News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today advanced four Energy and Commerce Committee bills to improve public health. All four of the bills considered by the House of Representatives today previously passed the House in the 114th Congress by voice vote.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today appointed 39 members to the National Potato Promotion Board. Each representative will serve a 3-year term of office beginning March 1, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the full Republican rosters for all six subcommittees in the 115th Congress. Walden last week announced the committee’s leadership, naming the Vice Chairman for the full committee along with subcommittee chairmen and vice chairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Lenin Gutierrez, 39, of Cranston, was ordered detained in federal custody today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with bank robbery. It is alleged that Gutierrez robbed a Citizens Bank branch office inside a Stop & Shop supermarket in Johnston on Dec. 30, 2016.
By Federal Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
CARLSBAD – U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, alongside members of the New Mexico delegation including Governor Susana Martinez, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce and Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Carlsbad Mayor Dale Janway, acknowledged the official reopening and resumption of waste operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). WIPP is the nation’s first deep-geological facility for the disposal of defense-related transuranic (TRU) radioactive waste and is located 26 miles east of Carlsbad, NM. Waste emplacement activities were halted in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Texas woman pleaded guilty Monday to selling designer drugs manufactured in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - In unrelated cases, two Lubbock, Texas, men, who each pleaded guilty in September 2016 to one count of attempted enticement of a minor, were sentenced on Friday to hefty federal prison sentences, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Esteban Santiago Ruiz (Santiago) had his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Alicia O. Valle this morning in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Santiago is being temporarily detained without bond. A detention hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017 at 1:00 p.m., before United States Magistrate Judge Lurana S. Snow in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: MEXICO CITY - On Saturday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Mexico's Secretary of Energy Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, along with Federal Energy Regulatory Commision (FERC) Chairman Norman Bay, Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) Chairman Guillermo Ignacio Garcia Alcocer and National Center for Energy...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the full Republican rosters for all six subcommittees in the 115th Congress. Walden last week announced the committee’s leadership, naming the Vice Chairman for the full committee along with subcommittee chairmen and vice chairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced today to three years and 11 months in federal prison for a drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Djuan Levell Washington, 28, previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Three Guilty Pleas to Date in Bitcoin and Bribery Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: UKIAH, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will host free guided hikes to look for wintering bald eagles in the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument in Lake County on Saturdays, beginning Jan. 21 and continuing through Feb. 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Martin Aleksandrov Enev, age 27, a Bulgarian national residing in Randallstown, Maryland, today to 33 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, for possession of device-making equipment with the intent to defraud, and identity theft.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the full Republican rosters for all six subcommittees in the 115th Congress. Walden last week announced the committee’s leadership, naming the Vice Chairman for the full committee along with subcommittee chairmen and vice chairs.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today advanced four Energy and Commerce Committee bills to improve public health. All four of the bills considered by the House of Representatives today previously passed the House in the 114th Congress by voice vote.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Cincinnati - The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of a Time and Materials, Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to SUNSi JV, LLC, of Pocatello, ID. SUNSi JV, LLC is a Small Business. The contract will have a maximum value of up to $4 million over 5 years. Work performed...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today advanced four Energy and Commerce Committee bills to improve public health. All four of the bills considered by the House of Representatives today previously passed the House in the 114th Congress by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An Ohio man who was responsible for numerous overdoses in Huntington in August 2016 pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Bruce Lamar Griggs, also known as “Ben" and “Benz," 22, of Akron, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Two Huntington men were sentenced to federal prison today for drug crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Darnell Lamar Anderson, 37, was sentenced to four years and three months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. In a separate prosecution, Roger Page, 50, was sentenced to three years and a month in prison for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
