News from February 2019
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management today announced leadership appointments at the agency’s headquarters and in its Alaska and Idaho state offices. New Deputy Director for Operations Michael Nedd, Alaska State Director Chad Padgett, and Idaho State Director John Ruhs all bring decades of experience and leadership in public land management that will serve to advance the BLM’s mission and activities in the years ahead.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Howard Randall Thomley, 60, of Hattiesburg, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to a Criminal Information charging him with health care fraud for his role in a $200 million scheme to defraud health care benefit programs, including TRICARE, announced U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement after House passage of H.R. 8, the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee legislative hearing on “Clean Energy Infrastructure and the Workforce to Build It:"
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 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 at a committee “Hearing to Examine S. 383, the Utilizing Significant Emissions with Innovative Technologies Act, and the State of Current Technologies that Reduce, Capture, and Use Carbon Dioxide."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Natchez, Miss. - Today, Mike Hurst, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, along with the Natchez Police Department, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Adams County Sheriff’s Office, the local District Attorney’s Office, and other federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, announced the expansion of an initiative to combat violent crime called "Project EJECT" into Adams County and the City of Natchez.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, March 6, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Lower Consumer Costs and Expand Access."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- On Feb. 25, 2019, Tanya Lee English, (a/k/a Tanya Roberts and Tanya Wilson), 44, of Tuskegee, Alabama, was sentenced to 84 months in federal prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and federal firearms charges, announced U.S. Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., and Postal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The leader of a large-scale timeshare resale scam was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison for defrauding more than 1,000 victims, many of them elderly, out of more than $3.3 million, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced today that Matthew Joshua Green of Clayton County, Georgia was sentenced to 96 months imprisonment for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person before Judge William H. Steele. Green had prior felony convictions...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Daily Meth User Possessed a Rifle That Had Previously Been Reported Stolen.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, March 6, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Lower Consumer Costs and Expand Access."
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (D-Del.), addressed the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' annual Washington Briefing conference about the prospects for major transportation legislation in this Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on “Confronting a Growing Public Health Threat: Measles Outbreaks in the U.S.:"
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the fifth anniversary of Russia’s occupation of Crimea...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: GREAT FALLS-Harlem resident Tristen Jace Gone, who admitted hitting his domestic partner, was sentenced today to three years in federal prison and two years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: The current measles outbreak showcases the problem of under-vaccination.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Tomorrow, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, will lead a trip to Puerto Rico to examine the current status of FEMA’s Hurricane Maria recovery operations. Joining Chairman Thompson on the trip will be Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Rep. Al Green (D-TX), and Rep. Jesús “Chuy" García (D-IL).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management today announced leadership appointments at the agency’s headquarters and in its Alaska and Idaho state offices. New Deputy Director for Operations Michael Nedd, Alaska State Director Chad Padgett, and Idaho State Director John Ruhs all bring decades of experience and leadership in public land management that will serve to advance the BLM’s mission and activities in the years ahead.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee legislative hearing on “Clean Energy Infrastructure and the Workforce to Build It:"
