News from April 2016
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following opening statement at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee Hearing on seven communications bills, including Pallone’s Securing Access to Networks in Disasters (SANDy) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Three Former Correctional Officers in Georgia Indicted for Roles in Beating Inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlton man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with soliciting hundreds of teenage girls on several social media platforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: In 2014, in a unanimous ruling delivered by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court concluded that the police may not search a cellphone without first demonstrating probable cause.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, announced the Committee will hold a business meeting on April 14 to markup legislation reauthorizing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: To celebrate 100 years of stewardship, the National Park Service is planning a shared nation-wide quest to discover and document biodiversity. You are invited to be a part of the celebration as Montezuma Well hosts a BioBlitz on Saturday, May 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that PHILLIP EARL AMEY, a/k/a Crazy, age 34, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 188 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(l) and 841(b)(l)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: On April 11, 2016 an arrest warrant for David Guevara, Sr., 35, of Youngstown, was executed. Guevara was being held in the Mahoning County Jail on state charges at the time of this federal arrest. Guevara has been charged in federal court with attempted transportation and transportation of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, law enforcement officials said.
By State Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a hearing to examine the United Nations’ response to sexual abuse among peacekeeping forces, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed disgust over continued reports of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) by peacekeepers and the failure ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jaheeim Benton, 26, of Pawtucket, a member of the YNIC street gang, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to trafficking crack cocaine, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Reyes Tijerina, 35, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced late yesterday afternoon in federal court to 60 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for her methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: I want to begin by thanking you, Chairman Goodlatte, and your staff, for working with us to develop the amendment before us now.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. -- The Bureau of Reclamation and the El Dorado Irrigation District (EID) have completed negotiations for a long-term Warren Act Contract to facilitate the
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a legislative hearing to examine bills that improve Americans’ access to public safety in emergency situations, improve Spectrum efficiency, bring broadband to skilled nursing facilities, and limit spending in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Lifeline program. Members of the subcommittee examined the following bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Defendants Committed Multiple Acts of Violence, Including Murder and Attempted Murder, to Benefit the Criminal Enterprise.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Somath Hom, 24, of Philadelphia, PA was charged today by Indictment with two counts of making false statements to a federal firearms licensee regarding guns he purchased on November 3 and November 9, 2015 from federal firearms licensees, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following opening statement at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee Hearing on seven communications bills, including Pallone’s Securing Access to Networks in Disasters (SANDy) Act.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, is pleased to announce broad support of his Chairman’s Mark on reauthorizing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which will be considered at the Committee’s business meeting on Thursday.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn today announced that the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives will hold a hearing on The Pricing of Fetal Tissue beginning at 10:00am Eastern Time on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, in HVC-210 at the U.S. Capitol.
