News from July 2016
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing today to assess the Iran nuclear deal one year later, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reaffirmed his opposition to the agreement and warned against U.S. policy being held hostage by Iranian threats to walk away from ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today said the Senate “can and must" pass the bipartisan Family First Prevention Services Act when Congress returns to its legislative agenda in the fall.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: View Citations here. Background: Materion Brush is a subsidiary of Materion Corp., a global manufacturer of advanced material solutions and services. The company serves customers in 50 countries and has operating, service centers and offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia. Materion Corp.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Owner of Costa Rican Call Center and Two Others Plead Guilty to Defrauding Elderly through Offshore Sweepstakes Scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee yesterday held a business meeting to approve a wide array of legislative proposals. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, thanked her committee colleagues for their hard work over the past 18 months, which resulted in a broad, bipartisan energy bill, as well as their continued engagement on other committee priorities, including yesterday’s consideration of 43 bills.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), has advanced four bills that will modernize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the 21st century. Throughout the last year, the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) has conducted the Disrupter Series to discover how federal policies both help and hinder the growth of emerging technologies and the jobs they create.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), has advanced four bills that will modernize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the 21st century. Throughout the last year, the Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) has conducted the Disrupter Series to discover how federal policies both help and hinder the growth of emerging technologies and the jobs they create.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn and Majority Members of the Select Investigative Panel today released their Interim Update to the House of Representatives at a press conference with House Majority Whip Steve Scalise.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Gerhard L. Felts, aka Gary Felts, age 61, from Kingsley, Iowa, pled guilty on July 13, 2016 to one count of making false statements to the United States, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1001. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed on June 6, 2016, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following the Senate’s passage of the opioid package yesterday, by a vote of 92 to 2, the bill was sent today to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) before moving to the White House for the president’s signature. The House passed the package on July 8, by a vote of 407 to 5.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: I want to thank the Majority Whip - Steve Scalise - for joining us today to accept this Interim Update as prepared by the Select Investigative Panel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Gregory L. Clark, age 26, of Troy, New York, was indicted yesterday for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Damien Henry Thomas, age 37, of Langley Park, Maryland, today to 15 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute crack and powder cocaine, and for being a felon in possession of a ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler urging the FCC to take action to ensure that the United States maintains its global leadership in mobile broadband distribution and innovation.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed 13 bipartisan measures, including new sanctions on Syria’s Assad regime and a resolution supporting a robust military assistance package for Israel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio, a federal judge has sentenced 43-year-old former Del Rio police officer Raymond Villarreal to seven years in federal prison for drug distribution announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following the Senate’s passage of the opioid package yesterday, by a vote of 92 to 2, the bill was sent today to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) before moving to the White House for the president’s signature. The House passed the package on July 8, by a vote of 407 to 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced that KALEIL ISAZA TUZMAN, the former Chairman and CEO of KIT digital (“KITD"), was extradited from Colombia, where he had been arrested in September 2015 for market manipulation and accounting fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER CONDI, age 38, of Quinton, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, on two (2) separate occasions, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e)(1) and POSSESSION OF FIREARM WITH OBLITERATED SERIAL NUMBER, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(k) and 924(a)(1).
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced his landmark legislation to protect the use of agriculture biotechnology and to ensure consumers have greater access to food information was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
