News from December 2016
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today Acting Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy David Friedman announced that the American Institute of Chemical Engineers will lead the tenth Manufacturing USA Institute to be stood up during the Obama Administration.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced that this week’s Republican address will be delivered by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI). In the address, Chairman Upton will discuss the 21st Century Cures Act, groundbreaking medical innovation legislation signed by Speaker Ryan earlier this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Also Upholds District Court Order Invalidating New Mexico State Statute Authorizing Counties to Assert Control over Federal Lands without Consent of U.S. Forest Service.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), chairman-elect of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, today announced that Mike Bloomquist, Karen Christian, Peter Kielty, and Paul Edattel will continue to serve the committee. All are longtime veterans of Capitol Hill.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to a new report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Russia’s state sponsored doping program...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Also Made Hundreds of Videos of Underage Females Using a Lens that Allowed the Camera to See Through Certain Fabric, Including Bathing Suits.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement denouncing the Trump Transition Team for reportedly requesting U.S. Department of Energy officials identify employees and contractors who have taken part in international climate talks over the last five years...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: MOAB, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) welcomes Christina Price as the new manager for the Moab Field Office. Christina brings a fresh perspective and commitment to working with stakeholders in the community. A native of Henderson Nevada, Christina’s roots have always been in the field. She loves the outdoors and remarkable desert landscapes of the Southwest.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today reiterated his strong opposition to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty after the Obama administration submitted the treaty to the Senate. Corker was among a bipartisan group of 53 senators who voted in favor of an amendment in 2013 to protect Americans’ Second Amendment rights and prevent the U.S. from entering into the treaty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Heather Nicole Thompson, 32, of Mobile, was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a methamphetamine ice distribution conspiracy. Thompson entered a guilty plea to the indictment in September of 2016, admitting her participation in two substantive distribution counts and a count charging conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine ice.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), chairman-elect of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, today announced that Mike Bloomquist, Karen Christian, Peter Kielty, and Paul Edattel will continue to serve the committee. All are longtime veterans of Capitol Hill.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Anthony L. Burfoot, 48, of Norfolk, was convicted today by a federal jury on charges of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud, honest services wire fraud, conspiracy to obtain property under color of official right, obtaining property under color of official right, and perjury. Burfoot is the current Norfolk City Treasurer and a former Vice Mayor of Norfolk and City Councilman.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in response to a new report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Russia’s state sponsored doping program...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Kirkland Smith, age 55, of Witherbee, New York, pled guilty today to six counts of possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Federal Inmate Pleads Guilty and Sentenced to Life in Prison for First Degree Murder of Fellow Mexican Mafia Inmate at Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Loaded Gun, Methamphetamine, Heroin, and Oxycodone Seized from Office at One Facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Israel Calcano-Garcia, age 44, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, who is a citizen of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty today to distributing heroin within 1,000 feet of a school, before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service released its final rule on eligibility requirements for retailers participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement denouncing the Trump Transition Team for reportedly requesting U.S. Department of Energy officials identify employees and contractors who have taken part in international climate talks over the last five years...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today a complaint charging LEON ZINDER with the interstate sale of stolen property...
