News from June 2018
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today spoke on the floor of the U.S. Senate about the chamber’s consideration of the 2018 Farm Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 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 Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrest of JOEL DAVIS on charges of enticement of a minor...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today expressing his enduring grave concerns about the well-being of children currently in the custody of HHS’ Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), who were traumatically separated from their parents under the Trump Administration’s “zero tolerance" immigration policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: NASHVILLE, TN-The FBI is warning potential victims of a dramatic rise in the business e-mail compromise (BEC) scheme that targets businesses and has resulted in massive financial losses in Nashville and other cities.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), held a hearing today to discuss draft legislation to reauthorize the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). WHY: #SubCommTech Chairman Blackburn said, “Make no mistake, the...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 26, 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), issued the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposed renewable fuel volume obligations for 2019. EPA is required to finalize these obligations by Nov. 30, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced their latest efforts to improve the integrity of the Medicaid program following the release of state Medicaid data scorecards earlier this month.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 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 Energy hearing titled “The Shifting Geopolitics of Oil and Gas:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An Ohio university professor was indicted by a federal grand jury today for traveling to Kansas City, Mo., to engage in sexual activity with a person whom he believed to be a 14-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Jayron Khalil Foster, age 21, of Riverdale, Maryland, today to 282 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for production of child pornography. Judge Hazel also ordered that, upon his release from prison, Foster must register as a sex offender in the places where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), held a hearing today to discuss draft legislation to reauthorize the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). WHY: #SubCommTech Chairman Blackburn said, “Make no mistake, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Two men who participated in a series of armed bank robberies attributed to the “Bladed Bandit" because one of the robbers brandished a large knife each have pleaded guilty in federal court to multiple counts of armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Federal indictments were unsealed today charging current and former supervisory corrections officers at the Cheatham County Jail in Ashland City, Tennessee, with federal civil rights and obstruction offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sherri Polster Chappell has sentenced Alejo Guerrero (36, Lehigh Acres) to 12 years in federal prison for multiple firearms and controlled substance offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Katmai National Park & Preserve, King Salmon, Alaska - Katmai National Park and Preserve continues its centennial celebration throughout the summer with a series of webinars on explore.org/bears.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Roanoke, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke defense attorney, who engaged in sexual activities with his clients, exchanged legal services for sexual acts from his clients, possessed and used controlled substances, and lied to federal agents about his conduct, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Roanoke, United States Attorney Thomas T. Cullen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States District Judge Greg N. Stivers sentenced Charles Henry Ickes, 36, to 280 months in prison followed by 10 years’ Supervised Release, announced United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Robert C. “Bobby" Scott, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Betsy Devos requesting information on the troubling reports of the Department suspending ongoing collective bargaining negotiations with the union representing agency employees.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), held a hearing today on the benefits of American oil and gas development, and the associated jobs, economic development, energy security advantages, and geopolitical impacts. WHY: “Today, we are holding this hearing to take a closer...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 26, 2018
News Release: WHAT: The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), held a hearing today on the benefits of American oil and gas development, and the associated jobs, economic development, energy security advantages, and geopolitical impacts. WHY: “Today, we are holding this hearing to take a closer...
