News from February 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on the Environment & Climate Change hearing on “Time for Action: Addressing the Environmental and Economic Effects of Climate Change:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisory officer has been arrested on federal charges alleging that he engaged in the business of unlawfully selling firearms without a license and sold an illegal short-barreled rifle to an undercover investigator.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 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), delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor on the introduction of the Fairness for Every Driver Act.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) announced their intent to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) entitled “Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute: Cybersecurity in Energy Efficient Manufacturing."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A suspended nurse practitioner has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of dispensing and distributing controlled substances and conspiring to distribute and dispense controlled substances, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Woburn man was indicted today in federal court in Boston for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On February 6, 2019, Jessica James, 30, of Morristown, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 15 years in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 10:30 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Reverse ACA Sabotage and Ensure Pre-Existing Conditions Protections."
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: On the opening day of the 116th Congress, House Republicans brought a powerful, but simple measure to the floor that called on this body to legislate on what we all agree needs to be done - locking in protections for patients with pre-existing conditions. Unfortunately, House Democrats voted it down.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Grand Teton National Park and Wyoming Game and Fish are jointly responding to a situation of wild bison that have gored multiple horses on private land within the park. Wyoming Game and Fish personnel have been working with the landowner and have made multiple attempts to haze the bison away. However, the situation continues and includes approximately 100 bison.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is reopening the comment period on our proposal to stabilize a historic stone wall and raise parts of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O Canal) towpath, move it farther from the Potomac River and resurface it. The affected area is between McMahon’s Mill (milepost 88.1) and Lock 42 (milepost 89.0) in Washington County.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush (D-IL) released the following statement today on the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed rules to rollback lightbulb efficiency standards and to revise the Process Rule, which guides energy efficiency standard setting...
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, today delivered the following opening remarks at a full committee markup of H.J.Res 37, a war powers resolution on American involvement in Yemen...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the National Park Service announced $48.5 million in supplemental assistance grants to help historic resources recover in areas impacted by hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria in 2017. Communities in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas, and the U.S. Virgin Islands will receive assistance for historic preservation projects related to hurricane recovery efforts.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on the Environment & Climate Change hearing on “Time for Action: Addressing the Environmental and Economic Effects of Climate Change:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - The owner and operator of SKS Associates, Inc. (SKS) has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to unlawfully distribute controlled substances, using or maintaining a drug involved premises, conspiracy to commit health care fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA -Dennis D. Chapman, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced today to 30 months incarceration for distributing cocaine near an Ohio County playground, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., day care operator was sentenced in federal court today for a scheme to take the infant daughter of a client to Arkansas to be adopted by another couple.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Two Topeka men were indicted today on federal carjacking charges, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for the sexual exploitation of several children.
