News from October 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after President Trump formally declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Christopher T. Fowler, 47, of Rootstown Township, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By Commerce 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 EPA 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 Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Guatemalan citizen confessed Thursday to transporting three kilograms of heroin that had been coated in chocolate in a failed attempt to bring the drugs undetected through Newark Liberty International Airport. This confession is a result of an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) with assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: With cybersecurity for the energy sector emerging as one of the most serious challenges associated with grid modernization and infrastructure protection, maintaining a robust pipeline of cutting-edge technologies is essential to helping the energy sector continue adapting to the changing cyber landscape.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging six people with conspiring to commit bank and wire fraud, conspiring to traffic in contraband cigarettes, aggravated identity theft, and access device fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, James W. Werner, Special Agent in Charge of the South Central Field Office of the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of the Inspector General (VAOIG), and Anthony Lemons, Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 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...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today is pleased to announce that Gregory Ibach was approved by the U.S. Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Bill Frank Blanchard, 53, of Escondido, California, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Oct. 26, 2017, for manufacturing counterfeit obligations. Blanchard was arrested in Laramie, Wyoming. He received 37 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $80.00 in restitution and a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the U.S. Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The founder and majority owner of Insys Therapeutics Inc. was arrested today and charged with leading a nationwide conspiracy to profit by using bribes and fraud to cause the illegal distribution of a Fentanyl spray intended for cancer patients experiencing breakthrough pain.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of FirstNet: State Perspectives."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Allan Watson, 36, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The defendant was also ordered to forfeit two firearms and rounds of ammunition seized at the time of his arrest.
By DOE 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 Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, penned an op-ed ahead of President Trump’s expected announcement today regarding the recommendation from his own opioid commission to declare the opioid epidemic a national emergency. As Cummings wrote...
By EPA 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 Commerce Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 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...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2017
News Release: Over 2,000 objects now digitally available on the Yosemite Museum’s Web Catalog.
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.
