News from November 2018
By DOE Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways & Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), and Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that 2.4 million Americans have selected health insurance plans through state and federal marketplaces, a drop from this point in 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 49-year-old Carrollton, Texas man has been indicted for child exploitation charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: CORTEZ, Colo. - On Dec. 4 and 6, the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument (CANM) will host two public meetings to discuss a proposed fee increase for the monument’s visitor center and museum. Fees have not increased since 1988 and the proposal raises fees from $3 to $5, and will be collected year-round.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the nomination hearing to consider three U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) nominees: Mindy Brashears to be Under Secretary ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Accidently Shot Someone While Under the Influence of Drugs.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Washington - On Aug. 01, 2018, Ashley Noland, doing business as Flying N Cattle Exchange, Amarillo, Texas., waived its right to a hearing, entered into a stipulation agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and paid a penalty of $3,500 for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor today to highlight the findings of the Fourth National Climate Assessment, a report by 13 federal agencies laying out the troubling impacts of climate change on ...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Addressing America's Surface Transportation Infrastructure Needs." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former New Jersey lawyer today admitted his role in a money laundering scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By State Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that 2.4 million Americans have selected health insurance plans through state and federal marketplaces, a drop from this point in 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Brandon J. Fremin announced that U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles sentenced THANH TRAN, age 41, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 40 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and an additional 24 months for a 2008 conviction for conspiracy to distribute MDMA from which he was on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: A man who previously operated a freight business and created fake documents for his bank was sentenced today to more than two years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Miles Bailey, age 53, of Queens, New York, and formerly of Albany, pled guilty today to conspiring to commit theft of public money, theft of public money, and aggravated identity theft. Bailey was set to stand trial beginning today in Syracuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former physician pleaded guilty today to operating a pill mill that illegally distributed over 600,000 oxycodone pills out of a pain management clinic in Woodbridge.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: Roosevelt, AZ - Tonto National Monument will waive its entrance fee on five days in 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 28, 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 at a hearing titled, “Addressing America's Surface Transportation Infrastructure Needs."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - The former captain of a New Bedford fishing boat owned by Carlos Rafael, a/k/a “The Codfather," was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for interfering with a U.S Coast Guard (USCG) inspection of a fishing boat off the Massachusetts coast.
By State Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today invited Nashville singer-songwriter Natalie Grant to testify at a hearing on progress in the global fight to end modern slavery. Grant offered compelling testimony about what caused her to get involved in the anti-slavery movement and co-found Hope for Justice, a nonprofit devoted to ending modern slavery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Clairton, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to seven years and 10 months in prison, followed by six years’ supervised release, on his conviction of conspiring to distribute narcotics, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
