News from July 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Continuing her investigation into the opioid epidemic, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today revealed that Insys Therapeutics failed to report a previously undisclosed $100,000 in contributions to...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Friday, officers with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Washington Field Office concluded Eagle’s Shield, an enforcement operation targeting notable threats to public safety throughout Virginia and Washington, D.C. that resulted...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BRENT ANTHONY SILVA, age 52, a resident of Covington, Louisiana, was charged yesterday in a one-count bill of information with conspiracy to make false statements and representations in connection with a multiple employer welfare arrangement, in violation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced today to 14 years in federal prison for driving the getaway car during an armed robbery, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - ROBERT LEE PIERCE, 70, of Lawton, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty today to traveling from New Mexico to Oklahoma and failing to register as a sex offender, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: Today, the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), held a hearing to examine H.R. 4219, the Workflex in the 21st Century Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Natez Fisher, 18, of St. Louis, MO, was arrested this morning stemming from a two-count indictment charging him with one count of interference with commerce by robbery and one count of use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 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 Advertising and Marketing Practices within the Substance Use Treatment Industry:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) joined Bloomberg’s Kevin Cirilli to discuss tax reform 2.0 and trade, specifically the potential effects of tariffs on American businesses and workers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Treasury Department and IRS announced that the IRS will no longer require certain tax-exempt organizations to file personally-identifiable information about their donors.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Nearly 170 students from dozens of colleges and universities are gaining professional experience while contributing new ideas during internships with the Savannah River Site (SRS) management and operations contractor and EM’s national laboratory this summer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A former financial analyst for a north suburban medical waste management company used insider information to trade shares of the company ahead of an earnings report, according to a federal criminal charge filed today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Chicago.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM - On Monday evening the Hidden Valley Fire received approximately.49 inches of rain, further reducing fire behavior. The chance for monsoonal rains and thunderstorms will remain high in the afternoons through the end of the week and minimal fire behavior is predicted for the Hidden Valley Fire.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), held a hearing today examining practices within the substance use treatment industry, including advertising and marketing practices. The hearing builds on the committee’s ongoing bipartisan investigation into...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing on the nominations of Dan Michael Berkovitz to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and James E. Hubbard to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the release of the Ways and Means Committee’s tax framework...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a roundtable discussion with stakeholders to assess the impact of the Jones Act on consumer prices in Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nathan Bryce Moton, age 44, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B), punishable by not less than 5 nor more than 40 years imprisonment, up to a $5,000,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today published an op-ed, highlighting the need to secure our energy infrastructure against physical and cybersecurity threats and outlining the committee’s plan to help combat these threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2018
News Release: Delaware Man Sentenced to Prison for Production of Child Pornography.
