News from April 2017
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: TUMACÁCORI, AZ - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 43,830 visitors to Tumacácori National Historical Park in 2016 spent $2,562,600 in communities near the park. That spending supported 39 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $3,096,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following a news conference on Capitol Hill in response to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s efforts to undercut net neutrality protections. Pallone was joined at the news conference by FCC Commissioner...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Long Branch, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 72 months in prison for using his computer to possess and distribute images of child sexual abuse via a peer-to-peer file-sharing network, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy announced today that Kristie Boncore, 24, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on an announcement from the Trump Administration that it plans to continue cost-sharing subsidies that help families save on health care for an undetermined amount of time.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: SOCORRO, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Albuquerque District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) meeting scheduled for May 1, 2017, at the Socorro Field Office, 901 South Old Hwy 85, Socorro, New Mexico, from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. has been postponed to a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Two Toledo men were indicted on federal charges including sex trafficking of minors and production of child pornography, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting information about CMS’s sudden and opaque decision to grant $1.5 billion to the state of Florida to fund its Low-Income Pool (LIP) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Somali man was sentenced to life plus 10 years in prison today for engaging in piracy and committing other offenses pertaining to the attack on the USS Ashland, a U.S. Navy ship, in April 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Somali Pirate Sentenced to Life for 2010 Attack on USS Ashland.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD), House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Senate Communications, Technology, and the Internet...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Former State Representative Erik Fresen pled guilty today, before U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola, for failing to file a federally required tax return.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce and Natural Resources Committee Democratic leaders sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI) Ryan Zinke today to request a briefing on DOI’s impending review of national monument designations. The letter comes after President Trump signed an unprecedented executive order today authorizing DOI to review the status of previously designated national monuments.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) announced a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting information about CMS’s sudden and opaque decision to grant $1.5 billion to the state of Florida to fund its Low-Income Pool (LIP) program.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
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By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce and Natural Resources Committee Democratic leaders sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI) Ryan Zinke today to request a briefing on DOI’s impending review of national monument designations. The letter comes after President Trump signed an unprecedented executive order today authorizing DOI to review the status of previously designated national monuments.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA), and Representative Drew Ferguson (R-GA) introduced...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining a discussion draft of legislation related to the nation’s nuclear waste management.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record for an Environment Subcommittee hearing on consideration of draft legislation titled, The Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Christopher O’Berry, age 42, of Columbia, pled guilty in federal court in Columbia to Theft of Government Money, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 641. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr., of Columbia, accepted the guilty plea and will sentence him at a later date.
