News from November 2017
By DOE Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), held a joint hearing today on algorithms and their impact on consumers.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a business meeting to consider the nominations of Kathleen Hartnett White, of Texas, to be a Member of the Council on Environmental Quality, Andrew Wheeler, of Virginia, to be Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and 19 General Services Administration resolutions. Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 29, 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 business meeting.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), held a joint hearing today on algorithms and their impact on consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced KINDRA DENISE ARNOLD, 45, of Warsaw, NC to 74 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A former employee at a Lake Tahoe children’s ski school was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for child sexual exploitation, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held its eighth hearing as part of the committee’s ongoing ‘Powering America ’ series. #SubEnergy examined the role and effects financial trading has in the nation’s wholesale electricity markets and whether market design changes are necessary to ensure the efficiency of financial transactions and to protect against improper trading activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Colby Edward Steele, 32, of Alamogordo, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition. Steele will serve 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for enticing a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity and producing child pornography.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a joint Subcommittees on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection and Communications and Technology hearing titled “Algorithms: How Companies’ Decisions About Data and Content Impact Consumers:"
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Annual winter closures to motorized and mechanized vehicles begin Dec. 1 in specific areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado River Valley Field Office to protect critical big game winter range and prevent road damage.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Media Contacts: Leni Fortson, 215-861-5102, uddyback-fortson.lenore@dol.gov. Joanna Hawkins, 215-861-5101, hawkins.joanna@dol.gov. Release Number: 17-1566-PHI (osha 17-032). -------------------------------. U.S. Department of Labor news materials are accessible at
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Billy Groce Illegally Shipped and Sold Veterinary Drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Patrick D. Angelo, 28, of Syracuse, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with interstate communication of a threat, and threatening a federal official. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann in Williamsport, to serve an additional seven years in prison for assaulting a federal correctional officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the guilty plea of JOSEPH ARNOLD MCGLYNN, JR., 33, former owner, CEO and President of United Credit Consulting (“UCC"), for failing to account for and pay over employment taxes. MCGLYNN, JR., who was indicted on August 8, 2017, pleaded guilty yesterday before Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Full Committee held an oversight hearing to discuss improving and modernizing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).The panel discussed deficiencies in NEPA’s implementation and potential legislative improvements to enable the law to best serve its intended purpose.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Dear Senators and Representatives: . "Ask five economists," as the Edgar Fiedler adage goes, "and you'll get five different answers." . Yet, when it comes to the tax reform package aimed at fixing our broken system, the undersigned have but one shared perspective: Economic growth will accelerate if the...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service at the Eisenhower National Historic Site and the Gettysburg Foundation invite you to celebrate this holiday season at the home and farm of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower. The Eisenhower home will be decorated for Christmas, December 1 through 31, 2017. The celebration includes...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced a federal indictment charging three members of the North Minneapolis-based 1-9 Block Dipset Gang with crimes related to violent gang activity, including conspiracy, possession and distribution of heroin, and illegal possession of firearms ...
