News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Douglas Burt, 20, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 204 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on a second degree murder charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today welcomed the approval of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Seven individuals, including four residents of Western Pennsylvania, two from Texas, and one from Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics and money laundering laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released a new video documenting the refusal by Republicans to accept the FBI’s unanimous decision not to prosecute former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today held a hearing examining ways to strengthen our national trauma system. The hearing reviewed a recent report and recommendations by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), as well as H.R. 4365, the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016, authored by committee member Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC).
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regarding its anti-doping efforts heading into the Olympic Games in Rio next month. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Within 25 years, the United States could produce enough biomass to support a bioeconomy, including renewable aquatic and terrestrial biomass resources that could be used for energy and to develop products for economic, environmental, social, and national security benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced that Geoffrey McIntosh, 36, was sentenced by United States District Judge Paul Barbadoro to serve 100 months in federal prison for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man previously convicted of rape was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Springfield today in connection with unlawfully selling a firearm and ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, met with the President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Senator Carper’s Washington, D.C. office to discuss ongoing efforts to improve security and economic opportunities...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Full Committee markup of H.R. 5510, FTC Process and Transparency Reform Act of 2016; H.R. 5111, Consumer Review Fairness Act; H.R. 5092, Reinforcing American Made Products Act; H.R. 5104, Better...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory A. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that the grand jury has returned an indictment against Geffrey Sawtelle (age: 62) of Neshkoro, Wisconsin, charging him with executing a scheme to defraud Farmers Exchange Bank, a federally insured financial institution operating at various Wisconsin locations, and related criminal charges.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Bayfield, WI - During severe thunderstorms that caused widespread flooding in the region Monday night, the National Park Service (NPS) and Coast Guard (USCG) personnel rescued 11 kayakers that capsized and washed up on Sand Island within the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. At about 8pm on Monday...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to examine ways to improve and reform the Stark Law...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Lancaster, Pennsylvania, man today admitted transporting goods stolen through a string of commercial burglaries in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that today in federal court today, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced ROGER WATSON, III, 29, of Smithfield, North Carolina to 102 months followed by 3 years supervised release for possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a report.pdf) today concluding that recent Republican allegations of $500 million of waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Lifeline program are based on faulty assumptions and bad data.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission:"
