News from May 2017
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee hearing on “Improving America's Transportation Infrastructure: The Road Forward."
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Mark Preston French, 42, of Westerville, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to serve three months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $112,000 for defrauding an elderly client in a precious metals investment fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: CLEVELAND - An Akron, Ohio, man was ordered deported on Tuesday for failing to disclose his involvement in a military unit engaged in war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By State Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Dear Attorney General Sessions and Secretary Tillerson...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), accompanied by Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), announced today that the Ways and Means Committee will hold a tax reform hearing entitled “Increasing U.S. Competitiveness and Preventing American Jobs from Moving...
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Four Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats today urged their Republican counterparts to hold a hearing to examine the recent failure of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) website to handle the high volume of comments on the FCC’s net neutrality proceeding.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee today introduced a broad 21st Century infrastructure package that includes key areas within the Committee’s jurisdiction, including broadband, drinking water, healthcare, the electric grid, brownfields and renewable energy infrastructure. The Leading Infrastructure...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing examining the country’s emergency alerting systems.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Capping a nearly three-year investigation, federal, state and local law enforcement authorities this morning took into custody a total of 21 members and associates of Mara Salvatrucha, a transnational criminal street gang commonly called MS-13 that was formed in Los Angeles about 30 years ago.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With medical innovations on the rise, there’s plenty of reason for patients and their loved ones to have hope for new treatments and cures. The FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017 will boost these innovations, delivering for patients and manufacturers.
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), questioned Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao at a committee hearing on “Improving America's Transportation Infrastructure: the Road Forward."
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On May 17, 2017, Trudy E. Thomsenheather Jean Reekr, a 32 year-old resident of Missouri Valley, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 190 months in prison for transporting a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity, announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for his role in a carjacking, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on May 12, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Capping a nearly three-year investigation, federal, state and local law enforcement authorities this morning took into custody a total of 21 members and associates of Mara Salvatrucha, a transnational criminal street gang commonly called MS-13 that was formed in Los Angeles about 30 years ago.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: RICHMOND, Va.- On Saturday and Sunday, May 20 and 21, a lesser-known piece of the area’s rich Civil War history will come to light at Drewry’s Bluff as living historians, Park Rangers, and community partners explain the naval battle that tested Richmond’s defenses on May 15, 1862. This event is free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CLARENCE BELL, also known as “Solo," 21, of West Haven, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of Xanax, a Schedule IV controlled substance.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining four bipartisan bills to advance public health.
By EPA Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee today introduced a broad 21st Century infrastructure package that includes key areas within the Committee’s jurisdiction, including broadband, drinking water, healthcare, the electric grid, brownfields and renewable energy infrastructure. The Leading Infrastructure...
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing examining the country’s emergency alerting systems.
