News from July 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court yesterday for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of H.R. 3375, the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act...
By DOE 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 Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: For the past week there have been ongoing discussions between congressional leadership and the Administration relating to an agreement on budget caps and raising the debt limit. Those discussions produced an agreement that was announced Monday night.
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 Commerce 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: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Billy J. Moore, age 32, of Ligonier, Indiana, was sentenced before United States District Court Judge Holly A. Brady upon his plea of guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, possessing an unregistered destructive device, and distributing methamphetamine, announced the Northern District of Indiana United States Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Chicago Field Division Special Agent in Charge Brian M. McKnight.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), welcomed Forrest Galante, wildlife biologist and host of Extinct or Alive on Animal Planet, to the committee. Galante was testifying before the committee at a hearing titled “Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize: Innovative Solutions to Reduce Human-Predator Conflict."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A federal grand jury today indicted two men in connection with a February 2019 armed robbery of an M&T Bank branch in which a bank employee was shot.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDNRIA, La. - Freddie Lewis, 28, of Alexandria, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to serve 54 months in federal prison and one year of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph. Lewis previously pleaded guilty to the federal charge on April 16, 2019.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $37 million in funding for targeted research in materials and chemistry to advance the important emerging field of Quantum Information Science (QIS).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with Facebook following the Commission’s investigation into the company’s data privacy practices...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national residing in Lawrence was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for Social Security fraud and aggravated identity theft.
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 DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement after their bipartisan Stopping Bad Robocalls Act (H.R. 3375 ) passed on the House of Representatives by a vote of 429-3...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment & Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building America’s Clean Future: Pathways to Decarbonize the Economy:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Christopher Kruse, 51, of Skowhegan, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Lance E. Walker to 15 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possessing and receiving child pornography. He was also ordered to pay $50,000 in restitution, $10,200 in special assessments, and a $1,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - EM’s Nevada Program has safely and successfully completed corrective actions and closed the last of 138 soil sites at the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS).
By DOE Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing to examine U.S. interests in the Freely Associated States (FAS), which include the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of Palau. Relations between the U.S. and FAS began during World War II, when the United States ended Japanese occupation of the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2019
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced today that Samuel Melendez age 43, of St. Croix plead guilty on July 23, 2019 in federal court to unlawful possession of a firearm in a school zone.
