News published on Federal Newswire in June 2017

News from June 2017


News Release: FBI and the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Seek the Public’s Assistance in Identifying Mt. Washington Bank Robber.


News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Join experimental archaeologist Zack Curcija and learn about how the Salado wove elaborate textiles and created stone and shell beads on.


Justice Department Secures the Denaturalization of a Repeat Child Sex Abuser

News Release: Justice Department Secures the Denaturalization of a Repeat Child Sex Abuser.


News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, as the nation prepares to celebrate July 4th, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), and Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Robert Brady (D-PA) announced the formation of a Task Force to ensure the health and security of our nation’s election systems.


#SubCommTech Chair Blackburn Comments on GAO Lifeline Report

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing waste, fraud, and abuse within the FCC’s Lifeline program.


Federal Protective Service Officer Indicted for Civil Rights Violation

News Release: LOS ANGELES - An officer with the Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service was named today in an indictment that charges him with violating the civil rights of a person in handcuffs by kicking him in the head.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today issued the following statement after Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report detailing waste, fraud, and abuse within the FCC’s Lifeline program.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Iselin, New Jersey, man who worked as an emergency medical technician and volunteer firefighter was charged today with soliciting a child to take nude pictures of himself and send them online, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Subcommittee Chairman Tom Marino (R-PA), and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt.


News Release: DENVER - Daniel Ray Dace, age 25, of Pueblo, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 168 months (14 years) in federal prison, followed by 3 years on supervised release for firearm and drug related crimes, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced. Dace, who appeared at the hearing in custody, was remanded at its conclusion.


News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - This holiday weekend, Yellowstone National Park rangers ask all park visitors to arrive in the park prepared for a safe, pleasurable, and rewarding experience. Protect yourself and your park by following these tips.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced the Committee voted to favorably report the nomination of J. Christopher Giancarlo to serve as Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Giancarlo may now be considered by the full U.S. Senate for confirmation.


Italy

Release: Italy’s economy, the eighth largest in the world, is fully diversified, and distinctively dominated by small and medium-sized firms (SMEs), which comprise 99.9 percent of Italian businesses. Italy continues to lag behind many industrialized nations as a recipient of foreign direct investment; Germany ...


Pallone’s Opening Remarks at Health Subcommittee Markup

News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup on four public health bills...


Release: Macedonia formed a new, reform-oriented government on May 31, 2017, that committed to putting the country back on the path to EU and NATO integration. The country had been mired in a political crisis since 2015 after the release of excerpts from illegally intercepted communications suggesting high-level ...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a markup examining four bipartisan public health bills.


Pallone on GAO Report on Lifeline Program

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to a report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Lifeline Program, a program that has provided discounted and no-charge phone service for low-income Americans for over three decades...


Release: The overall investment climate in Azerbaijan continues to improve, although significant challenges remain. Over the past years, the Government of Azerbaijan has worked to integrate the country more fully into the global marketplace, attract foreign investment, diversify its economy, undertake further ...


Madison Man Charged with Sex Trafficking of Minor

News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today the unsealing of an indictment that charges Radames Hendrix, 42, Madison, Wis., with sex trafficking of a minor and sex trafficking using force, threats, and coercion. This sealed indictment was returned by a federal grand jury on June 22.


Pallone on GAO Report on Lifeline Program

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to a report released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Lifeline Program, a program that has provided discounted and no-charge phone service for low-income Americans for over three decades...