News from December 2016
By EPA Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement on House passage of H. Res. 933, to authorize funding necessary to allow the Select Investigative Panel to complete its inquiry into America’s abortion industry and fetal tissue procurement entities...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement congratulating Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman-elect Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR). Rep. Walden will take over the committee in the 115th Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Last night, the innovation game-changer 21st Century Cures Act overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives 392-26. The wide bipartisan vote would not have been possible without the strong support of energized advocates in the patient and research communities across the nation. Massachusetts advocates support has been particularly unwavering, recognizing the importance of delivering #CuresNow to patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA - A Cumberland, Virginia resident, who previously pled guilty to one count of corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lychburg, announced United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The chief executive officer and managing director of two Middlesex County, New Jersey, companies today admitted recruiting foreign nationals to enroll at a “pay to stay" New Jersey college in order to fraudulently maintain his clients’ student visa status and obtain full-time work authorizations without having to attend classes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement on House passage of H. Res. 933, to authorize funding necessary to allow the Select Investigative Panel to complete its inquiry into America’s abortion industry and fetal tissue procurement entities...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Amaya Farms LLC satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By EPA Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement congratulating Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman-elect Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR). Rep. Walden will take over the committee in the 115th Congress.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today praised renewal of the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA), which ensures President-elect Donald J. Trump has the ability to reimpose the sanctions the Obama administration lifted to implement the Iran nuclear deal. The Senate extended ISA, which otherwise would expire at year’s end, by a vote of 99 to 0.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - The United States reached a settlement on Nov. 30, 2016, with Mountain States Health Alliance (MSHA), a not-for-profit health care organization based in Johnson City, Tenn., that operates 13 hospitals serving a 29-county region spanning northeast Tennessee, southwest Virginia...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today praised Major League Baseball (MLB) and the MLB Players Association for reportedly agreeing to ban the use of smokeless tobacco products by all new players in the league.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: In Letter to Trump Transition Team, Senators Call on New Administration to 'Maintain Momentum' on TSCA Reform
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Damon Derrall Pittman, 36, of Poplarville, entered a guilty plea today, before Chief District Judge Louis Guirola, to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following the announcement that Congressman Greg Walden (R-OR) will be the new Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Benjamin Winters, 35, Elmwood, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to six years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, with credit for 17 months for time spent in state custody on a revocation sentence related to this charge. Winters pleaded guilty to this charge on July 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man and a Boston man were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston for sex trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, December 8, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Mixed Martial Arts: Issues and Perspectives."
