News from May 2019
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the release of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General’s report regarding the excess travel expenses of former Administrator Scott Pruitt...
By State Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Lead Republican Michael McCaul introduced H.R. 2780, the Saving American Families Everywhere (SAFE) from Illicit Opioids Act. This bill will require the State Department, in conjunction with other federal agencies, to develop an international diplomatic...
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of H.R. 987, the Strengthening Health Care and Lowering Prescription Drug Costs Act...
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bill Democrats have on the floor today, H.R. 987, combines bipartisan bills to lower drug costs with partisan bills to bail out Obamacare.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: A Waterloo man who possessed a firearm in a car in Waterloo in June 2018 was sentenced May 15, 2019, to nearly two years in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after Democrats spiked an opportunity to lower drug prices by combining bipartisan bills to lower drug costs with partisan bills to bail out Obamacare...
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today approved the fiscal year 2020 State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs bill on a vote of 29 to 23. The legislation funds the Department of State, the United States Agency for International Development, and other international programs and activities.
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., May 16, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is furthering its overall African Swine Fever (ASF) preparedness efforts with the implementation of a surveillance plan. As part of this plan,. - see more -
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 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 Energy markup of 10 energy related bills.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Just three years into serving an eight-year sentence for health care fraud, Alexis C. Norman was sentenced yesterday to another 30 years for a second health care fraud scheme, some of it committed while she was behind bars, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. Her new sentence will run concurrent to her original one, starting this week.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 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 on the mission and future of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Akbar Muhammad, age 42, of New York, was indicted on May 14, 2019, by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to distribute more than a kilogram of heroin, and two counts of interstate prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Maryland man pleaded guilty today to making false statements to acquire firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Physicists have demonstrated a new way to obtain the essential details that describe an isolated quantum system, such as a gas of atoms, through direct observation. The new method gives information about the likelihood of finding atoms at specific locations in the system with unprecedented spatial resolution. With this technique, scientists can obtain details on a scale of tens of nanometers-smaller than the width of a virus.
By US DOT Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) today introduced the PFAS Release Disclosure Act , legislation that would improve the availability of information related ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Five men and one woman have been charged in three indictments with drug and firearm offenses following an investigation of a drug ring operating in and around Wareham and New Bedford.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Ronald Allen Wright, age 53, of Columbia, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of tax fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. His convictions stem from the false and meritless...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Moose Lake, Minnesota, man convicted of two counts of abusive sexual contact of a child under twelve years was sentenced on May 13, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bill Democrats have on the floor today, H.R. 987, combines bipartisan bills to lower drug costs with partisan bills to bail out Obamacare.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2019
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - The BLM has opened a 30-day public comment period for nominated oil and gas lease parcels located in Montana and North Dakota. The comment period runs through June 16, 2019, and is intended to solicit public input on issues and potential impacts described in the Environmental Assessment.
