News from January 2017
By EPA Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after President Trump took executive action to reinstate the Mexico City Policy, which will ban the performing and promotion of abortion services for all foreign non-governmental organizations.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a wild horse and burro adoption event in Carrizo Springs, Texas, February 3-4, 2017. The two-day event at the Dimmit County Rodeo Arena will feature dozens of outstanding animals. The event will take place at the Dimmit County Rodeo Arena from noon - 6:00pm...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today announced that Lee Slater has been named Director of Outreach and Member Services for the committee.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Ajit Pai was designated to serve as the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after President Trump took executive action to reinstate the Mexico City Policy, which will ban the performing and promotion of abortion services for all foreign non-governmental organizations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai today congratulating him on his appointment, and asking him to make several commitments that will increase the likelihood of a successful term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Matthew J. Etre, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Boston, today announced the five individuals were arrested over the weekend in Hartford and charged with federal heroin trafficking offenses.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Ajit Pai was designated to serve as the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
By EPA Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed eleven Energy and Commerce Committee bills, furthering the committee’s proven record of success. The House of Representatives passed four public health bills and two other committee bills earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Wendell White, 52, of Rumford, Maine, and formerly of Bangor, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as “crack.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray, D-Wash., sent a letter to Congressman Tom Price, nominee to be Secretary of the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), asking for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - LAQUINTA Q. FISHER, a former tax return preparer from Lawton, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve 18 months in federal prison for an earned income credit tax fraud scheme involving false reporting of income and dependents, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Chesterfield County, Virginia, woman was cited on state weapons charges after she was stopped by Transportation Security Administration officers at the Richmond International Airport (RIC) checkpoint on Friday, Jan. 20, when TSA officers detected a.40 caliber handgun loaded with nine bullets, including one in the chamber of the gun.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed eleven Energy and Commerce Committee bills, furthering the committee’s proven record of success. The House of Representatives passed four public health bills and two other committee bills earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - According to signed documents filed in U.S. District Court in Providence today, Raymond E. Gallison, Jr., 64, of Bristol, R.I., a former member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives and House Finance Committee Chairman, has agreed to plead guilty to federal mail fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and filing false tax return charges.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Rep. Pompeo has been a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee since 2011.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Ajit Pai was designated to serve as the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - Seven alleged members of a drug trafficking organization responsible for shipping large quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and Xanax across West Tennessee have been charged in a 16-count indictment. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man was arrested for his role in one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Jan. 23, 2017, Robert Dwayne Humburd IIIheather Jean Reekr, age 38, formerly of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 96 months in prison for two counts of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
