News from January 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Investigators discovered over 200 grams of methamphetamine concealed in defendant’s couch.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking public comments on its draft environmental assessment (EA) on a proposal to add new motorized and non-motorized trails to the Fourmile Trail System outside Buena Vista.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing examining 25 bills that seek to improve broadband infrastructure across the country. Members engaged with a panel of seven expert witnesses who provided a range of perspectives on this important issue.
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Johnson, Larson Statement on the Social Security Advisory Board’s New Representative Payee Program Report.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, February 6, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “DOE Modernization: Advancing the Economic and National Security Benefits of America’s Nuclear Infrastructure."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been sentenced to four and a half years in federal prison for illegally buying 17 handguns in Indiana and bringing them across the border to Chicago.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) released the following statement after the State of the Union address by President Donald Trump...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania Financial Crimes Task Force (WPFCTF) investigation culminated Tuesday in the sentencing of three Florida residents in federal court on a charge of conspiracy to commit identity theft.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Supervisory Special Agent Celestino Martinez will attend the State of Union Address as a guest of President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump in recognition of Martinez's extraordinary work combatting transnational criminal gangs in New York.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Implementation of the Compounding Quality Act"
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today unanimously advanced H.R. 3477, Ceiling Fan Energy Conservation Harmonization Act, to the full committee for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - On Jan. 29, 2018, United States District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Demetrius Murray, age 23, of Silver Spring, Maryland to 21 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for Production of Child Pornography. Judge Hazel also ordered forfeiture of electronic devices seized from Murray and used by Murray to produce and store child pornography. Murray is also required to register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Bipartisan committee leaders sent letters last week to two regional drug distributors, Miami-Luken and H.D. Smith, expanding on its ongoing investigation into alleged pill dumping in the state of West Virginia. The letters were sent by full committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), full committee Ranking...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM continues to expand its presence on Facebook with the recent debut of the Idaho Cleanup Project and Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) pages.
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce issued the following statement after the president’s State of the Union Address...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled “Closing the Digital Divide: Broadband Infrastructure Solutions:"
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 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), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing: “Oversight Hearing to Receive Testimony from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt."
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union Address.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Brady, Reichert Praise Passage of the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill Act.
