News from July 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.) released the following statements on the committee's passage of S. 2302, America's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019. The legislation as amended passed the committee by a vote of 21 to 0.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-Randall Neal Wynn, 59, of Goshen, Oregon, was sentenced today to 125 months in federal prison and five years’ supervised release for possessing methamphetamine.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) released the following statement on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's action related to the grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that John Leroy Gordon, 27, of Chester, Pennsylvania, entered a plea of guilty to carjacking before the Honorable Gerald J. Pappert yesterday, just before trial was set to commence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a statement today after Congress passed a short-term extension of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program through Sept. 13, 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A federal jury returned a guilty verdict against a 42-year-old Corpus Christi man for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Join us at Pipe Spring National Monument for an hour long brown bag lunch talk on the Southern Paiute language, Wednesday August 14th, at 11:00 a.m. Mountain Standard Time. Topics covered will be the different dialects spoken by each Southern Paiute band, the origin of the language and its Uto-Aztecan...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JAMES HATCH, age 50, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to one count of conspiring to traffic 500 grams of a mixture containing methamphetamine and one count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. United States District Judge Susie Morgan sentenced HATCH to a term of imprisonment of 160 months, followed by five years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan S. Lowenthal (D-Calif.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, sent a letter today to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt seeking documents on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) decision to cancel regulatory...
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Washington-Today, Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Albio Sires (D-NJ), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, and Trade released the following statement calling on Guatemalan presidential candidates...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D., today requesting a briefing following reports that the agency is reorganizing its environmental health division in ways that could diminish the effectiveness of critical public health programs, including the Climate and Health Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - One of 19 defendants charged in a gang-related racketeering conspiracy was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 120 months in prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) released a statement today after Congress passed a short-term extension of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program through Sept. 13, 2019...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D., today requesting a briefing following reports that the agency is reorganizing its environmental health division in ways that could diminish the effectiveness of critical public health programs, including the Climate and Health Program.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Tom Carper (D-DE), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Ben Cardin (D-MD) released the following statements on the committee's passage of S. 2302, America's Transportation Infrastructure Act of 2019. The legislation as amended passed the committee by a vote of 21 to 0.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joseph Harper, 42, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 12 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. Harper pleaded guilty to this charge on April 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a statement today after Congress passed a short-term extension of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program through Sept. 13, 2019...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) released a statement today after Congress passed a short-term extension of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program through Sept. 13, 2019...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Dr. Norman E. “Ned" Sharpless requesting briefings on the potential threat to the U.S. supply of heparin, the only anticoagulant drug used for open-heart surgeries and kidney dialysis.
