News from March 2018
By EPA Newswire | Mar 14, 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 “Reauthorization of Animal Drug User Fees: ADUFA and AGDUFA:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) attended a rally outside of the U.S. Capitol to support students across the country who staged protests demanding Congress address gun violence in America, before speaking on the House floor on the STOP School Violence Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 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 “Reauthorization of Animal Drug User Fees: ADUFA and AGDUFA:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Deadline to File Claim with Federal Trade Commission for Refund from Western Union Extended to May 31The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa is reminding consumers that if they lost money to a scammer through Western Union between Jan.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) led a letter urging Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt to reinstate the longstanding policy requiring the nation's ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Let me start by saying that I’m very pleased to be a member of this committee and I’m hopeful that by working together on a bipartisan basis we can address the multiemployer pension crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Defendant Preyed on Young California Teen, Inducing her to send Images over Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to two years in prison and two years supervised release on his conviction of mail fraud, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 14, 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), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing on the Agriculture Creates Real Employment (ACRE) Act.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today requesting that he schedule a hearing on Cigna’s recently proposed plan to acquire Express Scripts for $67 billion and CVS’s proposed merger with Aetna for $69 billion that was announced last December.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: John Hamilton, the former top elected official of the 18,000 member Operating Engineers Local 324, International Union of Operating Engineers, was sentenced to twenty-four months in prison today for conspiring to commit extortion, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore has jobs for eight teenagers this summer. The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program is a work-learn-earn program for 15-18 year-olds. Deadline to apply is April 27, 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a two-day hearing, beginning on Wednesday, March 21, 2018, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combating the Opioid Crisis: Prevention and Public Health Solutions." The second day of the hearing will be held on Thursday, March 22, 2018, at 10 a.m. in the same room.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - On Dec. 2, 2017 Kane County Sheriff’s Department deputies were dispatched to 44W307 Plank Rd in unincorporated Burlington Township for a report of a subject who may have overdosed. The subject, later identified as William Barrett, was pronounced deceased at the scene. Toxicology reports indicate that he died from an overdose from heroin that contained a fentanyl compound.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Transport Logistics International Inc. (TLI), a Maryland-based company that provides services for the transportation of nuclear materials to customers in the United States and abroad, agreed to resolve criminal charges in connection with a scheme that involved the bribery of an...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a two-day hearing, beginning on Wednesday, March 21, 2018, at 9 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combating the Opioid Crisis: Prevention and Public Health Solutions." The second day of the hearing will be held on Thursday, March 22, 2018, at 10 a.m. in the same room.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: PIKEVILLE, Ky. - A Wheelwright, Ky. man, David Glenn Boyd, 53, has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison, to be followed by a Life term of supervised release, for knowingly distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania resident and a Florida resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury has filed an indictment charging Kevin Vigil, 52, a non-Indian man from Espanola, N.M., with child sexual abuse offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson, Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and Special Agent in Charge William McClure of District IV of the BIA’s Office of Justice Services.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
Release: Japan is the fourth-largest global market for U.S. agriculture and the top Asian market for U.S. exports of consumer-oriented food products. Each year, it’s also the site of Asia’s largest annual food and beverage trade show, FOODEX, which offers U.S. exhibitors access to Japan’s $770 billion food and beverage market and to many other lucrative Asian markets as well.
