News from June 2021
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm issued the following statement today after the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Ali Nouri by voice vote to serve as Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: I’m pleased to welcome you all to the 84th meeting of the International Commission of the International Tracing Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Davenport, Iowa - A Missouri man was arrested June 16, 2021, in Missouri on criminal charges related to his alleged production of child pornography and sextortion of minor females in Muscatine, Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Tennessee physician pleaded guilty today in the Western District of Tennessee to causing the death of one of his patients through his illegal prescribing of hydrocodone.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: Projects Aim to Bring R&D Funding & Innovation to All Parts of America
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Republican Leader of the Health Subcommittee Brett Guthrie participated in a press conference with Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Republican Leadership about the urgency of the COVID-19 origins investigation and why America must lead to get answers and hold China accountable.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Thomas Staszak, 46, of Philadelphia, PA, a former employee of the City of Philadelphia Water Department (“PWD"), was Indicted by a federal grand jury on multiple charges of theft from a federally funded program and computer fraud.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
Release: FOREIGN MINISTER MAAS: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the federal foreign office. A very warm welcome to Berlin, dear Tony, or rather, welcome back. After all, weren’t you in Europe only last week? And during that visit, President Biden and your delegation underlined impressively that America is back, back on the international and multilateral scene, and we’re extremely pleased about this.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed four consumer protection bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Milik I. Stanley, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced today to 87 months of incarceration for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, June 30, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JARON BIAS, age 29, of New Orleans, was sentenced on June 16, 2021 after pleading guilty to Count 1 of a Superseding Bill of Information charging him in a heroin conspiracy. Members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation began investigating BIAS in August 2017, when they learned from a confidential source that BIAS was distributing heroin in the Black Pearl neighborhood in Orleans Parish as well as in Jefferson Parish.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: A federal jury today convicted a Broken Arrow man of sexually abusing two children under the age of 12, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Raleigh man pleaded guilty today to Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, and Possession of a Firearm by a Felon, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g).
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), former Amtrak Board Member and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, commended the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure for both including his legislation to permanently ban smoking on Amtrak as part of their respective surface transportation bills.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Republicans called on Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to resume in-person committee business immediately.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: DENTON, Texas - Preliminary flood risk information and updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) are available for review by residents and business owners in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. Property owners are encouraged to review the latest information to learn about local flood risks and potential future...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a full Committee markup of drinking water and PFAS bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Perry County man was convicted on Monday, by a federal jury sitting in London, of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of that conspiracy, possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit a kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Jaden Allen, 20, of St. Louis, Missouri, pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting the commission of a carjacking. Allen appeared today before United States District Court Judge John A. Ross.
