News from November 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection hearing titled, “Perspectives on Mixed Martial Arts:"
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of how federal agencies use predictive models to inform their decision-making. Signing the letter was: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: Bradley Mark Cohen, 61, of Ottsville, PA, with sentenced today to 18 months in prison, following his July 12, 2017 plea of guilty to four counts of filing false tax returns and three counts of structuring cash deposits to avoid a reporting requirement, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. Cohen was also ordered to pay restitution of over $84,000 in back taxes to the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Arizona Strip Field Office invites public comments until December 6, 2017, on the scope of the analysis and issues to consider for the proposed R & J Stone LLC (R & J), R H B Dixie Bell Mine, also known as the “Glitter Mine".
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a study examining the epidemiology of antibiotic resistant bacteria, commonly known as “superbugs." Signing the letter was: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke on the Senate floor to voice his strong opposition to the nomination of Bill Wehrum to lead the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Office of Air and Radiation - a position to which ...
By State Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: A 23-count indictment was filed charging three Akron women with defrauding the U.S. Department of Education out of $1.8 million through a scheme where they enrolled inmates and people whose identities they stole in an Arizona community college in order to obtain financial aid, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Roberto Torner, age 44 and Liza Robles, age 33, both of Freeland, Pennsylvania, and David Alzugaray-Lugones, age 48, of Weatherly, Pennsylvania, were charged on November 7, 2017, by a federal grand jury with various drug trafficking and firearms offenses in Luzerne County.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing entitled, “H.R.___, Farm Regulatory Certainty Act."
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today examining the regulatory and competitive framework of the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) industry and discussing H.R. 44, the Muhammad Ali Expansion Act, introduced by #SubDCCP member Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK).
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today examining the regulatory and competitive framework of the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) industry and discussing H.R. 44, the Muhammad Ali Expansion Act, introduced by #SubDCCP member Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio, federal authorities filed a criminal complaint against three individuals for their alleged roles in a farm loan fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, and Rep. Don Young, all R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the State of Alaska, the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC), China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), CIC Capital Corporation (CIC Capital), and the Bank of China (BOC) announced the signing of a joint development agreement to advance the Alaska LNG project.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of how federal agencies use predictive models to inform their decision-making. Signing the letter was: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - at the nomination hearing to consider Glen Smith to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board, and Stephen Vaden to be General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: Rock Island, Ill. - Joaquin Louis Cook, 36, of Mesa, Ariz., has been sentenced to 136 months (11 years, 4 months) in federal prison for transporting and possessing child pornography. Cook appeared yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sara Darrow in Rock Island. Upon release from prison, Judge Darrow ordered that Cook remain on supervised release for a 30-year term.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing entitled, “H.R.___, Farm Regulatory Certainty Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2017
News Release: A New Jersey man was sentenced to three months in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and to aiding and abetting the filing of false claims for tax refunds, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
