News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Sept. 20, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Bryant Waupoose, Sr. (age: 47) of Keshena, Wisconsin, charging him with Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Harm in violation...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a joint Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing titled “Midterm Review and Update on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Motor Vehicles:"
By EPA Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a joint Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing titled “Midterm Review and Update on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Motor Vehicles:"
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Sean Miller, 28, was sentenced to serve 60 months in prison following his conviction on a charge of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: As a very busy fire season winds down in Wyoming, the BLM Wind River/Bighorn Basin District thanks the local communities for their support.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky, - A Lexington man, who will appear in Court this afternoon, has been charged with possession with intent to distribute large quantities of fentanyl in Fayette County.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Sept. 20, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Bryant Waupoose, Sr. (age: 47) of Keshena, Wisconsin, charging him with Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Harm in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Operating a Motor Vehicle Under the Influence of Alcohol with a Minor Present in the Motor Vehicle was sentenced on Sept. 16, 2016, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “Effective Enforcement of U.S. Trade Laws" on Tuesday, Sept. 27, at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building. The hearing will...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man charged with Simple Assault pled guilty and was sentenced on Sept. 16, 2016, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted five defendants on charges arising from a scheme whereby physicians and administrative personnel associated with a Maryland pain management practice agreed to refer urine specimens to a testing lab for evaluation in return for $1.37 million in kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: JACKSON, Miss. - Multiple defendants face conspiracy and drug charges in the Southern District of Mississippi, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam. The multi-count indictment is the result of a two-year investigation by the federal Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) in this district.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Committee Member Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) applauded the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee for holding a hearing today on cosmetic product safety. The two lawmakers announced a bipartisan proposal in the House last week to strengthen the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) authority to regulate cosmetic products.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 22, 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 “Modernizing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act":
By EPA Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) partnered with other safe drinking water advocates in the House today to introduce the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 2016. The bill would...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Savannah, GA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Georgia partnered with Dismas Charities, Savannah to host a roundtable discussion on heroin and opioid abuse. This event was part of the Department of Justice’s inaugural National Heroin and Opioid Awareness Week, taking...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIELLE FAUX, 48, of Weston, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of obstruction of a federal audit, and one count of making false statement on a federal income tax return.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and the Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), today held a hearing examining car and truck efficiency standards set by both the EPA and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that could have significant economic impacts on consumers.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, held a hearing Thursday on issues of medical innovation underlying his Trickett Wendler Right To Try Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today announced that Friday’s hearing has been postponed.
