News from November 2017
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 849, the Protecting Seniors Access to Medicare Act, by a vote of 307-111.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A convicted sex offender who failed to register as a sex offender when he moved to the Las Vegas area was sentenced to 60 months in prison today, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today held a hearing examining continued concerns over the Federal Select Agent Program’s oversight of dangerous pathogens. The program is jointly managed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Ranking Member Diana DeGette's (D-CO) prepared opening remarks for the Subcommittee hearing on, “How Secure are U.S. Bioresearch Labs? Preventing the Next Safety Lapse" are enclosed below...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Ranking Member Diana DeGette's (D-CO) prepared opening remarks for the Subcommittee hearing on, “How Secure are U.S. Bioresearch Labs? Preventing the Next Safety Lapse" are enclosed below...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today for illegally possessing the firearm he used to shoot another person.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today scheduled a hearing for Thursday, November 9, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “H.R.___, Farm Regulatory Certainty Act."
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing titled, “The 2017 Hurricane Season: A Review of Emergency Response and Energy Infrastructure Recovery Efforts:"
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 304, the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act, by unanimous consent.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing titled, “The 2017 Hurricane Season: A Review of Emergency Response and Energy Infrastructure Recovery Efforts:"
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after President Trump signed two Energy and Commerce Committee bills into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Roman Daniel Vanberkom, 31, of Gillette, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Oct. 27, 2017, for being a felon and unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of firearms. Vanberkom was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received 43 months of imprisonment, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a convicted felon to eleven years in prison for stealing more than a hundred firearms from a cargo train on the South Side of Chicago and selling more than a dozen of them.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after President Trump signed two Energy and Commerce Committee bills into law.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today held a hearing examining continued concerns over the Federal Select Agent Program’s oversight of dangerous pathogens. The program is jointly managed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: FBI Arrests Atlanta Police Murder Fugitive at Charleston, South Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today held a hearing examining continued concerns over the Federal Select Agent Program’s oversight of dangerous pathogens. The program is jointly managed by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury has convicted Mohammed “Kofi" Kwaning, age 36, of Laurel, Mark Dennis, age 30, of Laurel, and Charles Mensah, age 30, of the Bronx, New York, of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, as well as bank and wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft for a scheme to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 45-year-old Tyler man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 2, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing titled, “The 2017 Hurricane Season: A Review of Emergency Response and Energy Infrastructure Recovery Efforts:"
