News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Fred Gilliard, a/k/a “Dr. Gilliard," age 76, of Augusta, Georgia, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to drug distribution, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Bipartisan committee leaders sent letters last week to two regional drug distributors, Miami-Luken and H.D. Smith, expanding on its ongoing investigation into alleged pill dumping in the state of West Virginia. The letters were sent by full committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), full committee Ranking...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled “Closing the Digital Divide: Broadband Infrastructure Solutions:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cesar Rascon Sierra, 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in Santa Fe, N.M., to 24 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Sierra will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 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 Energy markup of “H.R. 3477, Ceiling Fan Energy Conservation Harmonization Act:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Madam Chair, thank you for holding this hearing on proposals to improve the administration of our federal tax system. Today, we will hear suggestions from our colleagues on how to improve IRS operations and taxpayer services.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Implementation of the Compounding Quality Act"
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) are working to expand rural communities’ access to treatment for opioid addiction. While current law requires a doctor or nurse to see a patient in person before writing a prescription for a controlled...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement leading up to President Trump’s State of the Union Address in which he will begin to unveil his infrastructure proposal that rolls back environmental safeguards and lacks any new funding for our nation’s infrastructure...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), questioned Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt at a committee hearing titled “Oversight Hearing to Receive Testimony from Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt."
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today delivered the following remarks at a launch event for Trade For America. Brady joined leaders in the agriculture, manufacturing, and business communities to speak about the importance of trade and how it improves the lives of the American people.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 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 Energy markup of “H.R. 3477, Ceiling Fan Energy Conservation Harmonization Act:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement leading up to President Trump’s State of the Union Address in which he will begin to unveil his infrastructure proposal that rolls back environmental safeguards and lacks any new funding for our nation’s infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - United States Attorney William C. Lamar and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge at the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that Ricky Robertson a.k.a. “Slick Rick" and Ladarius Jackson, a.k.a. “Dee Don" were sentenced on sex trafficking charges before Chief District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Previous Charges Include Drug Distribution, Robbery, And Carjacking.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled “Closing the Digital Divide: Broadband Infrastructure Solutions:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Paolo Aldorasi, 35, of London, was sentenced today to a prison term and now faces deportation for assaulting and attempting to rob a man who he forced into his sport utility vehicle in the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C., announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu, Andrew W. Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) implementation of Title I of the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
