News from February 2019
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced the launch of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Versatile Fast Neutron Source, also referred to as the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), one of the foundational projects specified in the Nuclear Energy Innovation Capabilities Act of 2017.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Congressman Collin C. Peterson welcomes the IRS’ decision to provide a waiver for farmers and ranchers on the March 1st filing deadline. Peterson sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig requesting the waiver, which also allows producers to forgo making quarterly estimated tax payments. Peterson released the statement below...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Illegal alien Ernesto Garcia-Flores, 39, of Mexico, pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kathleen Kay to one count of re-entry of a removed alien, U.S. Attorney David C. Joseph announced.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing on “We’ll Always Have Paris: Filling the Leadership Void Caused by Federal Inaction on Climate Change."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tyron Evans, age 42, of Baltimore, Maryland pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to possession with intent to distribute heroin. On Feb. 27, 2019, his co-defendant, Brandon Pride, age 38, also of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry today applauded Senate confirmation of Andrew Wheeler to be the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: The established climbing management areas identified below are closed to all public use from March 1, 2019 to July 15, 2019 to protect peregrine falcon nesting aeries.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon today introduced bipartisan legislation to retroactively extend tax provisions that expired at the end of 2017 and 2018 through the balance of this year and provide disaster tax relief benefits to individuals and businesses affected by major disasters occurring in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Marcus Adside, 30, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and butyryl fentanyl, and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Andrew Wheeler to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) sent a letter to Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) requesting the committee hold hearings on H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2019, so that the committee can consider several provisions of the bill that fall within its jurisdiction.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following statement after the World Trade Organization (WTO) announced it has found China’s price supports for grains, including wheat, are trade distorting and in violation of WTO rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Tyron Evans, age 42, of Baltimore, Maryland pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to possession with intent to distribute heroin. On Feb. 27, 2019, his co-defendant, Brandon Pride, age 38, also of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Former Las Vegas illusionist Jan Rouven Fuechtener was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $500,000 fine for possession, receipt, and distribution of more than 9,000 images and videos of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: FBI Guam: Preparing for Threats Posed by Improvised Explosives and Potentially Dangerous Chemicals.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Andrew Wheeler to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Carl Wayne Bartleson, Jr., 46, of Danville, Kentucky was sentenced today, by Chief U.S. District Judge Karen K. Caldwell, to 324 months in prison following his conviction in October 2018, following a jury trial in federal court. Bartleson was convicted of one count of conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl and four counts of distributing those same drugs. Chief Judge Caldwell imposed a 324-month sentence on each of the five counts, to run concurrently.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer urging the Administration against making changes to existing law through the implementing legislation for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that would flout clear congressional intent on the U.S. de minimis threshold, the value below which goods may be imported free of customs duties and paperwork burdens.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced a Notice of Sale of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2019
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that two inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution at McDowell were sentenced on weapons charges in federal court in Bluefield. These cases were investigated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Senior United States District Judge David A. Faber imposed the sentences.
