News from June 2017
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today passed eleven #SubEnergy bills aimed at advancing the nation’s energy infrastructure and improving energy efficiency. The bills now move to the full House of Representatives for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Robert C. Jones to 18 months in prison for breaking and entering into a U.S. Postal Service vehicle and stealing mail from the vehicle, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 was unanimously reported out of the Energy and Commerce Committee...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Full Committee markup of 15 bills including the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lelander Mays, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Red Mesa, Utah, pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an involuntary manslaughter charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Plea Agreement Recommends 140-Month Prison Sentence.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
Release: KEARNEY, Neb. - A temporary application center for the popular TSA Pre✓® program will be open at Kearney Regional Airport (EAR) June 26 - 30.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today passed eleven #SubEnergy bills aimed at advancing the nation’s energy infrastructure and improving energy efficiency. The bills now move to the full House of Representatives for consideration.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Some Reclamation facility operators are managing heightened levels of water runoff this year in light of especially wet winter and spring seasons. This is good news for Reclamation’s water deliveries with water allocations in most areas exceeding those of recent years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - A total of 16 defendants were handed prison terms ranging from 21 months to 18 years for trafficking methamphetamine, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees presided over the court hearings, which began on Monday, June 5, 2017, and concluded today with the sentencing of the last defendant.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A former employee with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) was sentenced in federal court Wednesday for theft of government property.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, June 14, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “States’ Perspectives on Energy Security Planning, Emergency Preparedness, and State Energy Programs."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Paris Wilder, age 30, of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on June 6, 2017, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A District of Columbia man was sentenced today to three years and one month in federal prison for a gun charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Nicholas Loukas, 31, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to make false statements on records kept by licensed firearms dealers.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 was unanimously reported out of the Energy and Commerce Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. --Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Karl L. McKenzie, Sr., 47, Anoka, Minn., was found guilty yesterday of distributing 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. The jury reached its verdict after one hour of deliberation following a two-day trial in federal court in Madison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 was unanimously reported out of the Energy and Commerce Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs held a legislative hearing on a series of bills that would empower Indian and Alaska Native communities to direct their own affairs. They place decision-making power in the hands of those most qualified to make decisions on local issues: the tribes and communities themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jeffrey Overton, 57, McGregor, Iowa, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to five months in federal prison for income tax evasion. Overton pleaded guilty to this charge on March 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Culpeper man entered a plea of not guilty today to criminal charges that he had sex with a minor on multiple occasions.
