News from May 2018
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed S. 292, the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed S. 292, the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced yesterday that the National Park Service (NPS) is proposing to roll back a commonsense 2015 rule that protects wildlife in national preserves in Alaska from cruel hunting practices. The rule that the Trump administration wants to reverse...
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced that after nearly 30 years with the Finance Committee, Deputy Staff Director and Chief Tax Counsel Mark Prater will be departing the committee staff. Prater joined the Finance Committee in January 1990 and has helped...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Jose Manuel Lara, Jr., 20, of Camp Verde, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 36 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. The original sentence of 45 months was reduced by nine months to reflect credit for time Lara Jr., served in tribal custody for the same offense. Lara, Jr. had previously pleaded guilty to one count of assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Timothy Chenault has been sentenced for failing to register as a sex offender after he moved to Georgia from Oregon. Chenault was convicted in Oregon of attempt to commit rape and sexual abuse.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: A modernized tax code - complete with middle-class tax relief, a competitive corporate tax rate and other much-needed reforms - is energizing the economy. The numbers don’t lie: Jobless claims are at a near 48-year low, the unemployment rate is the lowest since December 2000, and first quarter capital...
By EPA Newswire | May 22, 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 on “DOE Modernization: Legislation Addressing Development, Regulation, and Competitiveness of Advanced Nuclear Energy Technologies:"
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal jury in New Haven today found TONEY KELSEY, also known as “Blaze," 26, of Hartford, guilty of sex trafficking of minors. The trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall began on May 15.
By Homeland Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Blockchain is unquestionably the hottest technology being developed today in the private and government sectors. A recent report published by Research and Market determined the global Blockchain market was valued at $411.5 million in 2017 and will grow to $7.7 billion by 2022-an astonishing annual growth rate of nearly 80 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment against Aurora Cuara, 38, of Lemoore, last Thursday, charging her with theft from an Indian tribal organization, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Zachary Wilson, 28, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 36 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on sexual abuse charges. Wilson also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), held its fourth hearing as part of the committee’s ‘DOE Modernization ’ series. #SubEnergy members reviewed four bills to address development, regulation, and competitiveness of advanced nuclear energy technologies
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a proposed rule that would radically restrict women’s health care providers under the Title X Family Planning Program...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - During the week of May 21, 2018, five defendants in an east Tennessee methamphetamine (meth) conspiracy were sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, Senior, U.S. District Court Judge to serve time in federal prison. James Dwayne Byington, 50, Rogersville, Tennessee, was sentenced ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Taylor Boyd-White, age 27, of Syracuse, was sentenced yesterday to 51 months incarceration, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for charges relating to her role in a years-long credit card cloning operation, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith, Janelle M. Miller...
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House floor during consideration of S. 204, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017...
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C.- To halt the oil and gas drilling exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge currently being rushed by the Trump administration, Vice-Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources Jared Huffman (D-CA), Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Donald McEachin (D-VA), and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) today introduced the Arctic Cultural and Coastal Plain Protection Act.
By EPA Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed S. 204, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2017, by a vote of 250-169. This legislation previously passed the Senate on Aug. 3, 2017, by unanimous consent.
By DOL Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Brandenburg Industrial Service Company have signed a strategic partnership to promote worker safety and health during the demolition of the former Bannister Federal Complex in Kansas City.
