News from January 2018
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- Bureau of Reclamation's January forecast of the April through July runoff predicted for the Bighorn Basin is as follows...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, voted in support of President Trump’s nominees for Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget and the Inspector General for the Export-Import Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jason M. VanBuren, age 42, of Cobleskill, New York, was ordered detained today following his January 5 arrest on charges of receiving and possessing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) applauded today’s House passage of the Taiwan Travel Act (H.R. 535 ) - which encourages visits between the United States and Taiwan at all levels - and H.R. 3320 - which counters the harmful and unacceptable efforts being made to undermine Taiwan’s inclusion at the World Health Organization. The two bills strengthen the critical U.S.-Taiwan partnership.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held its first hearing as part of the committee’s ‘DOE Modernization ’ series in which members will explore what is necessary to ensure effective execution of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) core national, economic, and energy security missions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced the former supervisor of an electric cooperative in Arab to more than two years in prison and ordered him to repay nearly $3 million he embezzled from the co-op over eight years, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Michael Williams and Tennessee Valley Authority Acting Inspector General Jill M. Matthews.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Shelly A. Binkowski, Inspector in Charge for the Boston Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to news reports on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections that a ten year reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) would save the government $6 billion...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: EM utilizes contractors to perform the vast majority of its work in the field. Looking back over your tenure, how good of a job do you think the Department does in soliciting and employing the best in private industry to perform the EM mission?
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) is seizing an opportunity to tackle the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant’s (PGDP) biggest source of groundwater contamination.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling, West Virginia man was indicted today by a grand jury on extortion charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: I have received numerous inquiries from members of the media, government officials, and others seeking guidance from this office about its approach to enforcing the federal marijuana laws. Those laws make the production, distribution and possession of marijuana illegal based on its classification by Congress as a Schedule I Controlled Substance because Congress determined that it has a high potential for abuse and dependence and has no acceptable medical use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: SAN JOSE - Alfred Georgis was sentenced this morning to 37 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to transport stolen goods in interstate commerce, announced Acting United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held its first hearing as part of the committee’s ‘DOE Modernization ’ series in which members will explore what is necessary to ensure effective execution of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) core national, economic, and energy security missions.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Energy Subcommittee hearing on “DOE Modernization: Advancing DOE’s Mission for National, Economic, and Energy Security of the United States:"
By State Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming committee events...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Work Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) questioned Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt on his appointment of two advisors to serve on EPA's Federal Advisory Committees ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Barbara K. Temeck, 67, of Cincinnati, was convicted in U.S. District Court today of one count of distributing a controlled substance.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to news reports on Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections that a ten year reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) would save the government $6 billion...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to a news report from E&E News regarding EPA’s decision to cut funding to the Bay Journal, a newspaper focused on the Chesapeake Bay...
