News from February 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: “The president seems determined to ensure this budget request is discarded even more quickly than his last one.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - Charges were unsealed today against five former Venezuelan government officials for their alleged participation in an international money laundering scheme involving bribes made to corruptly secure energy contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA). Two of the five defendants are also charged with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: Update: FBI Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Deerfield Beach.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Emily Allen (619) 546-9738 and Benjamin Katz (619) 546-9604.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, President Donald Trump proposed a $1.049 billion Fiscal Year 2019 budget for the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation. The budget supports the Department's goals of ensuring the provision of secure and reliable water supplies, the efficient generation of American energy, celebration of America's resources and recreational opportunities, and fulfilling commitments to tribal nations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: Man Arrested for Physical Threats Attempting to Interfere with an Investigation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: Park Operations - The FY 2019 NPS budget requests $2.4 billion for park operations, which includes $900,000 for NPS’s role in the Department of the Interior’s reorganization to common regional boundaries to improve service and efficiency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gerald A. Lawson III, 30, of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, was charged by criminal complaint for allegedly acting as a straw purchaser for Quentin L. Smith, a convicted felon who shot and killed two Westerville Police Officers on February 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Information from a Bank Robbery in Margate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KHADAFI CASTRO, 40, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 40 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement on President Trump’s infrastructure proposal...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today highlighted his bill permanently reauthorizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which funds public land acquisitions and conservation efforts across the country, and underscored the bill’s 219 House cosponsors as a rebuke to President Trump’s budget proposal slashing LWCF land acquisition by approximately 90 percent from fiscal year 2017 levels.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence couple has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges they allegedly participated in a conspiracy to smuggle significant quantities of cocaine from the Dominican Republic into Rhode Island. The indictment, returned on February 8, 2017, and unsealed by the Court on...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement on President Trump’s infrastructure proposal...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry released the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2019 budget request. The proposal cuts the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by 16 percent, on top of cutting Farm Bill investments by $260 billion - a $30 billion increase in Farm Bill cuts from the previous year’s proposal.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 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), released the following statement in response to President Trump's infrastructure plan...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following the release of the Trump administration’s FY 2019 budget proposal, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and House Agriculture Committee Chairman K. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, issued the joint statement below...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced Mike Bloomquist, currently the committee’s Deputy Staff Director, will be named Staff Director effective immediately.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a markup for Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2018, at 3:30 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on President Trump’s budget request for Fiscal Year 2019.
