News from February 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will deliver remarks at the American Enterprise Institute on Monday, March 2, focused on the future of U.S. communications policy. Chairman Walden is expected to address the FCC’s recent vote to impose Depression-era monopoly telephone regulation on the Internet as well as the Energy and Commerce Committee’s work toward a #CommActUpdate. The event will be livestreamed here.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Carlos Sanchez (29, Lakeland) to 13 years and 4 months in federal prison for possessing with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, possessing a firearm and ammunition as a previously convicted felon, and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: In Austin today, 58-year-old political consultant Kenneth Barfield (aka “Buddy Barfield") was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for stealing more than $2.5 Million in campaign funds from former Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Thomas Roullier, 34, a former resident of Spokane, Washington, and an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Herlong, California, ("FCI Herlong") was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 8 years in prison for an assault resulting in serious...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County woman has been sentenced in federal court to time served, followed by three years supervised release, for conspiring to distribute and possession with the intent to distribute less than 100 grams of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing to examine Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) issues related to small and rural drinking water utilities. Many smaller and rural communities face significant challenges in replacing, maintaining, and upgrading aging and drinking water infrastructure along with added costs and burdens of meeting new regulatory requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Timothy Davis, Jr., 47, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court in East St. Louis for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon and for Distribution of a Controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Vasquez-De La Cruz Prosecuted as Part of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Billie Preston, 42, a former resident of Monkton who now lives in South Burlington, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 21 months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to a charge...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA) led a bicameral group of Democratic lawmakers in filing an amicus brief opposing the District Court ruling that would maintain the outdated exclusion of home care workers from basic worker protections like minimum wage and overtime.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Upon the failure of the House Republican leadership to pass a three-week extension for funding the Department of Homeland Security by a vote of 203-224 - Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement. Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is scheduled to lapse tonight at midnight (6 hours). Earlier today, the Senate passed a clean, full-year funding bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) issued the following statement marking International Rare Disease Day. Last year, Upton and DeGette began the 21st Century Cures initiative on Capitol Hill with the goal of accelerating the discovery, ...
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning at 9:30 a.m., the House Foreign Affairs Committee will meet to consider the following...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Erika Lynn Parker, age, 37 from Rockford, Iowa, and Shawn Benedict Zimmerman, age 42, from Clear Lake, Iowa, have been charged with conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, and possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute. The charges are contained in an indictment unsealed today in United...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing to examine Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) issues related to small and rural drinking water utilities. Many smaller and rural communities face significant challenges in replacing, maintaining, and upgrading aging and drinking water infrastructure along with added costs and burdens of meeting new regulatory requirements.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: “Recent recalls demonstrate that more needs to be done to keep our roads safe. This bill takes a first step by getting the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) the information, resources, and authorities needed to protect consumers from vehicle safety defects," said Pallone. “The bill...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will deliver remarks at the American Enterprise Institute on Monday, March 2, focused on the future of U.S. communications policy. Chairman Walden is expected to address the FCC’s recent vote to impose Depression-era monopoly telephone regulation on the Internet as well as the Energy and Commerce Committee’s work toward a #CommActUpdate. The event will be livestreamed here.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement in response to the administration’s privacy proposal.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of next week’s hearing on “21st Century Energy Markets: How the Changing Dynamics of World Energy Markets Impact our Economy and Energy Security," the majority and minority staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are seeking feedback from stakeholders, releasing a series of questions for discussion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Susan Dietrich, 52, and James Duncan, 50, both of Lackawanna, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and hydrocone and maintaining a premises for drug trafficking. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
