News from May 2019
By USDA Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing titled, “Climate Change and the Agriculture Sector."
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 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 Health hearing on “Improving Drug Pricing Transparency and Lowering Prices for American Consumers."
By Homeland Newswire | May 21, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Appropriations Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2020 Energy and Water Development bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to multiple federal charges.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) sent a letter to Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Subcommittee on Health Chairwoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) reiterating their request for a hearing on the Democrats’ $32 trillion plan for a government takeover of the American health care system.
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo’s (D-CA) remarks as prepared for delivery at a Health Subcommittee hearing entitled “Improving Drug Pricing Transparency and Lowering Prices for American Consumers" are enclosed below...
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following last week’s Ways and Means Committee hearing on the maternal mortality crisis in the United States, Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent letters to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and U.S. Government...
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: BURLEY, Idaho - This week, the BLM Burley Field Office begins construction of a new ADA accessible trail alongside a portion of the original ruts comprising the Oregon National Historic Trail at the Milner Historic Recreation Area. The trail, once finished, will boast 1.3 miles of 6-foot wide access. Visitors may experience some disruption during the work week. However, trail construction will not affect access or use of campsites.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 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 Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Undermining Mercury Protections: EPA Endangers Human Health and the Environment."
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: 2019 Sweeney Summer Concert Series. Appomattox, Va.: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park and the Appomattox 1865 Foundation are pleased to announce dates and performers for the annual Sweeney Summer Concert Series. Join us in celebrating the musical history of Appomattox County with this monthly...
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Workers finished the last step in a demolition project by digging out and removing a concrete pad used to hold equipment for a facility that treated low-level waste at EM’s West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) Site.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
Release: KYIV, UKRAINE – The U.S. Presidential Delegation, led by U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, to the Inauguration of His Excellency Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, met on the sidelines of the inauguration with President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of the Republic ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 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 Health hearing on “Improving Drug Pricing Transparency and Lowering Prices for American Consumers."
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS, Montana -The Bureau of Reclamation has announced that water levels at most Reclamation-managed reservoirs east of the continental divide in Montana are at or above average for this time of year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - Two women were indicted by a federal grand jury in Worcester in connection with their management of Northern Herb, a marijuana delivery service that operated in Massachusetts from 2015 to 2018.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Workers started demolishing the final two buildings at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) that once supported Oak Ridge’s gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment process. They are the last of the Poplar Creek facilities, the most contaminated structures remaining at the site.
By EPA Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo’s (D-CA) remarks as prepared for delivery at a Health Subcommittee hearing entitled “Improving Drug Pricing Transparency and Lowering Prices for American Consumers" are enclosed below...
By USDA Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing titled “Climate Change and the Agriculture Sector."
By US DOT Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Tomorrow’s scheduled subcommittee hearing titled “Policies, Recommendations, and Impacts of the President’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Request" has been postponed to a later date, to be announced soon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Lepoleon Spikes (47, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to wire fraud involving fraudulently obtained FEMA benefits. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison and has agreed to pay $57,789.19 in restitution to the United States.
