News from September 2016
By USDA Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman and welcome, today’s witnesses, to the Agriculture Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Committee Member Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) unveiled a bipartisan proposal today that would strengthen the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority to regulate cosmetic products.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that Wednesday, a federal jury in New Bern found KRISTOPHER OWEN DANIELS, 31, of Wilmington guilty of four criminal charges: possession with the intent to distribute cocaine base (crack) and marijuana;...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: A picture may say 1,000 words, but these photos share a more concise message - we need #CuresNow. The EveryLife Foundation for Rare Diseases has launched a new campaign featuring patients from across the country and their families to share photos expressing why they personally need #CuresNow. And it shouldn’t come as a surprise to see that the nonpartisan initiative is garnering support from coast to coast.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: (LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Special Agent in Charge Timothy J. Plancon, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Detroit Field Office, joined by United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer, and Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad, announced a new collaborative investigation and prosecution program to remove heroin dealers from the streets of Louisville.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Is your car vulnerable to hackers? House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Commerce Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), earlier this week sent a letter on the subject to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 13, a federal grand jury in Williamsport indicted two federal inmates in cases resulting from separate incidents.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- The Bureau of Reclamation will be lowering the water level in Guernsey Reservoir as the 2016 irrigation season draws to a close.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-A Union Public Schools teacher was sentenced today to serve 13 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography followed by 20 years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that TERESA CHAGOLLA, age 54, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(C) and a DRUG FORFEITURE.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Jeffrey A. Ratliff, 60, of Chesapeake, pleaded guilty today to charges of theft of government property related to claiming over $447,000 in disability benefits from the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board (RBB) over the last 20 years.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Multiemployer pensions as we know them today have been around for nearly 70 years. Of course, a lot has changed since the 1940s, so it’s long past time to bring the pension system into the 21st century. With the right set of reforms, Congress can deliver positive change that will benefit workers, employers, ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Committee Member Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) unveiled a bipartisan proposal today that would strengthen the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority to regulate cosmetic products.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a joint hearing examining the state of Obamacare. Six years after the president signed Obamacare and three years since the law was enacted, patients sadly continue to experience fewer plan choices and face higher premium costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: A St. Lucie County resident pled guilty yesterday to distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Committee Member Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) unveiled a bipartisan proposal today that would strengthen the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority to regulate cosmetic products.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today sent a letter to Treasury Inspector General Eric Thorson asking a number of questions regarding the Treasury Department’s payment to Iran out of the “Judgement Fund" by the Department of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A correctional officer employed by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons at the Victorville Federal Correctional Complex has been arrested on federal civil rights and assault charges stemming from an incident in which she allegedly kicked a female inmate in the head.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - As Mother Nature changes her colors for the Fall season, Steamtown National Historic Site is scheduling train excursions through some of the most beautiful fall countryside of the nearby Pocono Mountains! A total of ten fall foliage excursions, all powered by historic diesel locomotives, are planned for this season.Reservations for all fall foliage excursions open at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, September 23.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, met with Wells Fargo President and Chief Operating Officer Tim Sloan to hear about steps the company is taking to hold employees and executives accountable for opening more than 2 million unauthorized accounts and to make whole the consumers who have suffered from these abuses.
