News from April 2019
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after 12 bills to lower health care and prescription drug costs for consumers were favorably reported to the full House of Representatives...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after Democrats passed six health care bills, with only Democratic support, in committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Shara Tyesha Cumins, age 29, of Opelika, Alabama, entered a guilty plea to Possession With Intent To Distribute Marijuana, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(D) and Title 18, United States Code, Section 2, punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000.00 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tyrone Butterfield, 39, Red Cliff, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 14 years in federal prison for distributing methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Was in a Car That Led Officers on a Chase in Waterloo.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jawanza Kevin Carter, age 22, of Laurel Maryland, pleaded guilty on April 3, 2019, to robbery involving controlled substances, and to carrying and brandishing of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, in connection with the armed robbery or attempted armed robbery of five pharmacies and the theft of tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Nathan E. Carpenter, of Elk Garden, West Virginia, has admitted to his involvement in a drug distribution conspiracy, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after Democrats passed six health care bills, with only Democratic support, in committee.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after 12 bills to lower health care and prescription drug costs for consumers were favorably reported to the full House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that VALERIE SCHONES, age 54, of Tucson, Arizona, a former employee of an undisclosed entity, XYZ Financial, LLC, also located in Tucson, Arizona, has pleaded guilty yesterday to a Bill of Information charging her with Making False Statements to a Financial Institution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Louis Coleman III was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston for the kidnapping resulting in the death of Jassy Correia.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved by a vote of 51-0 its version of the CREATES Act, which is cosponsored in the Senate by Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley. The CREATES Act addresses abuses by brand-name drug companies that keep lower-cost generic alternatives from...
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives in support of a resolution to end U.S. military support for the war in Yemen (S.Res.7), which later passed the House.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act, which prevents President Trump from withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, was favorably reported out of the Committee by a vote of 29-19...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-An Arizona man who repeatedly brought pound loads of methamphetamine to Billings for distribution was sentenced today to nine years in prison and five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: The FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force and Denver Police Department Need Your Help Identifying a Bank Robber.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Pipe Spring National Monument will waive its entrance fee on four days in 2019. The four entrance fee-free days for 2019 will be.
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Earlier today on the House Floor, Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) offered a motion that would have amended S.J. Res. 7 to oppose the global movement to boycott the State of Israel, known as the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Lead Republican McCaul issued the following statement in response to an accusation that the motion was offered solely to “kill" the resolution...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: Pecos, NM:- Join us for an evening under the wonderful Western sky on Saturday, May 4th at Pecos National Historical Park near the 18th century mission church.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2019
News Release: MISSOULA-A man who was arrested at a Bozeman shooting range on Wednesday after having recently traveled to Montana from New York appeared in court today on false statement and firearm charges. U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme for the District of Montana and Special Agent in Charge Paul Haertel of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Field Office made the announcement.
