News from June 2019
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Investing in America’s Health Care:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Peyman Amiri Larijani, 33, a citizen of Iran and former resident of Istanbul, Turkey was charged in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in two separate indictments. The announcement was made by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia, Assistant Secretary, Nazak Nikakhtar U.S. Department of Commerce.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Previously Announced. Week of June 3, 2019. Wednesday, June 5, 2019 - 9:30AM. 1300 Longworth House Office Building. Washington, D.C. Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research Subcommittee Hearing. RE: “Examining the Impacts of Relocating USDA Research Agencies on Agriculture Research". Week of June 10,...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “STELAR Review: Protecting Consumers in an Evolving Media Market:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 11, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 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), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled “Hearing on the Nomination of Robert Wallace to be Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks at the Department of the Interior."
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Luray, Virginia - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1.26 million visitors to Shenandoah National Park in 2018 spent $87 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,077 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $116 million.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Some cleanup workers are available around the clock to respond in the event of an emergency at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project or surrounding communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Floyd Barber, 23, of Saint Louis, MO, pleaded guilty to two counts of carjacking, one count of using a firearm in furtherance of one carjacking, and one count of using a firearm in furtherance of the second carjacking where death resulted. Barber appeared today before U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White who accepted his plea and set his sentencing date for September 5, 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on “STELAR Review: Protecting Consumers in an Evolving Media Marketplace."
By USDA Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry today announced staff changes and promotions to his Committee staff.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: Barrasso welcomes Mr. Wallace to the committee. Wallace's testimony.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and the management and operations contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) are relying on a low-cost strategy using microorganisms found in nature to safely remove chemicals from a narrow groundwater plume.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A south suburban chiropractor has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly submitting reimbursement claims to private insurers for nonexistent treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Today the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced a settlement agreement with Arlington Public Schools that will bolster English language services to the district’s approximately 5,000 students who are not proficient in English.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's markup of its fiscal year 2020 bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that LATANYA A. BRITTON, age 41, resident of LaPlace, Louisiana, was indicted on Thursday, May 30, 2019, by a federal grand jury for nine (9) counts of Wire Fraud. BRITTON was arrested by members of the United States Secret Service. She appeared in U.S. Magistrate Court on Monday, June 3, 2019, and was released on a $50,000 bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUAN HAZARD, also known as “Money," 42, of Cranston, Rhode Island, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking fentanyl.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Activities and Events across the Nation to Spotlight USDA's Efforts to Help Families in Rural Communities Achieve Prosperity through Homeownership WASHINGTON, June 3, 2019 – Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today kicked off National Homeownership Month by highlighting USDA’s ongoing role to help residents of America’s small towns and cities purchase homes in rural areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department of the Interior (DOI), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the State of Washington, the Suquamish Tribe, and the Tulalip Tribes (collectively, “the Port Gardner Bay Trustees” aka “the Trustees”), announced that they have reached ...
