News from June 2018
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection markup of H.R. 6032, the SMART IoT Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, MS - Juan Luis Cantu a/k/a "Flaco," age 24, of La Joya, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 74 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge J. Derryle Smith. Cantu was also ordered to pay a $3,000 fine.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This morning, the House Republican Conference held their weekly press conference with a special focus on patient stories.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today advanced by voice vote H.R. 6032, the SMART IoT Act, to the full committee for consideration.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Four House Democratic committee leaders wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today demanding answers on their involvement in the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) decision to ask a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced the “Place to Worship Initiative," which will focus on protecting the ability of houses of worship and other religious institutions to build, expand, buy, or rent facilities-as provided by the land use provisions of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA).
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 13, 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 President Trump's announcement that he intends to nominate Mary Neumayr to be a member of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). President Trump has indicated he will designate Neumayr to chair the CEQ once the full Senate confirms her. Neumayr currently serves as the chief of staff at CEQ.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced RODERICK MCNEILL, 23, of Lumberton, North Carolina to 40 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced four winners for the American Inventions Made Onshore (AIM Onshore) Prize Competition released by DOE earlier this year. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Daniel Simmons, made the announcement today at the 2018 MForesight National Summit in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: At the Time of His Arrest, Defendant was Armed and Planning to Supply Three Pounds of Methamphetamine to a Local Methamphetamine Distributor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, delivered the following opening remarks during the Committee markup of H.R. 4423, the “North Texas Water Supply Security Act of 2017."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology markup of four communications bills...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, sent a letter to President Donald Trump in response to troubling reports that he is using his authority as president to launch political attacks against Amazon and its founder, Jeff Bezos, and to pressure the Postal Service to raise its rates for Amazon.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This morning, the House Republican Conference held their weekly press conference with a special focus on patient stories.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Montana Man Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for Designing Fraudulent Mail Solicitations for Use in Transnational Elder Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: El Dorado, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Ian Mitchell Ashcraft, age 28, of Crossett, Arkansas was sentenced yesterday to 72 months in federal prison followed by fifteen years of supervised release on one count each of Receiving Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography. The Honorable Susan O. Hickey presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in El Dorado.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today advanced by voice vote H.R. 6032, the SMART IoT Act, to the full committee for consideration.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This morning, the House Republican Conference held their weekly press conference with a special focus on patient stories.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: Forty- Seven Arrests in Washington State -As many as Nine to be Prosecuted Federally.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Tomorrow, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will deliver keynote remarks at the Washington Examiner’s “Examining Opioids" breakfast event.
