News from May 2017
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup of three legislative bills including the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Indiana Man Indicted for Running Fraudulent Return Preparation Business and Obstructing the Internal Revenue Laws.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced the creation of the Indian Health Service (IHS) Task Force. Reps. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Raul Ruiz (D-CA) will co-chair the bipartisan task force, which is composed of 14 members both on and off the committee.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: A man has entered a guilty plea in federal court to charges including attempted murder and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. DeZay M. Ely, age 28, was arrested last August for the July 2016 shooting of a teen in Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to begin the process to roll back net neutrality protections.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup of three legislative bills including the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017...
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, wrote Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to request information about the recent dismissal of nine members of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), a major scientific review board within the agency.
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement following the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) vote on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that begins the process of returning the internet to its previous Title I classification.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTRUM COSTON, 34, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of possession of a firearm by a felon and one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base (“crack").
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Helen Jackson, 50, of Hornell, NY, pleaded guilty to wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Oregon woman has been charged with four counts of embezzlement.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2017
Release: Washington—The Department of Energy today announced $5 million to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing nuclear engineering degrees and other nuclear science and engineering programs relevant to nuclear energy. The awards include 58 undergraduate scholarships and 31 graduate-level fellowships for students at U.S. colleges and universities.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Save the date for the free 37th annual Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park Cultural Festival & BioBlitz, Saturday, July 8, 2017, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at Kilauea Military Camp.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -In light of new revelations last night in the New York Times that the Trump transition team was informed about ongoing investigations of Lt. General Michael Flynn before naming him National Security Advisor, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight...
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: As a result of dry grass contributing to high fire danger in the lower elevations of Zion National Park, restrictions are being instituted prohibiting campfires in Zion Canyon and smoking in vegetated areas. These restrictions will be in effect starting at12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 and will...
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, issued the following statements after President Trump signed H. J. Res 66 into law. Authored by Rep. Walberg, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Franklin Renan Euceda, a/k/a “Nathaniel Fuentes," “Nathanael Ortiz," and “Nathanael Ortiz-Fuentes," was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about May 10, 2016, Euceda, an alien, and native and citizen of Honduras, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about June 26, 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: Through my time here in Congress, I have seen many legislative fights and stood up against many injustices. And yet through it all I have always found comfort in the values and ideals of this great nation.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a markup examining two bipartisan public health bills, and legislation to reauthorize the FDA’s user fee programs.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement following the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) vote on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that begins the process of returning the internet to its previous Title I classification.
