News from February 2018
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that the Department of Energy (DOE) will award 179 grants totaling $30 million to 149 small businesses in 36 states. Funded through DOE’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, today’s selections are for Phase I research and development.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Kimberly, Oregon - When spring arrives at Painted Hills, it means the hillsides will be blooming with wildflowers once again, including the picturesque yellow flowers Golden Bee Cleome and John Day Chaenactis. The flowers typically peak in mid-May, just in time for Mother’s Day and a wildflower hike!.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing titled “State of the Nation’s Energy Infrastructure:"
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS PROGRAM FOR SUMMER.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Senate confirmation of Bill Northey to serve as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today is pleased to announce that William Northey was approved by the U.S. Senate.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office site services contractor Mission Support Alliance (MSA), according to a recently released scorecard.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DERRICK WHITE, also known as “Fly," 53, of Hamden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 188 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for committing armed robberies of the Allingtown Post Office in West Haven and the Wells Fargo Bank in Hamden on April 21, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), announced a hearing for Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration."
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Dear Inspectors General Horowitz and Linick...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Ryan T. Card, 22, of Caribou, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), announced a hearing for Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: U.S. Citizen Charged With Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced bipartisan legislation to promote sustainable growth in developing economies through U.S. business investment and provide more accountability for taxpayers ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney, Richard W. Moore, announces that Craig Miller, a 34 year old, resident of Foley, Alabama was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to perform 300 hours of community service. During the first six months of his probationary term, Miller will be on home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Kay Ann Locke, of Edmond, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for stealing nearly half a million dollars from her employer and filing a false federal tax return, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing examining the state of America’s infrastructure and what we can do to further modernize our energy infrastructure and improve workforce training and development in the energy sector.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House voted 400-2 to pass H.R. 4979. This bipartisan legislation provides a three-year renewal of the Generalized System of Preferences program, a longstanding U.S. trade preference program that delivers tariff relief and cost savings to American businesses, workers, and consumers across the country.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing titled “State of the Nation’s Energy Infrastructure:"
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), along with Health Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Ranking Member Levin (D-MI) today sent Requests for Information (RFIs) to key stakeholders on ways to prevent and treat...
