News from October 2019
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Health hearing to examine safety and national security concerns over growing reliance of drugs manufactured abroad.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court of Puerto Rico expressing opposition to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) Restructuring Support Agreement (RSA). Grijalva’s brief was signed by Small Business Committee Chair Nydia Velázquez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Darren Soto (D-Fla.), both members of the Natural Resources Committee.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Implementation of the 2018 Farm Bill: Rural Development and Energy Programs."
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Power Sector." The hearing is the fifth hearing in the Committee’s climate change series aimed at developing comprehensive legislation to achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio inmate offered a guilty plea in federal court today to writing at least 15 threatening letters containing powder. In some of the letters, he claimed the powder was anthrax or fentanyl or threatened the use of explosive devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Three more individuals have been charged in connection with a long-running scheme to defraud a financial institution in a scheme to obtain car loans in the Rio Grande Valley, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Amy Rake, 39, of Parkersburg, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Rake was prosecuted as part of Project Parkersburg - a major takedown and dismantling of a multi-state...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Safeguarding the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in a Global Economy:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte has indicted Erice Lemond Blyther, 46, of Hoffman, N.C., for smuggling a controlled substance at Lanesboro Correctional Institution while employed as a correctional officer. The indictment was unsealed today in federal court, following Blyther’s arrest by the FBI.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
Release: Projects Recognize DOE-Supported Innovations in National Labs
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Billy Don Urango, age 27, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for Failure To Register As Sex Offender, in violation of Title 18, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A Darien pharmacist is facing up to five years in prison after admitting that she lied about filling prescriptions for prescribers of high volumes of opioids and other controlled substances.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Safeguarding the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in a Global Economy:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Connecticut man pleaded guilty today to bringing more than a kilogram of cocaine into Virginia for local redistribution.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today hailed House passage of the Grand Canyon Centennial Protection Act, which advanced on a 236-185 vote. The bill sets a permanent moratorium on new uranium mining claims on just over 1 million acres of federally protected public lands to the north and south of Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Safeguarding the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in a Global Economy:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: CHESTER, PA - William M. McSwain, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Michael Harpster, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Philadelphia Office; Jonathan Wilson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration-Philadelphia Field Division;...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Admitted that He Trafficked Four Girls, 15 to 17 Years Old, to Engage in Commercial Sex; Faces 10 Years in Federal Prison.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to President Trump today urging the President to fulfill a promise he made last month in an Oval Office press conference that his Administration would ban all harmful flavored e-cigarette products, including those with mint and menthol.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for the U.S. Power Sector." The hearing is the fifth hearing in the Committee’s climate change series aimed at developing comprehensive legislation to achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...
