News from December 2019
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today applauded more than $24 million for 16 projects that integrate innovative conservation practices to help farmers combat the climate crisis and create opportunities to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-A Billings man who admitted possessing methamphetamine for distribution and to having a firearm was sentenced today to six years in prison and five years of supervised release, said U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing titled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Solutions for Economy-Wide Deep Decarbonization."
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pressing them to expeditiously release the results of additional tests it conducted after initially finding asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talc-based baby powder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Keith M. Moses, age 31, of Paterson, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 43 months in prison for conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The lead defendant in a network of men charged federally for crimes related to the sexual abuse of two 10-year-old children was sentenced in U.S. District Court today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone Jr., Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal and Education & Labor Committee Chairman Bobby Scott released the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: MIAMI, FL - Willie Dishon Matthew Obadiah, 32, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom to 235 months in prison today for sex trafficking a minor.
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 Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: All cases prosecuted under the Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: TERRE HAUTE - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Leon Perry III, 43, Linton, Indiana, was sentenced today in federal court, by U.S. District Judge James P. Hanlon, to 30 months in federal prison, after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy for officer to permit escape, conspiracy to bribe public officials, officer permitting escape, and public official accepting a bribe.
By Commerce 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 US DOT Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Highways and Transit Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL) and Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Ranking Member Rick Crawford (R-AR) from today’s joint subcommittee hearing entitled, “Where’s My Stuff? Examining the Economic, Environmental, and Societal Impacts of Freight Transportation":
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jaclyn Stahl (619) 546-8456.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - The Department of Justice today announced that it has awarded more than $376,000,000 in grant funding to enhance state, local and tribal law enforcement operations and reinforce public safety efforts in jurisdictions across the United States. $9,780,780 will support public safety activities in and around the Western District of New York. The awards were made by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management Mother Lode Field Office is lifting its seasonal fire restrictions at 9 a.m., Dec. 5, on approximately 230,000-acres of public lands, due to reduced wildland fire potential.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Dear Ms. Tramontano: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Committee on Finance (Committees) are investigating whether certain officials within the Obama administration had actual or apparent conflicts of interest because of Hunter Biden’s role in Rosemont Seneca and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A California man is facing a substantial prison sentence after pleading guilty to illegally possessing explosive materials.
