News from December 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is joining Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) for a video series aimed at providing the facts on Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Racketeering Acts Include Multiple Murders, Shootings, and Drug Trafficking in Clarksville.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Authorities Need Help Identifying Serial Bank Robber.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Hearing Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Securing the U.S. Drug Supply Chain: Oversight of FDA’s Foreign Inspection Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) fiscal year (FY) 2019 final statistics show a significant increase in the number of inspections and a record amount of compliance assistance to further the mission of ensuring that employers provide workplaces free of hazards.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Department of Justice Announces Indictment Charging Russians, Italians and Others With Attempting to Evade Security Sanctions.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 10:30 am in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Proposals to Achieve Universal Health Care Coverage."
By EPA Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Hearing Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Securing the U.S. Drug Supply Chain: Oversight of FDA’s Foreign Inspection Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: DENVER - United States Attorney Jason R. Dunn announced that Capco, LLC (Capco), a manufacturer based in Grand Junction, Colorado, will pay the United States over $1 million to resolve civil allegations that it defrauded the United States Army in connection with contracts to manufacture weapons.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee hearing on the future of U.S. policy towards Russia, with witness testimony from the Honorable David Hale, undersecretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. Department of State, and the Honorable Christopher A. Ford, assistant secretary for international security and nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Cory Smith has been sentenced for defrauding more than a dozen diamond and jewelry dealers and wholesalers nationwide. Over the course of his scheme, Smith attempted to defraud these companies of nearly $1.2 million in diamonds and jewelry and successfully obtained nearly $570,000 in merchandise.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Rising Pharmaceuticals Agrees to Pay Over $3 Million in Criminal Penalty, Restitution, and Civil Damages Related to Hypertension Drug.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the nomination of Robert J. Feitel, of Maryland, to be Inspector General of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Below is the opening statement of Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the EPW Committee, who presided as ranking member at today's subcommittee hearing...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Queens, N.Y. - Our National Parks, an exhibit of paintings by Jayne Holsinger, will open on Dec. 8. The exhibit opening and reception will be from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Broad Channel. The opening reception is free and open to the public.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. -On Wednesday, December 4, 2019, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, will hold a hearing about the federal response to the epidemic of e-cigarette use, especially among children, and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) compliance policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Anthony Jones, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to his role in a cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl distribution operation, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel today sentenced Ronnell Francis Lewis, a/k/a Punkin, age 46, of Washington, D.C., to 33 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release on federal charged related to Lewis’s participation in two armed robberies. On July 3...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: Police Officers Have Responded to Shootings, Disturbances at his Residence.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 2019 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement (OPPE) today announced fellowship opportunities to connect USDA resources with faculty and staff at Hispanic Serving Institutions, 1994 Tribal Colleges and Universities, and 1890 Land-Grant Universities.
