News from March 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Previously Involved With Youth Basketball in Iowa.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will conduct a contract negotiation session with the Sacramento Suburban Water District on contract terms and conditions for a long-term Warren Act contract.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Preston James, age 39, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for distributing crack cocaine on four occasions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Fort Worth, Texas - Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor convicted Nygul Anderson, 19, and Albert Gonzalez, 18, of two additional counts for their role in an extortion and kidnapping scheme that occurred in Fort Worth in October 2017, announced Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter asking Chairman Trey Gowdy to issue a subpoena for documents the White House has been withholding for months in response to the Committee’s bipartisan investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dimas Colon-Cruz, 37, of Erie, Pennsylvania, who was convicted of carjacking and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, was sentenced to 154 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released a draft of the Agriculture Creates Real Employment (ACRE) Act.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks during House Floor consideration of H.R. 5247, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Defendants are latest to plead guilty out of nearly two dozen indicted after long-term narcotics investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) announced a hearing for Tuesday, March 20, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Role in Combating the Opioid Epidemic."
By EPA Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement tonight following the defeat of the House Republicans’ Right-to-Try legislation...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks during House Floor consideration of H.R. 5247, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - A federal jury today found Oliver A. Santana-Garcia (33, Sarasota) guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for June 8, 2018. Santana-Garcia was indicted on Aug. 30, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry led a roundtable discussion on the use of federal prizes and challenges to drive innovation, particularly when it comes to critical water issues. The group discussed ways to tackle some of our nation’s most important water issues through innovation opportunities.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) announced a hearing for Tuesday, March 20, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Role in Combating the Opioid Epidemic."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Joshua Davis, 36, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 37 months in federal prison, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, for accessing child pornography. Davis pleaded guilty to this charge on Dec. 18, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Mid-America Conversion Services (MCS), which assumed operation of two depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUF6) conversion and storage facilities in southern Ohio and western Kentucky in February 2017, earned an award fee of $1,098,247 during its first annual performance evaluation by EM’s Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Damian Quillinan, age 43, of Ballston Spa, New York, was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for receipt and possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 4266, the “Acadia National Park Boundary Clarification Act." Introduced by Rep. Bruce Poliquin (R-ME), the bipartisan bill addresses long-standing land and resource management conflicts associated with Acadia National Park in Maine.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI) and the Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a joint subcommittee hearing for Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Fiscal Year 2019 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Budget."
