News from July 2018
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Dina Titus (D-NV) sent a letter to the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing to consider the nominations of Dan Berkovitz and James Hubbard.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), held a hearing today to examine recently adopted state laws and policies that improve transparency of health care costs for consumers, making information more readily available. WHY: “According to the Centers...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Examining State Efforts to Improve Transparency of Health Care Costs for Consumers:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the July 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is requesting public comment on a proposal to increase fees for drive-in campgrounds beginning May 15, 2019. Current fees for the three campgrounds (Little Beaver, Twelvemile Beach, and Hurricane River) are $14.00 per night, and $16.00 per night for lakeside sites at...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on “Realizing the Benefits of Rural Broadband: Challenges and Solutions:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Fayetteville, AR - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Darrell Rosen, age 59, formerly of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced yesterday to 63 months in federal Prison followed by three years supervised release and ordered to pay a total...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral leaders today sent a letter to the CERT Coordination Center (CERT-CC) following up on concerns raised about coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) practices amid the Spectre and Meltdown cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Examining State Efforts to Improve Transparency of Health Care Costs for Consumers:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), held a hearing today to discuss the latest efforts to support broadband deployment and bridge the digital divide. #SubCommTech members received an update from the panel of expert witnesses about progress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday, a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging Johnny C. Black with committing an assault with a dangerous weapon by allegedly firing shots at a New Mexico State Police officer on Santa Clara Pueblo land. Black...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Examining State Efforts to Improve Transparency of Health Care Costs for Consumers:"
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bicameral leaders today sent a letter to the CERT Coordination Center (CERT-CC) following up on concerns raised about coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) practices amid the Spectre and Meltdown cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Today, six House and Senate Democrats released a disturbing new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that found only 43 percent of school districts nationwide tested for lead in their schools’ drinking water in 2016 and 2017, and of those that tested, 37 percent found elevated lead levels. GAO found that 41 percent of school districts did not test for lead, while 16 percent did not know.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on the Environment markup of “H.R. 3128, New Source Review Permitting Reform:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Paul D. Delacourt, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Los Angeles Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the indictment late yesterday of MICHAEL YIN, a/k/a “Shaohua Yin," on...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Today, six House and Senate Democrats released a disturbing new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that found only 43 percent of school districts nationwide tested for lead in their schools’ drinking water in 2016 and 2017, and of those that tested, 37 percent found elevated lead levels. GAO found that 41 percent of school districts did not test for lead, while 16 percent did not know.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Idabeel Rios-Zendejas, 37, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torreson to time served (81 days) for entering the United States after being removed or deported. Rios-Zendejas pled guilty on May 22, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2018
News Release: This week, the House is expected to consider the FY 2019 Financial Service and General Government appropriations bill as part of a two-bill minibus. This Republican bill zeroes out election security grants, rolls back Dodd-Frank consumer protections, and includes radical Republican poison pill riders. Some of the worst provisions of the Financial Services and General Government division include that it.
