News from December 2017
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service is inviting the public to experience all national parks, without entrance fees, on four days in 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the drug supply chain.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting. At the meeting, the committee advanced the nomination of R.D. James, of Missouri, to be assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $100 million in funding for new projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA‑E) latest OPEN funding opportunity. OPEN will support America’s top innovators through dozens of early-stage research and development projects as they build technologies to transform the nation’s energy system.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held an agriculture security hearing , titled, “Safeguarding American Agriculture in a Globalized World."
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) led a letter signed by over 100 House Republicans to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the upcoming vote restoring Internet freedom.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: ARS scientists are saving water in California's vineyards by using satellite data and computer models to better manage water resources.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing entitled, “The Impacts and Future of North American Energy Trade."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - William Robert Garberding, 62, of Brevard, N.C. was sentenced late yesterday to 120 months in prison for enticing a minor using the Internet, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger ordered Garberding to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Willie Richard Minor, 58, of Auburn, Maine, was convicted today following a two-day jury trial in U.S. District Court of possession of a firearm after having been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Investigation Utilized Multiple State and Federal Agencies.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: (BILLINGS, Mont.) - Bids on oil and gas leases in Montana brought in $666,900 in an online auction held December 11-12 by the Bureau of Land Management.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing entitled, “The Impacts and Future of North American Energy Trade."
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement this morning calling on the Trump Administration to extend the Open Enrollment period through January 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Defendants Responsible for Rutgers University Hack, Creating Mirai and clickfraud Botnets, Infecting Hundreds of Thousands of Devices with Malicious Software.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Grady Calhoun, 35, of Hamilton, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 15 months in prison and two years of supervised release for three counts of bank fraud related to making representations as part of his application to obtain credit cards.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) led a letter signed by over 100 House Republicans to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on the upcoming vote restoring Internet freedom.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Democratic staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today issued two reports detailing how the White House rejected Department of Homeland Security (DHS) priorities-including border security technology-in order to pay for a border wall and how the White...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm has sentenced a woman who defrauded her former employer, a Bloomington, Ill., landscaping business, of more than $1,000,000. Yesterday afternoon, Dec. 12, Judge Mihm ordered that Tina Cozart, 55, formerly of Carlock, Ill., serve 42 months in federal...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Committee." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...