News from March 2018
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Greendom Corporation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kyle Marshall Hogue, 29, of El Paso, Texas, was ordered detained pending trial after a U.S. Magistrate Judge sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found probable cause to support a criminal complaint charging him with a cocaine trafficking offense. The charge against Hogue arises out of the seizure of nearly eleven pounds of cocaine at a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in southern New Mexico on Feb. 27, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Donora, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of over 500 grams of cocaine, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) gave the following speech on the House Floor today during consideration of H.R. 4986, the RAY BAUM’s Act, which reauthorized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the first time in 28 years...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) released the following statement after Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma announced several upcoming policy changes to bolster patient control and access to their personal health records.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Nebraska Man Sentenced to Prison for Viewing Child Pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) gave the following speech on the House Floor today during consideration of H.R. 4986, the RAY BAUM’s Act, which reauthorized the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the first time in 28 years...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Today, the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), held a hearing on “Strengthening Welfare to Work with Child Care."
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: On March 9, the RPS Collaborative will host a free webinar on the status of state grid modernization efforts. Two presentations will discuss the range of activity taking place at the state level. Autumn Proudlove, Manager of Policy Research at the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center, will present...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) sent letters yesterday to the Government of the District of Columbia and United Medical Center in Washington, D.C., following...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4986, the Repack Airwaves Yielding Better Access for Users of Modern Services, or RAY BAUM’S Act, by voice vote.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Employees with EM’s liquid-waste contractor recently set a company record by surpassing 7 million hours, or a year and a half, without injury resulting in a missed day of work at the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 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 Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that JOEL ROSQUETTE, a/k/a “Rick," was arrested today for attempting to hire a hitman to murder three intended victims. ROSQUETTE was presented today in Manhattan federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Katharine H. Parker.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) today issued the following statement following a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report showcasing the opioid crisis is intensifying in our communities.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Today, the BLM announced the distribution of $326,000 to ten counties in Montana and three in New Mexico. These payments were made possible through the Bankhead Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937, which allowed the federal government to purchase damage rangelands. The BLM manages these lands for its multiple-use mission under the authority of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934.
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Capitol Hill today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) hosted foreign ministers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia for a discussion on regional security threats including Russia’s troubling actions in the Baltics.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Anthony Wills, age 37, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced yesterday to serve 70 months in prison for his role in marijuana and money laundering conspiracies, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Vadim D. Thomas, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 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 on, “Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: (ORLANDO, Fla.) - Juan Almeida, 59, and Andrew Cassara, 38, both of Boca Raton, were sentenced to six and seven years in federal prison, respectively, for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. They pleaded guilty on November 6, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2018
News Release: TONOPAH, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management, Tonopah Field Office, has prepared an Environmental Assessment for the proposed Custer Amendment to the Plan of Operations for Mineral Ridge Mine, located roughly five miles northwest of Silver Peak in Esmeralda County, Nevada.
