News from February 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement after President Donald Trump laid out his health care reform proposals in a joint address to Congress.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following executive orders from President Trump today on the harmful EPA Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Eric Michael Perez, age 20, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced late last week by U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer to serve 70 months (nearly 6 years) in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and ATF Special Agent in Charge Debora ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke about the importance of preventing doping in international sports at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on “Ways to Improve and Strengthen the International Anti-Doping System:"
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), continuing their oversight efforts in examining the agency’s Laboratory Response Network (LRN). The LRN was established to boost our federal preparedness for bioterrorism.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MATTHEW DRAGONE, 32, of Middletown, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbing six banks, and attempting to rob a seventh bank, in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Milford, Ohio, man today admitted using an Essex County, New Jersey, medical company’s credit card without the company’s permission or consent to fraudulently obtain more than $950,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - After returning from a trip to the Middle East last week, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a hearing on the U.S. plan to defeat ISIS, focusing on Iraq after the operation to liberate Mosul. Last week, Corker visited Iraq ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure convened a legislative markup earlier today and unanimously approved the following measures to help America’s veterans and improve federal emergency management response...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: Carl Ghattas Named Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: I want to thank our witnesses for testifying today. We appreciate your willingness to come before this committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - James Kenny Crawley, 60, of Amarillo, Texas, appeared today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater and pleaded guilty to one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Jeannette Hardy, 26, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison based upon her conviction for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Feb. 27, 2017, Curtis Lee Dale, 44, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 300 months in prison for conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams and more of cocaine, 28 grams and...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the international anti-doping system. The hearing came after a bipartisan July 2016 letter to the International Olympic Committee and a series of reports on doping incidents.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: There’s a new management team at EM's two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion facilities, with Mid-America Conversion Services (MCS) now in place as the facilities’ operating contractor.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the international anti-doping system. The hearing came after a bipartisan July 2016 letter to the International Olympic Committee and a series of reports on doping incidents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: FEB 28 - BOSTON - A New Bedford woman was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Boston for stashing drugs in her home for a drug trafficking ring that operated in Bristol County, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford woman was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston for stashing drugs in her home for a drug trafficking ring that operated in Bristol County, Mass., and Providence, R.I.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), today expressed her concerns to the Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Thomas Homan after he declined to attend a hearing this week focused on several criminal cases involving individuals that had entered the United States illegally.
