News from July 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Denali National Park and Preserve staff reminds visitors to use caution when stopping to view wildlife and that no photo opportunity is worth a human life.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks during Floor consideration of H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Chairman Lou Barletta (R-PA). Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. Hearing on “Independent Leasing Authorities: Increasing Oversight and Reducing Costs of Space Leased by Federal Agencies". July 6, 2016. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Since I became...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Disrupter Series: Health Care Apps."
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks during Floor consideration of H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Bobby Rush delivered the following opening remarks at the hearing titled, "A Review of EPA's Regulatory Activity During the Obama Administration: Energy and Industrial Sectors":
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Dr. Isaac Kojo Anakwah Thompson, M.D. 57, of Delray Beach, was sentenced today by United States District Judge William J. Zloch to 46 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release, after having previously pled guilty to health care fraud. Dr. Thompson was further ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $2,114,332.33.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Bobby Rush delivered the following opening remarks at the hearing titled, "A Review of EPA's Regulatory Activity During the Obama Administration: Energy and Industrial Sectors":
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD: The National Park Service announced today the selection of Xanterra Parks and Resorts, Inc., for the 10-year concession contract at Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Visitor services to be provided include food and beverage services, merchandise and souvenir sales, and parking garage services.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of CERCLA Implementation."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bruce Piaso, 34, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation from To’hajiilee, N.M., was arraigned today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., on an indictment charging him with assaulting a federal officer. Piaso entered a not guilty plea to the indictment and was ordered detained pending trial which has yet to be scheduled.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced that it will host a forum discussion on conscience rights on Friday, July 8, 2016, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The discussion will be led by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA). Participants...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: After an 18-month-long investigation, the Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee and the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold hearings this week on the Obama Administration’s unlawful funding of the cost sharing reduction (CSR) program, which was established under the Affordable Care Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Amado Becerra Lomas, age 33 of East Dublin, Georgia, was sentenced in Macon today to serve 10 years in prison for attempted online enticement of a minor announced United States Attorney G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III. The sentence was handed down by U.S. District Court Judge Marc T. Treadwell. Mr. Lomas’...
By State Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing to examine the challenges of Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. The hearing is entitled “Financially Rewarding Terrorism in the West Bank." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Support continues to build for a comprehensive opioid package following this morning’s meeting of House and Senate opioid conferees who gathered to consider legislative text for the conference report to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016. The draft legislative...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Diheim Young, age 32, of Brooklyn, New York has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to distribute heroin and crack cocaine in Rutland, Vermont as well as a conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking women between Vermont and New York. Young pleaded guilty to sex trafficking five women between 2012 and 2015. Four of the women were Vermont residents at the time they were trafficked.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, is pleased to announce broad food, agriculture, and retail support of his bipartisan agreement on a Biotechnology Disclosure Solution, which will be considered for a cloture vote later today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on July 5, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing examining the impacts of major EPA regulations on the American energy and industrial sectors. Since 2009, EPA has published over 3,900 rules, totaling 33,000 pages.
