News from February 2017

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Stole $43,100 and threatened to kill bank employees, customers and an alleged child held hostage.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke about the importance of continued improvements to our nation’s efforts to defend against cybersecurity threats to the electricity grid at an Energy Subcommittee hearing today titled, “The Electricity Sector’s Efforts to Respond to Cybersecurity Threats:"

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: A Richfield man was indicted on charges that he illegally failed to pay nearly $350,000 in income taxes by using a business account to pay personal expenses over nearly a decade, said Carole S. Rendon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following Senate Finance Committee Democrats’ unprecedented move to boycott two cabinet level committee confirmation votes, the Committee today passed a unanimous consent (UC) motion to suspend a rule regarding quorum requirements for nomination votes in an executive session to consider Steven Mnuchin to serve as U.S. Treasury Secretary and Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) to serve as Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing tomorrow on several Republican health care bills, including one proposed by Full Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) that he says will make sure people with pre-existing conditions continue to get covered.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) defended the importance of Medicaid today at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Strengthening Medicaid and Prioritizing the Most Vulnerable":
By DOE Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today kicked-off its first hearing of the 115th Congress examining the electricity sector’s efforts to respond to cybersecurity threats.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Jill M. Evans, age 51, of Littleton, Colorado, recently pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to wire fraud and money laundering charges announced the United States Attorney’s Office, IRS - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Evans was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 21, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced that Ryan Freeman, 27, of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court today to one count of bank robbery.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Julian Brown, 22, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to violating the federal firearms laws under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: The Local Project Development Teams (LPDTs) for the Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) will meet at various locations in southwest Wyoming during February.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining three legislative proposals that would strengthen Medicaid and prioritize the most vulnerable.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: National Park Service Fee Free Days in 2017.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: A man with residences in Akron and Barberton was indicted on firearms and fentanyl charges, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing tomorrow on several Republican health care bills, including one proposed by Full Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) that he says will make sure people with pre-existing conditions continue to get covered.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Dear Mr. Botel and Mr. Rosenfelt...

By EPA Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke about the importance of continued improvements to our nation’s efforts to defend against cybersecurity threats to the electricity grid at an Energy Subcommittee hearing today titled, “The Electricity Sector’s Efforts to Respond to Cybersecurity Threats:"

By DOE Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining three legislative proposals that would strengthen Medicaid and prioritize the most vulnerable.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: Florida Department of Health supervisor sentenced to prison for accepting a bribe.

By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the Senate’s confirmation of former Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State...