News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a man from Washington state was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement regarding the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) score of the American Health Care Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Storey, 67, of Gardena, California, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to 33 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By EPA Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Fresh off #SubHealth’s unanimous passage of the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017 last week, Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) recorded a brief video about what the important bill will do and next steps.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Mark Isaac Yetter, 34, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn to serve a total of 13 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in June 2016 to one count of transporting and shipping of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Mr. Chairman, recently the House passed a bill that would take away health insurance from 24 million Americans, raise premiums and out-of-pocket costs on millions more, take away coverage guarantees, place an age tax on older Americans and if that’s not enough, raids Medicare. Middle-class Americans would be on the front lines of these cuts while the proposal provides substantial tax cuts for the millionaires and billionaires--$7 million a year to the 400 richest Americans.
By US DOT Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, welcomed Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Secretary Shawn Garvin to a hearing of the Environment and Public Works Committee Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety focusing on ozone pollution standards set by the Clean Air Act.
By USDA Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C., May 24-Research hydrologist Dr. Michael H. Cosh with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland, was honored today with an Arthur S. Flemming Award for using satellites to improve soil moisture measurements. The enhanced accuracy...
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Mesa Verde National Park invites you to join us on May 26, 2017 at the Far View Lodge Library at 7:00 pm for a presentation from Brad Bachmeier, the current Artist in Residence for the park. Mr. Bachmeier will discuss his unique approach to ceramic arts and show examples of his work. This event is free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Robert Storey, 67, of Gardena, California, who was convicted of wire fraud, was sentenced to 33 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Juran Maghi Witherspoon, age 18, of Charlotte, was sentenced on a charge stemming from his involvement in the pre-dawn break-in and theft of firearms from The Gun Shop in Simpsonville in October of 2016. Judge Bruce Howe Hendricks, of Charleston, sentenced Witherspoon to 30 months in the Bureau of Prisons and ordered him to pay over $48,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - TAMI LEE JOHNSON, of Midwest City, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty yesterday to check forgery, in connection with approximately $624,265.01 of embezzlement from a local real estate management company, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Fresh off #SubHealth’s unanimous passage of the FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017 last week, Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) recorded a brief video about what the important bill will do and next steps.
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2017
Release: 73 Grants Will Support Scientific Advancement and Job Creation
By DOL Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) issued the following statement on President Trump’s budget proposal released this morning for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS):
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: I’d like to thank my friend Tom Rice for leading today’s joint subcommittee hearing, in the absence of our Chairman Sam Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Two members of the Nine Trey Gangsters pleaded guilty today to their respective roles in four murders and multiple shootings.
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 126,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 22, 2017, Jeffrey Matchopatow (age: 32) of Keshena, Wisconsin was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach to 26 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release. In March, Matchopatow pled guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today in federal court in Springfield for distributing cocaine and crack cocaine and for selling firearms and ammunition to a convicted felon.
