News from December 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal, Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr., and Education & Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott released the following joint statement...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Accountability and Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission:"
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 3, 2019, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Frank J. Sackatook (age: 38) of Green Bay.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) released the following joint statement today announcing the historic investments in Medicare and the search for new cures that will be included in H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act when it goes to the House floor for a vote next week...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Tavoris Bottley, 34, a former Senior Correctional Officer at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Beaumont, Texas, pleaded guilty in court today to assaulting a federal inmate housed at the facility, announced Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOEL HALL, also known as “Slugz," 30, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote to a Memphis, Tennessee hospital regarding a recent news report outlining its potential failure to live up to its legal obligations as a tax-exempt organization.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) had the following prepared remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Economy-Wide Deep Decarbonization." This is the seventh hearing in the Committee’s climate change series aimed at developing comprehensive legislation to achieve a 100 percent clean economy by 2050...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at a second Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on oversight of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) this year.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., December 5, 2019 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture is opening signup for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) on December 9, 2019. The deadline for agricultural producers to sign up for general CRP is Feb. 28, 2020, while signup for continuous CRP is ongoing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: HOUSTON - A 34-year-old Mexican foreign national who illegally resided in Houston has been ordered to prison for conspiracy and meth smuggling, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. The jury deliberated for less than three hours following a three-day trial before convicting Rogelio Rivera Benito aka Mecanico Sept. 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Perry accepted bribes from inmates in exchange for allowing inmates to escape from prison and smuggle contraband into the prison.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Education and Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) released the following joint statement today announcing the historic investments in Medicare and the search for new cures that will be included in H.R. 3, the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act when it goes to the House floor for a vote next week...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the arrest of PATRICK EDWIN GORYCHKA for distributing child pornography. GORYCHKA was arrested yesterday and presented before U.S. Magistrate Judge Judith McCarthy in White Plains federal court and released on bail.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Justin Boccio, 33, of Deerfield Beach, was sentenced today to more than 11 years in prison and ordered to pay $83k in restitution for his involvement in a torture and kidnapping plot. Boccio previously pled guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Former Chief Operating Officer Has Pled Guilty and Is Cooperating in the Government’s Investigation.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), top Democrat on the EPW Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee, slammed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s final guidance that redefines ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 245,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations. Of the total, 120,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2019/2020 marketing year and 125,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2020/2021 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
Release: Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $3.5 million to X-energy today to further the development of its advanced nuclear reactor. The project will examine ways to reduce construction and maintenance costs of the developer’s Xe-100 reactor design.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the Grape Street Crips gang was sentenced today to life in prison for murder in aid of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute heroin, and other drug crimes, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
