News from September 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: Today’s hearing is a very somber one, but also a very important one. Hate is becoming mainstream in this country. We see it in the news, we read it online, and we encounter it face-to-face.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA - A former resident of Cleveland, Ohio, has pleaded guilty to charges of violating federal robbery and firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for its 2-1 party line vote today gutting Section 210 of the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA):
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Carson City District, Sierra Front Field Office, will host a National Public Lands Day (NPLD) event on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2019, to collect seeds from native plants at Pelican Point on Pyramid Lake.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Hudson County men were charged for their alleged roles in trafficking heroin and fentanyl into a New Jersey state prison, which resulted in an inmate’s overdose, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent letters to 16 states today asking how the states are using federal funds to assist treatment and recovery efforts in response to the opioid crisis. The letters were signed by full Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), full Committee Ranking...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on “Protecting Unaccompanied Children: The Ongoing Impacts of the Trump Administration’s Cruel Policies:"
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) calls for solutions for the nation’s border crisis and shares experience from firsthand visits to the border at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing. Walden also reaffirms he does not support children being separated from their parents at the border.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) today slammed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s closely guarded, secretly negotiated bill that has yet to be shared with Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee, even as the committee has a markup of the bill scheduled for next Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was indicted today in federal court in Boston of illegally reentering the United States.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent letters to 16 states today asking how the states are using federal funds to assist treatment and recovery efforts in response to the opioid crisis. The letters were signed by full Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), full...
By State Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: Washington- Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing on the Trump Administration’s Afghanistan policy...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Natural Resources Committee approved 16 bills at a two-hour markup yesterday. Among other measures, the Committee advanced Chair Raúl M. Grijalva’s (D-Ariz.) CECIL Act, which would strengthen the standards under which sport hunted trophies of endangered and threatened species could be imported, and Rep. Gregorio Sablan’s (D-CNMI) bill to prohibit the sale of shark fins.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: VERNAL, Utah - The John Jarvie Historic Ranch and the RV pump station will close for the season Sept. 23, 2019. Maintenance and construction activities are scheduled during the closure to upgrade the facilities. The Bureau of Land Management Vernal Field Office is scheduled to reopen the Jarvie Ranch and the RV pump station on May 2, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Adonnis Carswell, age 34, of New Haven, Indiana was found guilty by a jury on 4 counts as charged in a Superseding Indictment; maintaining a drug involved premises, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - The leader of a multi-state conspiracy that stole and used personal identifying information of others to defraud banks, finance companies, car dealerships and retailers of more than $1.3 million pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to conspiracy, aggravated identity theft...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing entitled “Protecting Consumers from Pharmaceutical Market Gaming Tactics:"
By EPA Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) calls for solutions for the nation’s border crisis and shares experience from firsthand visits to the border at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing. Walden also reaffirms he does not support children being separated from their parents at the border.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that David Hill, 39, Edgerton, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to four years in federal prison for or unlawfully possessing five firearms as a convicted felon. Hill pleaded guilty to this charge on July 3, 2019. His prison term will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A Smyrna woman was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika to 18 months in prison for defrauding the U.S. Social Security Administration (“SSA") of more than $175,000.
