News from February 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, woman convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter and Criminal Contempt was sentenced on February 4, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on the death of former Congressman John Dingell, Jr., who passed away tonight
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Defendant traveled from Illinois to California and brought back methamphetamine for sale.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement following the death of former Energy and Commerce Chairman John Dingell...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Boston Special Agent Michael Morizio was the featured presenter at a well-attended Feb. 5, anti-human trafficking professionals networking and education event hosted by the western Massachusetts...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the so-called “Green New Deal" resolution.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: The fact is, since its creation the internet has been the single most important driver of economic growth, job creation, and a better quality of life for all Americans. And I’d like to point out that the internet is working today, quite well in fact, despite hyperbolic warnings to the contrary.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
Release: PITTSBURGH - Transportation Security Administration officers across Pennsylvania stopped 75 handguns at checkpoints in 2018, a slight decrease from the 80 that were caught in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Pittsburgh-area gang member has been sentenced in federal court to two years of imprisonment on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
Release: NEW YORK - Transportation Security Administration officers stopped 20 guns in the New York City region’s airports in 2018, the vast majority of which were detected at Newark Liberty International Airport, which recorded 14 gun catches. Overall it marked a slight increase from the 19 caught in 2017 and mirrored the national trend of an uptick in the number of firearms travelers have been bringing to airports over the past several years.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. The selected projects are part of ARPA-E’s Building Reliable Electronics to Achieve Kilovolt Effective Ratings Safely (BREAKERS ) program, as well as the latest OPEN+ cohort, Kilovolt Devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Although we are only a little more than a month into 2019, statistics from the Officer Down Memorial Page indicate that across the nation 15 police officers have already been killed in the line of duty. One officer death is too many. Fifteen is an outrage!.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on the importance of diversity and inclusion in the technology...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), joined with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) to reintroduce S. 383, the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies (USE IT) Act. The legislation is cosponsored ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: The fact is, since its creation the internet has been the single most important driver of economic growth, job creation, and a better quality of life for all Americans. And I’d like to point out that the internet is working today, quite well in fact, despite hyperbolic warnings to the contrary.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Old Bridge, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for his role in a large scheme to defraud the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s health benefits plan of more than $2.8 million for the billing of medically unnecessary compounded prescriptions, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) remarks as prepared for delivery for today’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Examining the Failures of the Trump Administration’s Inhumane Family Separation Policy" are below...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: The Defendants Imported Large Quantities of Synthetic Cannabinoids from China and Supplied Retail Dealers throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hewlett, New York, man and a Haledon, New Jersey, woman appeared in federal court today on fraud charges for allegedly extorting customers of their moving company, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2019
News Release: Since 2014, this Committee has conducted rigorous oversight of issues related to Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) and the system put into place to care for UACs by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of Refugee and Resettlement (ORR). 2014 is when the first major influx of UAC...
