News from December 2017
By EPA Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt expressing concerns over EPA’s list of 21 sites recently selected for prioritized cleanup under the Superfund program.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after learning that 8.8 million Americans signed up for health care in 2018 through Healthcare.gov...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - United States District Judge Paul W. Grimm has sentenced former Charles County Sheriff’s Deputy Alexander C. Sullivan, age 38, of King George, Virginia, to 2 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to House Republicans bringing a Continuing Resolution to the floor that funds the federal government through January 19 and that further delays a bipartisan extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Community Health Centers and other public health programs...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government, by a vote of 231-188. Included in the CR is a provision providing short-term funding for the state Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This temporary patch is similar to one passed by the House earlier this month.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - An Italian national pled guilty Thursday to illegally exporting controlled military technology from the United States to Italy following a joint investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York and the Department of Defense, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Northeast Field Office (DCIS).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boylston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to two child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Shawn Lebrecht, 35, of Olean, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 60 months in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: PATCHOGUE, NY. The National Park Service (NPS) released a prospectus today for a concession opportunity at Fire Island National Seashore’s Watch Hill and Sailors Haven marinas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: Former Embraer Sales Executive Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery and Related Charges.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: Fort Stanwix National Monument has new winter hours. Beginning Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017 and lasting until Monday, March 26, 2018, the park visitor center will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. It will be closed on Sundays and Mondays.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - The Western District of Tennessee will receive two additional federal prosecutors to combat violent crime in the district, announced United States Attorney D. Michael Dunavant.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after learning that 8.8 million Americans signed up for health care in 2018 through Healthcare.gov...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: For the first time in more than 30 years, Congress has enacted comprehensive tax reform, which provides middle-class tax relief and a much-needed boost to our economy. This will lead to more jobs, higher wages and increased investment at home.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the ten Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry wrote a letter to Stephen Vaden, the Trump administration’s nominee for General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), to seek more information regarding the reassignments of several high-level career employees at USDA.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A High Bridge, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing images of child sexual abuse over the Internet, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after learning that 8.8 million Americans signed up for health care in 2018 through Healthcare.gov...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that “Operation Wintry Mix" resulted in the arrest of sixteen (16) defendants for outstanding federal charges in a coordinated warrant enforcement operation. In addition, three subjects...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a Finding of No Significant Impact and final Environmental Assessment for the Minnesota L75 Lateral Piping Project located in Delta County, Colorado. The project involves replacing approximately 0.58 mile of open irrigation ditch with buried water pipeline. The purpose of the project is to reduce salinity loading in the Colorado River Basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The former owner of 1st Class Sleep Diagnostic Center and 1st Class Medical, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
