News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Following a three-day trial, a federal jury in Amarillo convicted a New Mexico man who kidnapped and assaulted a young girl from Texas, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 28-year-old legal permanent resident alien who resided in Houston has been convicted of conspiring to and transporting an illegal alien within the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) issued the following joint statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule that would deny patients necessary and lifesaving health care based on religious beliefs and erode nondiscrimination protections...
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) issued the following joint statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule that would deny patients necessary and lifesaving health care based on religious beliefs and erode nondiscrimination protections...
By Homeland Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, applauded President Trump’s executive order creating a federal cybersecurity rotational program. On Tuesday, the Senate unanimously approved Peters’ bipartisan legislation,...
By USDA Newswire | May 2, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C., [May 2, 2019] - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has prepared a pest risk analysis that evaluates the risks associated with the importation of fresh mamey sapote fruit (Pouteria sapota [Jacq.] H.E. Moore & Stearn) from Mexico into ...
By USDA Newswire | May 2, 2019
Release: May 2, 2019 - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s Chief Veterinary Officer for the United States, Dr. Jack Shere, accompanied by Dr. Jaspinder Komal, Chief Veterinary Officer for Canada and by Dr. Juan Gay Gutierrez, Chief Veterinary Officer for Mexico issued the following statement about the African swine fever (ASF) forum that took place in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on April 30 and May 1
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Santa Fe, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Taos Field Office and New Mexico State Office in Santa Fe are selling fuelwood permits for personal use to the public. The cost of the fuelwood permit is $12 per cord and are available in person at either location. Members of the public can purchase a minimum of one cord and up to eight cords per person.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III today sentenced Delonte Conley, age 27, of Baltimore to 150 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise related to his activities as a member of the Hillside gang that operated in the Cherry Hill neighborhood of Baltimore.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called on the Trump administration to maintain protections for access to care in Medicaid. Their request follows guidance and proposed rule changes from the Trump administration weakening protections and making it more difficult for vulnerable Americans in the program to access health care.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office is seeking public comments on the potential environmental impacts of a proposal by Plains Pipeline, L.P. to replace its roughly 127-mile pipeline, which includes approximately 14 miles of federal lands within Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Kern counties. The public comment period will end June 3.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act, passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 231-190. H.R. 9 was favorably reported out of the Energy and Commerce Committee on April 4, 2019 by a vote of 29-19.
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Former Federal Correctional Officer Charged With Civil Rights Offense for Assaulting Inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Tom Lewis, 29, De Soto, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to three years in federal prison for using a telephone to facilitate the of distribution of methamphetamine. Lewis pleaded guilty to this charge on Feb. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A jury has convicted a Central Ohio doctor with charges related to a health care fraud scheme that included marketing prescription creams in Sav-a-Lot and low-income neighborhoods and persistently mailing those creams to Medicaid customers, as well as prescribing and distributing Suboxone without medical necessity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years and six months of probation, with 10 months to be served on home confinement with electronic monitoring, and restitution in the amount of $103,415.00 on his conviction of theft of government property and false statement to the government, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Two former executives were charged in an indictment unsealed today for their alleged participation in an insurance investment scheme that resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in victim losses.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) announced today that the Energy Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, May 9 at 10:15 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building with Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry on President Trump’s DOE budget request for fiscal year 2020. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2020 DOE Budget."
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act, passed by the House of Representatives by a vote of 231-190. H.R. 9 was favorably reported out of the Energy and Commerce Committee on April 4, 2019 by a vote of 29-19.
