News from May 2020
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Due to increasingly high temperatures drying vegetation, Bureau of Land Management Southern Nevada District is implementing fire restrictions beginning May 9.
By EPA Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today raising a series of concerns over the methodology used to distribute and the lack of transparency into how COVID-19 relief funds and loans for health care providers are being spent.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Small Business Lending Program Reaches New Milestone.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Brady Talks GDP Report on Fox Business.
By EPA Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a teleconference forum on Monday, May 11, at 12 p.m. (EDT) with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph J. Simons to discuss critical consumer protection issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. - Top federal law enforcement officials in South Florida urge parents to stay alert to the increased danger their children face from on-line predators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a teleconference forum on Monday, May 11, at 12 p.m. (EDT) with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph J. Simons to discuss critical consumer protection issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: For Distribution of Methamphetamine. FORT WAYNE - Jamie Lynn Lantz, age 39, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady for distribution of fifty grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch. Lantz was sentenced to 70 months in prison followed...
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee today announced a Health Subcommittee Hearing for Thursday, May 14, entitled “Protecting Scientific Integrity in the COVID-19 Response." The hearing notice follows this note to the media.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - The United States Marshals Fugitive Task Force is happy to report that after a lengthy investigation, State of New Hampshire fugitives, Michael Williams, 32 years-of-age and Kaitlyn Lee, 27 years-of-age were both arrested by members of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Dellrose, Tennessee. Three missing children, ages, 12, 9 and 3 years-of-age were also recovered at the scene of the arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Agrees to pay $2.85 million to settle allegations his clinics ordered medically unnecessary urine tests at his lab, paid for by government healthcare programs.
By EPA Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee today announced a Health Subcommittee Hearing for Thursday, May 14, entitled “Protecting Scientific Integrity in the COVID-19 Response." The hearing notice follows this note to the media.
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: As more information about the risks posed to COVID-19 patients by the use of hydroxychloroquine sulfate (hydroxychloroquine) and chloroquine phosphate (chloroquine) becomes available, I am increasingly concerned about the processes by which the Department of Health and Human Services...
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced that the Full Committee will hold a teleconference forum on Friday, May 8, at 12 pm (EDT) on COVID-19 testing, contact tracing and surveillance.
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced the Bison Conservation Initiative (BCI), a new cooperative initiative that will coordinate conservation strategies and approaches for the wild American Bison over the next 10 years. The Department of the Interior (DOI) and its partners...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Carnell Briggs, 21, appeared in court via video conference and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote, to eight months in federal prison and three years of supervised release, for possessing a stolen firearm. Briggs pled guilty to this charge on Dec. 19, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: MISSOULA - A California man accused of threatening to inform on a person if he wasn't paid money today admitted blackmail charges, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today raising a series of concerns over the methodology used to distribute and the lack of transparency into how COVID-19 relief funds and loans for health care providers are being spent.
By Commerce Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) and Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a teleconference forum on Monday, May 11, at 12 p.m. (EDT) with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Joseph J. Simons to discuss critical consumer protection issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2020
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - David Clay Fowlkes, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Brion Carey, age 35, of Fayetteville, Arkansas, was sentenced on May 6, 2020, to 180 months in federal prison without the possibly of parole followed by twenty years of...
