News from November 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding NIH-sponsored emergency medical research that is conducted without informed consent. The letter follows up on a June 2017 letter to the NIH.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing entitled, “Response and Recovery to Environmental Concerns from the 2017 Hurricane Season." Today’s #SubEnvironment hearing marked the third hearing the committee has held examining the recent series of unprecedented hurricanes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - On November 8, 2017, a resident of DuBois, Pa. was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of distribution and possession of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: California Resident Sentenced to Prison for Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns Using Stolen IDs of Homeless and Unemployed Individuals.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today gave the following remarks on Finance Committee Republicans’ delay in introducing a modified version of their tax plan, which was expected to be offered by Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeks Violent and Armed Commercial Robbery Crew- Striking Again in Roswell, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Crimes Unfolded in Less Than an Hour.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Environment hearing on “Response and Recovery to Environmental Concerns from the 2017 Hurricane Season:"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Defendant Also Operated Fraudulent Tax Preparation Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE - Diep Vo, aka Nancy Vo, was sentenced to 54 months in prison today for conspiring to file false claims for tax refunds, submitting false claims for tax refunds, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: VAN BUREN MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways Superintendent Larry Johnson announces today that the Preliminary Alternatives for the Roads and Trails Management Plan will be available for public review and comment beginning on November 17. The Preliminary Alternatives may be reviewed online at.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing entitled, “Response and Recovery to Environmental Concerns from the 2017 Hurricane Season." Today’s #SubEnvironment hearing marked the third hearing the committee has held examining the recent series of unprecedented hurricanes.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the individual mandate repeal being added to the GOP tax bill...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Congressman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. today raising questions over reports that NIH has quietly discontinued dedicated funding for gun violence...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently received its 12,000th shipment of transuranic (TRU) waste for disposal since opening in 1999.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Who Robbed Albuquerque Bank May Have Fled in Red Car.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Severino Luna Vera, age 43, and his son Joel Oswaldo Luna Pedroza, age 21, both citizens of Mexico, were each sentenced today to time served (47 days in jail) for illegal re-entry into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston of multiple counts of tax fraud and obstructing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: On Friday, Dec. 1, and on Saturday, Dec. 2, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park will present a Christmas Open House at the Cravens House, located on Lookout Mountain. The house will be decorated in a manner very similar to the Civil War era. This special holiday...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- On Friday, November 10 at approximately noon, the National Park Service located a body below the rim on the Rim Trail, between Pipe Creek and Mather Point.
