News from January 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, Ways & Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) delivered remarks on the House floor in support of 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.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, and Ed Markey (D-MA), released...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A one-count indictment was unsealed in federal court today charging Kermit Tyler Poulson, 39, with transmitting threatening communications with the intent to extort Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Ambushed and Killed a Long Island Man Mistakenly Suspected of Betrayal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Kelvin Roy Thompson a/k/a “HOT" a/k/a “OLD SCHOOL," 60, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to distribution of actual methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst, Director John Dowdy with the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Derryle Smith with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Special Agent in Charge Dana Nichols with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives.
By State Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We observed with great interest your recent visit to Brazil for the inauguration of President Jair Bolsonaro, who, in his first days in office, has taken a series of actions that target marginalized groups, particularly LGBT, indigenous, and Afro-Brazilian populations. It’s become...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: The House today approved legislation to reopen the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service and remove any doubt that hardworking American families will receive their tax refunds on schedule.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement in response to a letter signed by more than 60 House Democrats asking the Democratic leadership to make addressing the opioid crisis a top priority for the 116th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: PLEA - Isaiah Alexander Allen. On Jan. 2, 22-year-old Isaiah Alexander Allen pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, after law enforcement caught him posting so-called “revenge porn." Allen met his victim, a California college student, on an internet gaming website. Over the course of their online relationship...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Arrest Made in Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo Homicide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: Violent Gang Member Arrested. ATLANTA-The FBI and the Safe Streets Gang Task Force want to thank the news media and the Outdoor Advertising Association of Georgia for helping us arrest Antariouse “Phat" Caldwell. Caldwell was arrested this morning, January 9, 2019, at a motel in Jonesboro following...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Hadley, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges related to two bank robberies that occurred in the Southside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) introduced his first bill of the 116th Congress, the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act, legislation to address the nation’s worsening multiemployer pension crisis. Currently, there are about 1,400 multiemployer plans...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: Boulder City, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation today released a Finding of No Significant Impact and Final Environmental Assessment for the Arizona Heritage Trail System within Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: FBI Seeking Information About a Hobbs Act Robbery and Carjacking.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: I rise in support of H.R. 264. This bill appropriates desperately needed funds for Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways & Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) and Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) urging an increase in transparency and reform at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: ATHENS - An illegal aggravated felon was sentenced to 24 months today for re-entering the United States after being deported in 2014, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Dionicio Garcia Aguirre, of Mexico, was sentenced in Athens, Georgia federal court by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal. Mr. Aguirre will be deported for a second time following this latest term of imprisonment.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after President Trump formally nominated Andrew Wheeler to be Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today it is accepting proposals for the tenth year of the DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program to support the research of outstanding scientists early in their careers. Support will begin in 2019 for over 50 early career researchers for five years at U.S. academic institutions and DOE national laboratories.
