News from July 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: “Thank you, Chairman McGovern and Ranking Member Cole.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Cornelius Jeremih Pruitt, 23, of Bay Minette, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court on charges that he was a drug user illegally in possession of a firearm. Pruitt pled guilty to the federal charge in April of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced on Friday, July 26, 2019 that RICHARD SANSBURY, age 26, and ALAN PARSON, age 18, residents of Indianapolis, Indiana, were charged in a three count Indictment for their alleged participation in the June 17, 2019 robbery of the CVS pharmacy located at 4901 Prytania Street.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that a Fayette County teenager was sentenced in federal court for his role in a federal drug conspiracy. John D. Toney, 19, of Scarbro, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after a long-term investigation. Stuart commended...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released an online video statement after Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced he would resign on Aug. 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Two Colombian Businessmen Charged With Money Laundering in Connection With Venezuela Bribery Scheme.
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a resolution introduced this week, Congressmen Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Eliot Engel (D-NY), Lead Republican and Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, commended Canada for upholding the rule of law regarding the extradition of Huawei Technology’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou, and expressed their concern with China’s retaliatory and hostile actions against Canadian citizens.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, reintroduced a bill today that would improve indoor and outdoor air quality and encourage manufacturing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A con man who operated a fraudulent immigration services business that defrauded hundreds of undocumented immigrants has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a joint statement today urging the Senate to act to extend the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program before adjourning for the August Recess...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - After repeatedly urging the Trump Administration to work with automakers and the state of California to strike a deal on fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards, and following his office's participation in the discussions that led to today's announcement, today, U.S. Senator ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - A 44-year old Mexican national in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Stewart Detention Facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, died Wednesday afternoon at an area hospital.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) released a joint statement today urging the Senate to act to extend the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program before adjourning for the August Recess...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a joint statement today urging the Senate to act to extend the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program before adjourning for the August Recess...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Today, we are going to hear from our colleagues about the issues of importance to them within our Committee’s jurisdiction.
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Michael McCaul, the Committee’s Ranking Member, today welcomed unanimous House passage of their legislation authorizing the Department of State for 2020. This authorization bill, H.R. 3352, is the first such legislation to pass the House of Representatives since 2013.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing titled, “Hemp Production and the 2018 Farm Bill."
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) made the following statement on the retirement of Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX). Rep. Olson serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and is a member of the Communications and Technology and the Energy subcommittees.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Today, we are going to hear from our colleagues about the issues of importance to them within our Committee’s jurisdiction.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released Volume 1 of its crumb rubber report, known as the Federal Research Action Plan (FRAP) on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Fields and Playgrounds - a multi-agency research effort which Pallone requested in 2015 - to characterize the chemicals and risks associated with crumb rubber...
