News from February 2018
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan committee leaders sent follow-up letters today to McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen, expanding on its ongoing investigation into alleged pill dumping in the state of West Virginia. Combined, these letters pose more than 70 questions and include more than 40 requests for documents about the distributors’ efforts during the height of the opioid epidemic in West Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - As part of its commitment to serve local communities through the management of sustainable, working public lands, the Bureau of Land Management has analyzed a proposed bentonite mining expansion project located in Big Horn County. The BLM Cody Field Office will accept comments on the environmental assessment (EA) through March 16, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today calling for a top-down review of HHS to confront the ethical lapses and conflicts of interest that have plagued the department over the past year. Secretary Azar is scheduled to appear before the Energy and Commerce Committee later today for a hearing on the Trump Administration’s budget proposal.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services:"
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan committee leaders sent follow-up letters today to McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen, expanding on its ongoing investigation into alleged pill dumping in the state of West Virginia. Combined, these letters pose more than 70 questions and include more than 40 requests for documents about the distributors’ efforts during the height of the opioid epidemic in West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury indicted Clint D. Jackson, 26, of Elyria, on multiple firearms and narcotics offenses, said United States Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Last April, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, led the charge for his agency to approve rules allowing television broadcasters to greatly increase the number of stations they own. A few weeks later, Sinclair Broadcasting announced a blockbuster $3.9 billion deal to buy Tribune Media - a deal those new rules made possible.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury today found Eugene Willis (24, Orlando) guilty of carjacking and brandishing a firearm in relation to a carjacking. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of seven years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Darryl William Young, age 66, of Seattle, Washington, was sentenced for three counts of Armed Bank Robbery and two counts of Bank Robbery. United States District Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr. sentenced...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services:"
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Bipartisan committee leaders sent follow-up letters today to McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen, expanding on its ongoing investigation into alleged pill dumping in the state of West Virginia. Combined, these letters pose more than 70 questions and include more than 40 requests for documents about the distributors’ efforts during the height of the opioid epidemic in West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted an Illinois attorney of fraudulently obtaining loans related to the purchase, maintenance and sale of properties on Chicago’s South Side.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
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 held an oversight hearing on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) titled, “State of the CFTC: Examining Pending Rules, Cryptocurrency Regulation, and Cross-Border Agreements."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Last April, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, led the charge for his agency to approve rules allowing television broadcasters to greatly increase the number of stations they own. A few weeks later, Sinclair Broadcasting announced a blockbuster $3.9 billion deal to buy Tribune Media - a deal those new rules made possible.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan committee leaders sent follow-up letters today to McKesson, Cardinal Health, and AmerisourceBergen, expanding on its ongoing investigation into alleged pill dumping in the state of West Virginia. Combined, these letters pose more than 70 questions and include more than 40 requests for documents about the distributors’ efforts during the height of the opioid epidemic in West Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing continuing its record of oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) sent a letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Kevin J. McIntyre today requesting an update on environmental safety concerns related to construction of the Rover Pipeline.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Oversight of the Department of Health and Human Services:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for robbing the same Capital One Bank in Newark twice, including once in an armed robbery, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
