News from January 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced the unsealing today of an Indictment charging WILLIAM BAZEMORE, WARREN BRYANT, and MARQUIS JACKSON with racketeering, sex trafficking, and drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Stephen Ray Wilson Jr., age 39, of Rogers, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release and ordered to pay a fine of $3,900.00 on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva today launched a new online tool for Americans to share personal stories of how ongoing government shutdown is impacting their lives. The online platform will enable people across the country to take action and share their experiences of being furloughed, forced to work without pay, turned away from visiting public lands, and how the shutdown has affected them and their communities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: Grassley: Free, fair trade will continue to be priority for Finance Committee.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security has re-released a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report from this summer on President Trump’s completely unnecessary and wasteful border wall.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: House and Senate Democratic health leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting detailed information on the Trump Administration’s spending of user fees generated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace exchanges, including HealthCare.gov.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: House and Senate Democratic health leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting detailed information on the Trump Administration’s spending of user fees generated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace exchanges, including HealthCare.gov.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Fossil Energy announced up to $88 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects enhancing technologies for oil and natural gas recovery under two separate funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will manage the projects selected under both FOAs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: Grassley: Building on the success of tax reform.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced the Committee’s six subcommittees for the 116th Congress. The jurisdictions of the subcommittees are unchanged from the previous Congress, but two of the subcommittees have new names - the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey delivered the following remarks in support of H.R. 265, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. The legislation is a bipartisan bill to reopen federal agencies and ensure Americans receive their SNAP benefits in full and on time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court to six years’ imprisonment with four years of supervised release on his conviction of violations of the federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A federal grand jury today indicted a partner at an Ocean County law firm for evasion of taxes totaling more than $1 million; filing false income tax returns; failing to pay over payroll taxes to the IRS; and making false statements on a bank loan application, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: House and Senate Democratic health leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today requesting detailed information on the Trump Administration’s spending of user fees generated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplace exchanges, including HealthCare.gov.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced the Committee’s six subcommittees for the 116th Congress. The jurisdictions of the subcommittees are unchanged from the previous Congress, but two of the subcommittees have new names - the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper, top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Michael F. Bennet (D-Colo.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), wrote to U.S. Department of the Interior Acting Secretary David Bernhardt urging him to extend the ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the adoption of a Senate resolution ratifying committee leadership today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa released the following statement outlining his committee agenda for the Congress. As he takes the gavel of the Finance Committee for the second time, Grassley’s agenda reflects a desire to build on past successes, protect consumers and patients and improve the quality of life for all Americans.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today announced the Committee’s six subcommittees for the 116th Congress. The jurisdictions of the subcommittees are unchanged from the previous Congress, but two of the subcommittees have new names - the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Tom Udall (D-N.M.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler today to press for details on a sizable ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed a resolution affirming the House Counsel’s authorization to intervene in the Texas v. United States lawsuit to defend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and protections for Americans with pre-existing conditions...
