News from June 2016
By EPA Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today welcomed recent action by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to both ease the procedural challenges doctors and patients must navigate when seeking access to investigational treatments.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on important bipartisan pipeline safety legislation this week. Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today released a fact sheet of a bipartisan House...

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on important bipartisan pipeline safety legislation this week. Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today released a fact sheet of a bipartisan House...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -The National Park Service (NPS) and the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) announced at last night's Star Party that Grand Canyon National Park is now a Provisional IDA International Dark Sky Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today welcomed recent action by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to both ease the procedural challenges doctors and patients must navigate when seeking access to investigational treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Michael Vincent Woodbury Bent, 37, Dennis Sharkey II, 50, Adam Fullbright, 37, Chris Nauman, 30, John Husemann, 51 all of Dubuque, Iowa, Heather Harris, 37, Zach Miller, 27, and Jacob Burton, 35, all of Waterloo, Iowa, and Edward Behrens, 50, of Benton, Wisconsin, have been charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Bent and Fullbright have been charged with an additional count of conspiracy to commit money laundering..

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: TUESDAY, JUNE 7. 4: 0 p.m. Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law. Hearing on: “International Antitrust Enforcement: China and Beyond". Witnesses: * Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen, Federal Trade Commission. * Mr. Mark Cohen, Senior Counsel, United States Patent and Trademark ...

By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on important bipartisan pipeline safety legislation this week. Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today released a fact sheet of a bipartisan House...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a markup on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, at 5 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a series of bills that seek to modernize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JASON PAUL SMITH pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to communicating a hoax threat to bomb the Statue of Liberty that resulted in the evacuation of more than 3,200 people from Liberty Island in New York Harbor. SMITH pled guilty to a one-count Indictment before U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on important bipartisan pipeline safety legislation this week. Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today released a fact sheet of a bipartisan House...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on important bipartisan pipeline safety legislation this week. Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today released a fact sheet of a bipartisan House...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced Monday to life in federal prison for drug trafficking, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Kansas man pleaded guilty today to six counts of exporting and attempting to export firearms illegally from the United States to individuals located in other countries, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall of the District of Kansas.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: Preparations: Tropical Storm Colin formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, and is predicted to take a northeasterly path over the next few days. Early regional forecasts show the storm producing heavy rains with the potential for localized flooding, sustained high winds, and strong rip currents. Due...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Valencia, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of interference with commerce by extortion and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOL Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | June 6, 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on June 6, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a markup on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, at 5 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a series of bills that seek to modernize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ...

By US DOT Newswire | Jun 6, 2016
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on important bipartisan pipeline safety legislation this week. Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a fact sheet of a bipartisan House amendment...