News from January 2018
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) announced today a series of bills introduced by #SubCommTech members aimed at reducing the regulatory barriers to broadband infrastructure expansion.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Applications are now being accepted for the NextGen First Responder Technologies solicitation, an opportunity for a maximum conditional grant of up to $1 million, jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and the Israel Ministry of Public Security (MOPS).
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today commented on a new report issued today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report makes the case that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should update the public of its plans to issue guidance for nonbiological complex drugs. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agreed with GAO’s recommendations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI Offers Reward for Belen Bank Robber.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: CHALLIS, IDAHO - The Idaho Bureau of Land Management invites the public to submit comments as part of a statewide hearing regarding motor vehicle and helicopter use in wild horse management operations on Jan. 23, from1-2 p.m. at:.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today commented on a new report issued today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report makes the case that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should update the public of its plans to issue guidance for nonbiological complex drugs. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agreed with GAO’s recommendations.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr., (D-NJ), Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA), announced today...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - With nearly 550 new hires in 2017 and a drop in the average employee age of six years to 48, an effort by the Savannah River Site (SRS) management and operations contractor to address a looming increase in retirements is yielding positive results.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today commented on a new report issued today by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report makes the case that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should update the public of its plans to issue guidance for nonbiological complex drugs. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agreed with GAO’s recommendations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - An individual identified as a member of the Orchard Park Trailblazers Gang pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to selling crack cocaine in and around Roxbury’s Orchard Gardens Housing Development.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Later this week, the House of Representatives will consider a Continuing Resolution (CR) that will contain a provision to extend funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The provision will extend funding for CHIP for six years, the longest extension of CHIP in the program’s history. In recent days, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has updated its scoring of the provision, projecting a net savings over a six-year window.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Trump Administration’s elimination of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) last week, which was intended to provide the public with information on evidenced-based mental health and substance use disorder interventions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A leader of MS-13’s Hollywood Loco Salvatrucha (HLS) clique was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Public Assistance Regarding the Sticky Finger Bandit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Adam L. Smith, the former Chief Procurement Officer for the City of Atlanta, has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to accept more than $40,000 in bribe payments from a vendor who obtained millions of dollars in city contracts.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Trump Administration’s elimination of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) last week, which was intended to provide the public with information on evidenced-based mental health and substance use disorder interventions...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: In August 1999, the Peregrine falcon was removed from the federal endangered species list, a move prompted by the falcon’s comeback from the brink of extinction. However, throughout Texas there are less than a dozen known nesting pairs and the falcon remains on the state’s endangered species list.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Cost savings will result from two EM cleanup sites sharing highly specialized equipment for packaging and relocating nuclear waste to storage locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Beth Drake announced today that Brantley Thomas, 61, of Hanahan, South Carolina, pled guilty to a total of twenty federal charges involving Embezzlement, Money Laundering and Public Corruption. Evidence provided at the guilty plea established that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Chris Anthony Bellamy, age 34, and Andre Matrel Rogers, age 40, both of Myrtle Beach, pled guilty in federal court in Florence to possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base, in violation of Title 21...
