News from July 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a plan to implement provisions from the RAY BAUM’S Act to ban malicious spoofing calls and text messages...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to news the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the Trump Administration’s Title X changes may go into effect while they are challenged in court.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a plan to implement provisions from the RAY BAUM’S Act to ban malicious spoofing calls and text messages...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Indianapolis - Josh J. Minkler, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today that a federal grand jury has charged brothers Moyad Dannon, 21, and Mahde Dannon, 20, both of Fishers, Indiana, with one count of attempting to provide material support and resources, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two men from McKinley County, N.M., have pleaded guilty in federal court in Albuquerque to a charge of kidnapping in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Justice announced today a new tool giving tribal governments the ability to directly input data and gain access to the FBI’s National Sex Offender Registry (NSOR) using the Tribe and Territory Sex Offender Registry System (TTSORS). The system connection will be...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today urgently requesting answers to a series of questions following alarming reports of abuse of immigrant children while in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former executive at StyleHaul Inc., a digital marketing company that represents “influencers" on YouTube and Instagram, has been arrested pursuant to a federal grand jury indictment charging him with embezzling $22 million from his employer and using the stolen money for buy-ins at professional poker tournaments, crypto-currency investing, and other personal expenses.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), released the following statement after voting to oppose the nomination of Peter Wright to be assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Land and Emergency Management.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released a statement following Health Subcommittee passage today of H.R. 2328, the Community Health Investment Modernization, and Excellence Act of 2019, which reauthorizes Community Health Center funding for four years, and included an amendment to eliminate cuts to Disproportionate Share Hospitals for the next two years...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: Mark W. Sweeney Made Threats Through Veteran’s Crisis Line.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Lamontay D. Rivera, 21, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to seven years in federal prison for robbing a Madison restaurant while armed with a handgun. Rivera pleaded guilty to this charge on March 12, 2019.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: Albania is an upper middle-income country with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of USD 5,288 (2018) and a population of approximately 2.9 million people, around 45 percent of whom live in rural areas. According to IMF estimates, real GDP increased by 4.2 percent in 2018, and growth is expected ...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced a plan to implement provisions from the RAY BAUM’S Act to ban malicious spoofing calls and text messages...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: HUNTINGTON, WV - A Wood County, West Virginia, man was caught by Transportation Security Administration officers with a loaded.38 caliber revolver in his carry-on bag at the Huntington Tri-State Airport (HTS) May 18. It marked the fourth gun caught at the airport’s checkpoint so far this year. That is twice as many as were caught in 2018 in just the first five months of 2019. TSA officers caught two firearms at the HTS checkpoint in 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) expressed his satisfaction in the following statement with the advancement of H.R. 3630, the No Surprises Act, from the Health Subcommittee to the full committee for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth man pleaded guilty today for his role in a violent racketeering conspiracy and other related firearm charges.
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
Release: At the national level, the Swiss government enacts laws and regulations governing corporate structure, the financial system, and immigration, and concludes international trade and investment treaties. The Swiss federal system grants Switzerland’s 26 cantons (i.e., states) and largest municipalities significant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two men have been charged in a four-count federal indictment for the June 2019 shipment of more than 45 pounds of cocaine through the Port of Savannah.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2019
News Release: I come to the floor today to update the American people about efforts to reduce the cost of prescription medicine.
