News from May 2018
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 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 Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Examining the Olympic Community’s Ability to Protect Athletes from Sexual Abuse:"
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A former member of the Orchard Park Trailblazers was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for selling crack cocaine in and around Roxbury’s Orchard Gardens Housing Development.

By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing to review H.R. 5385, the Children’s Hospital GME Support Reauthorization Act of 2018, authored by #SubHealth Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) and #SubHealth Chairman Burgess. H.R. 5385 will reauthorize the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program for five years. The authorization for the program expires on Sept. 30, 2018.
By US DOT Newswire | May 23, 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), delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor on the need for the Senate to pass America's Water Infrastructure Act.

By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to smuggle contraband cell phones and other items to inmates at the Jackson County Detention Center.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Reauthorization of the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Program:"

By US DOT Newswire | May 23, 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), and committee members Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), John Boozman (R-AR), Roger Wicker (R-MS), Deb Fischer (R-NE), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Joni Ernst ...

By DOE Newswire | May 23, 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 Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Examining the Olympic Community’s Ability to Protect Athletes from Sexual Abuse:"

By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Have you ever wondered how much work goes into maintaining trails in Denali National Park? Join us in celebrating National Trails Day and working on the trail system near the Riley Creek Day Use Area and the Triple Lakes Trail.

By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Reauthorization of the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Program:"

By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: The completion of the primary elevators modernization at Carlsbad Caverns National Park has been delayed until June 15. Since the end of April, Tutor Perini Corporation and ThyssenKrupp had been working 10-hour days, seven days per week in the attempt to complete the project by May 25. The park continues to provide visitors with elevator service into and out of the cavern using a secondary set of elevators during this modernization project.

By State Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered remarks in the House of Representatives in support of his legislation that would hold accountable those responsible for violence against the Rohingya people and other ethnic minorities...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: BOISE - Bruce Eugene Froman, 41, of Meridian, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to attempted coercion and enticement, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. As part of his plea, Froman also agreed to forfeit the cell phone used in the commission of the charged offense.

By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Each Has a Previous Conviction for Drug Trafficking.

By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - All Democratic Members of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai expressing concerns about his repeated evasive responses to their inquiries and his outright refusal to respond to Democratic members of the Committee.

By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Jeffrey E. Roberts was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempted enticement of a minor and possession of child pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Soldier Creek, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced on May 22, 2018, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.

By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Two Pacific Northwest employees of the Bureau of Land Management and USDA Forest Service recently received Silver Smokey Bear awards for their outstanding regional wildland fire prevention efforts. Lauren Maloney of Portland and Karen Curtiss of Bend received the awards due in part to their leadership in fire prevention leading up to the Aug. 21, 2017, Total Solar Eclipse.

By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: An indictment was unsealed earlier today charging Larry A. Holley, 61, of Grand Blanc and Patricia Enright, a.k.a. Patricia Gray, 57, of Flint, with conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering, United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On May 22, 2018, a federal jury has convicted Dawn Chapelle Cottman, age 45, of Owings Mills, Maryland of fourteen counts of filing false tax returns, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Cottman owned a tax preparation business called 40 AM Tax Service, which she operated from her residence in Owings Mills.