News from October 2017
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and author of the U.S.-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act (P.L. 114-291), today welcomed the news that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide $2.5 million in additional hurricane...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Harry Bolton, 63, of Milford, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court today to 11 counts of cocaine distribution.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Fruita, CO - On Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, Colorado National Monument is pleased to host a presentation by Dan Neubaum on the bats of Colorado. Neubaum, with B.S. and M.S. degrees from Colorado State University, is a well-known as a researcher and presenter helping people understand the amazing world of bats. This free presentation begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Visitor Center auditorium.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at Democratic Forum titled, “Exploring Public Health Solutions to Gun Violence in America:"
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Judiciary Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today released the following statement in response to President Trump’s declaration that our nation’s opioid crisis is a public health emergency...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - In a letter today to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Assistant Democratic Leader Patty Murray (D-WA) urged her colleagues to oppose the nomination of Representative Jim Bridenstine (R-OK) to serve as Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national was indicted today in Worcester on a federal immigration charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Ways and Means Committee today announced they have come to a policy agreement on a permanent repeal of the annual limit on per-patient therapy expenditures in Medicare, commonly known as “therapy caps." The policy will repeal the therapy...
By State Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding implementation of sanctions legislation recently passed by Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today advanced three bills to the full committee that seek to promote renewable hydropower and modernize the nation’s energy infrastructure.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Thirty-one years ago this week, President Ronald Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law. This date is particularly significant: It was the last time Congress and the president worked together to overhaul our tax code.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute Marijuana was sentenced on Oct. 24, 2017, by Chief Judge, Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Defendants tied to a string of at least twelve violent robberies occurring at small stores across Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Fulton, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with illegally manufacturing a firearm suppressor, or “silencer," following his arrest for harassing a state worker involved with him losing custody of his children.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that William Salazar, age 41, of Gary, Indiana entered a guilty plea of conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity before Judge Phillip Simon.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
Release: SPOKANE, Wash. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented new and stronger carry-on baggage security screening procedures at Spokane International Airport (GEG).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that Aaron Clark, 36, of Little Rock, has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a major conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced a hearing before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Concerns over Federal Select Agent Program Oversight of Dangerous Pathogens."
