News from December 2018
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) and committee ranking member Tom Carper (D-DE), along with Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), chair and ranking member of the EPW Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, released the following statements on the Senate's passage of S. 512 , the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Randall Lee Barker, of Mount Clare, West Virginia has admitted to drug distribution and was sentenced to 36 months probation, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A nine-count indictment was unsealed today after the arrests of Heidi Phong, 36, of Elk Grove, and Zhen Shang Lin, 37, of Riverside.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: John Ficarra and Mara Ficarra Targeted Thousands of Elderly Victims.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and #SubEnergy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after the Senate passed H.R. 1733 by unanimous consent. The bills now head to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Bipartisan legislation to provide greater flexibility and ease burdens on local communities working to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) wastewater and storm water standards under the Clean Water Act was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday evening by a vote of 351 to 10.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statement after U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a proposed rule to update Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) requirements for states to qualify for waivers from work time-limits for able-bodied adults without dependents.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Allegedly Defrauded Investors of Millions of Dollars by Posing as a British Billionaire with Inside Track on New Companies.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the committee released a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO). The watchdog’s report, “Information Security: Significant Progress Made, but CDC Needs to Take Further Action to Resolve Control Deficiencies and Improve Its Program," is the result...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - Law Enforcement Officers of the Bureau of Land Management are conducting a driving under the influence and registration checkpoint between the hours of noon to 2 a.m., from December 27 to Jan. 1, 2019, on BLM public lands in Imperial County, including the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced thatJOSE ANGEL ESPINOZA-FUENTES, age 42, a native of Honduras, was sentenced yesterday after pleading guilty to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that OLUKAYODE IBRAHIM LAWAL, 36, a citizen of Nigeria last residing in Smyrna, Georgia, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to a conspiracy charge stemming from a scheme to obtain the personal identifying information of school employees in Connecticut and elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Three Others Charged with International Money Laundering and Marijuana Manufacturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - An armed robber has been sentenced in U.S. District Court for the robbery of a Broken Arrow QuikTrip, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: Defendants Were Members of the APT 10 Hacking Group Who Acted in Association with the Tianjin State Security Bureau and Engaged in Global Computer Intrusions for More Than a Decade, Continuing into 2018, Including Thefts from Managed Service Providers and.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and #SubEnergy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after the Senate passed H.R. 1733 by unanimous consent. The bills now head to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced that Sarah Paxton, 25, of Lake Charles, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Donald E. Walter, to 120 months in prison and three years of supervised release for her role in kidnapping a Texas man after a failed drug deal.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and #SubEnergy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement after the Senate passed H.R. 1733 by unanimous consent. The bills now head to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today joined Ranking Member Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), President Trump and others at the White House for a signing ceremony of their historic, bipartisan Farm Bill.
