News from April 2019
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after H.R. 1644, the Save the Internet Act, passed on the floor of the House of Representatives by a vote of 232-190...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Summer camps are legally required to make reasonable accommodations to accept children with disabilities, U.S. Attorney Christina E. Nolan announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Michael Bonds, 60 of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was charged today by Information with conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and a violation of the Travel Act arising from his participation in a bribery scheme...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after H.R. 1644, the Save the Internet Act, passed on the floor of the House of Representatives by a vote of 232-190...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: DURANGO -- After a 3-year investigation into the embezzlement of funds from the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, 16 defendants have been convicted and sentenced for their illegal conduct to include each defendant participating in taking a substantial amount of money from the tribe that was not due to them, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two brothers have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and conspiracy to smuggle bulk cash from Mexico, announced DEA Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy and U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Mario Luis Quiroga Trevino, 43, a Mexican national who was illegally residing in Laredo, and his brother Javier Quiroga, 48, of Laredo, pleaded guilty Nov. 6, 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the Committee prepares to reauthorize federal child nutrition programs, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing titled, “Perspectives on Child Nutrition Reauthorization."
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Last week, we heard a lot of different opinions on why the list price of insulin has increased significantly over the past decade. One of the doctors on the panel commented that she believed that high list prices primarily benefit the pharmaceutical companies. Another doctor argued that the current rebating...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Thursday, April 25 in Meeker at the Rio Blanco County Fairgrounds, 700 Sulphur Creek Road.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent the following letter to Treasury Security Steven Mnuchin after House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) requested six years of the President’s tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On April 8, 2019, Shad Richard Thompson, 43, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to serve 222 months (18.5 years) in prison and pay $4,784 in restitution. Thompson was convicted of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and bank robbery following a jury trial. Thompson’s term of imprisonment will be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: JACKSON, MS-FBI Jackson Division Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze is pleased to announce Sunflower Landing as Mississippi’s recipient of the 2018 FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. Sunflower Landing was selected for initiating a positive impact on youth affected by addiction.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
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 committee business meeting.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pled guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Steven Craig Coleman, 31, pled guilty before Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber to possessing heroin with intent to distribute. Coleman has a 2016 conviction...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: Last week, we heard a lot of different opinions on why the list price of insulin has increased significantly over the past decade. One of the doctors on the panel commented that she believed that high list prices primarily benefit the pharmaceutical companies. Another doctor argued that the current rebating...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement praising President Trump's executive order Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth. Section 3 of the executive order aims to specifically improve the water quality certification process.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after President Trump signed two executive orders prioritizing energy infrastructure and streamlining the permitting process for domestic and cross-border projects.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry issued the following statement after the signing of President Trump’s Executive Orders promoting energy infrastructure, economic growth and cross border permitting.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement after Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) introduced his latest, revamped, one-size-fits all, government run, health care plan...
