News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, issued the following statement today regarding President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Marine Gen. John Kelly to lead the Department of Homeland Security...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement praising the Senate for passing H.R. 34, the 21st Century Cures Act, by a vote of 94-5. Pallone was the lead House Democratic negotiator on this legislation, and worked closely with Energy and Commerce Chairman...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the waste and duplication in the USDA’s Catfish Inspection Program. The FDA is already responsible for overseeing the safety and inspection of seafood.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below following press reports that President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles man was sentenced this morning to 15 years in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine on two occasions, including one transaction that took place at his hamburger stand.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Manhattan Project National Historic Park, in partnership with the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge will be featuring a Parks-in-Focus photography exhibit during the month of December. The photography exhibit is located in the Imagination Gallery at the museum located at 461 West Outer Drive.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Daryl Johnson, age 32, an inmate at United States Penitentiary Canaan (USP Canaan), was indicted on December 6, 2016, by a federal grand jury on a charge of assaulting a federal employee.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt's expected nomination to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement praising the Senate for passing H.R. 34, the 21st Century Cures Act, by a vote of 94-5. Pallone was the lead House Democratic negotiator on this legislation, and worked closely with Energy and Commerce Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A former parole officer with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of sexual exploitation of a child, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Saralyn Ann Proschko, 48, of Victoria, pleaded guilty June 7, 2016.
By State Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following today’s meeting with delegations from Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the below statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Wendall Keith Antell, 48, of Lapwai, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 121 months in prison followed by five years supervised release for aggravated sexual abuse of a minor, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Antell to pay $50,000 in restitution. Antell pleaded guilty to the charge on May 16, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after President-elect Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Steven Mnuchin to be the next Secretary of the Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Concord, N.H.- United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice and core team partners from the Manchester Police Department, Child and Family Services, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - Homeland Security Investigations and Give Way to Freedom announced a grant of $1.3 million from the United States...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) called for the elimination of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s catfish inspection program today at the Subcommittee on Health hearing titled “Waste and Duplication in the USDA Catfish Inspection Program:"
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Less than one year after being sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for attempting to extort money from a Dallas-based business (victim Company) and ordered to pay $174,888 in restitution to the numerous victims of his extortive conduct in U.S. v. William Laurence Stanley, 3:14-CR-113-N...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), sponsors of the 21st Century Cures Act, issued the following statement after the Senate passed the medical innovation bill by a vote of 94-5.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is happy to announce the winner and runner-up of the kids’ artwork contest. The contest was open from August through October for anyone 12 years of age or younger. A total of 119 entries from young artists living in Michigan were received at...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: SHREVPORT, LA - A Shreveport man was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Tuesday for selling methamphetamine while staying at a Bossier City casino announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent-in-Charge Stephen G. Azzam and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley of the Western District of Louisiana.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Wednesday evening, the House passed S. 3183, the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act of 2016. The legislation has been spearheaded by Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). The bipartisan bill would empower the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to stop...
