News from January 2018
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced today that a second round of broadband infrastructure bills have been introduced by #SubCommTech members. The bills focus on supporting innovation and advancing broadband infrastructure in rural communities.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Dear Acting Secretary Hargan:. I write with serious concern about the numerous instances in which the Department of Health and Human Services (the Department or HHS) has rolled back or undermined evidence-based practices and policies under the Trump Administration. The emerging pattern at HHS of undermining...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 17, 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 on the announcement that multiple uranium producers have jointly filed a petition with the U.S. Commerce Department to investigate the effects of uranium imports on U.S. national security.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, joined the POLITICO Money Podcast with Ben White to discuss the state of our country's infrastructure, the possibilities of passing infrastructure legislation in the 115th Congress and ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a report Wednesday, “Drugs for Dollars: How Medicaid Helps Fuel the Opioid Epidemic," detailing cases involving Medicaid fraud and how the Medicaid program has contributed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging NICOLAS DE-MEYER with the interstate...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs and the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) are pleased to co-sponsor the 2018 monthly webinar series, entitled Tribal Sovereignty and Self-Determination through Community Energy Development. The series is intended for...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee Mark-up on H.R. 1876, Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2017; H.R. 2026, Pharmaceutical Information Exchange Act; and H.R. __, Over-the-Counter Monograph Safety, Innovation, and Reform Act of 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: A New Mexico man pleaded guilty today in St. Paul, Minnesota, for directing computer attacks against the websites of his prior employers, business competitors and public services, as well as felon-in-possession charges. Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Department of Justice’s Criminal...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee Mark-up on H.R. 1876, Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2017; H.R. 2026, Pharmaceutical Information Exchange Act; and H.R. __, Over-the-Counter Monograph Safety, Innovation, and Reform Act of 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Collingswood, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for conspiring with his former girlfriend to produce sexually explicit images of two children, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that BERNARD HARRIS, 33, of Bridgeport, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in two fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Susan M. Ruhe, 54, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 21 months in prison and four years of supervised release for one count of bank fraud. Ruhe defrauded her former employer, Procter & Gamble, of more than $454,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher Joshua Cortes, 33, of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 63 months in prison for his conviction on a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Cortes will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: USPS letter carrier arranged to deliver packages containing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Joy McShan Edwards, 37, of Steubenville, was convicted in U.S. District Court today of retaliation against a witness.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today spoke on the Senate floor regarding the critical healthcare provisions he helped secure in the proposed government funding bill. Specifically, Hatch emphasized the six-year extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP),...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nathaniel Eddie Madrid, 40, of Carlsbad, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 57 months in prison for violating the federal firearms laws by unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition. Madrid will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure held the hearing, “America's Water Infrastructure Needs and Challenges: Federal Panel " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
