News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A California businessman has pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to use bribery and other forms of fraud to facilitate his son’s admission to the University of Southern California (USC) as a purported athletic recruit.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced today that Mineral Resources, Inc., an oil and gas company located in Greeley, Colorado, has agreed to a $214,706 payment to resolve allegations that it drilled an oil and gas well in Weld County, Colorado, to extract federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Virginia Beach company pleaded guilty today to violating the Clean Water Act.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed four bills that will reauthorize critical public health programs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and were advanced out of the Full Committee last week...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee unanimously approved bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Pat Roberts (R-KS), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) to address the shortage of agricultural inspectors at the nation’s ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Perspectives on Reauthorization of the U.S. Grain Standards Act."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: On prescription drugs, lets fix what’s broken and improve what’s working.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing on “Building America’s Clean Future: Pathways to Decarbonize the Economy."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging JAVITS WILLIAMS, age 39, of Raleigh, with possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Communications and Technology subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following statement applauding House passage of the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act by a sweeping 429-3 vote.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: Barrasso welcomes Mr. Hovinga to the committee. Hovinga's testimony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 32-year-old Kentucky woman has been ordered to federal prison after attempting to hide narcotics inside her body and within her undergarments, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: SOUTH BEND - Dedric Strickland, age 41, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. upon his plea of guilty to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: Preparer made false returns to increase clients’ tax refunds.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Legislation to Make Cars in America Safer."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing on “Building America’s Clean Future: Pathways to Decarbonize the Economy."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement after Energy and Commerce legislation to strengthen public health programs passed in the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Legislation to Make Cars in America Safer."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Paul Glen Hamilton, Jr., of Bowie, Maryland and Melbourne, Florida, has admitted to a child pornography charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Communications and Technology subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) released the following statement applauding House passage of the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act by a sweeping 429-3 vote.
