News from February 2017
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Self-Driving Cars: Road to Deployment."
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: The Concessions Office at Olympic National Park provides business opportunities in several types of visitor services, including fishing guides, tour operators and firewood suppliers. All commercial business operators must have a current National Park Service Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) before conducting business within the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Jermine T. Prosper was sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling and trafficking approximately 50 firearms to Guyana during a two-year period. Prosper legally purchased the firearms in the Atlanta area with the intention of smuggling the guns to Guyana and later selling them there.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Anthony Lee Gambino, 44, of Farmington, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to violating the federal firearms laws and making false representations about having received military medals and decorations.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced further process reforms at the agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Clarksburg, West Virginia man has been indicted for allegedly possessing a firearm after two domestic violence convictions, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai announced further process reforms at the agency.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) denounced Republican efforts to “strengthen" Medicaid by removing or excluding certain people from Medicaid at a Health Subcommittee markup today...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Self-Driving Cars: Road to Deployment."
By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, today issued the following statement after the Senate voted to confirm Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos...
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: I’d like to thank our witnesses for testifying today, and for your service to our country. I hope your experiences can be informative as we take stock of our efforts against ISIS.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) denounced Republican efforts to “strengthen" Medicaid by removing or excluding certain people from Medicaid at a Health Subcommittee markup today...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: FEB 07 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Ross Tardif, 30, of Minot, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 7½ years in prison...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry today announced changes to his senior professional Committee staff.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A recent report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues to rely on inaccurate, incomplete, and untimely Medicaid data. Released yesterday, the report outlines how such issues limit the agency’s ability to ensure that federal payments to states are proper and that Medicaid beneficiaries have access to services.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a markup examining two commonsense bills to strengthen Medicaid and prioritize the most vulnerable.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) received a letter today from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army notifying him that the Army will move forward, as soon as tomorrow, with granting an easement to the company building the Dakota Access Pipeline.
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement in response to reports that Russian democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza has fallen into a coma caused by poisoning...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: MOAB, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Canyon Country Fire Zone plans to conduct a prescribed burn of slash piles on approximately 60 acres of public lands in the Ford Ridge area west of U.S. Highway 6 and approximately 17 miles north of Price, UT. Burn operations will take place beginning in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2017
News Release: Smith Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative and HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
