News from January 2019
By State Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) today was elected chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the 116 th Congress. Notably, Risch is the third Idahoan to serve as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, following William Borah’s tenure from 1925-1933 and Frank Church’s two year term from 1979-1980.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - EM’s legacy cleanup contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) earned approximately 83 percent of the fee available during its five-month performance evaluation period in fiscal 2018, according to a recently released scorecard.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Desmon Johnson and Kevin E. Burley, Jr., both of Parkville, Maryland, were indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Clarksburg on January 8, 2019 on firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James G. Moore, Jr., of Fairmont, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Clarksburg on January 8, 2019 on drug distribution and firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Melinda Sharon Higgins, of Elkins, West Virginia, has admitted to drug distribution, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chairman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today praised a coalition of House Democrats on their newly introduced suite of bills to protect America’s coastal communities from offshore drilling. The bills are being introduced on the same day that similar state-level legislative announcements took place at 1:00 p.m. Eastern time by the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: Dear Secretary Mnuchin: . We write in response to a December 19th notification to Congress indicating that the Treasury Department intends to terminate sanctions on Rusal, EN+ and EuroSibEnergo, as part of a deal with Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch who has abetted the Putin Regime’s malign activity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: Today Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Chairman Mike Thompson (CA-05), Congressman Pete King (NY-02), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), House Judiciary Subcommittee Chairwoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18), Congressman Brian Mast (FL-18), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: U.S. Marshals Arrest Child Pornographer and Registered Sex Offender Jason Matthew Zeller in Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Severiano Martinez-Rojas has been sentenced for his role in the sex trafficking of three victims. The defendant is the fourth member of an Atlanta-based Mexican sex trafficking ring convicted for their roles in compelling young women from Mexico and Central America to engage in commercial sex.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Five men from Mexico, Peru, and Honduras were indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Clarksburg on January 8, 2019, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Cameron Dixon, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Clarksburg on January 8, 2019 on firearms charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Richard Dale Ingram Jr., age 31, of Fayetteville, was sentenced yesterday to 110 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $3,900.00...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - EM’s Nevada Program recently awarded environmental characterization and remediation contractor Navarro Research and Engineering more than $942,000, or 94 percent, of the available fee for a performance evaluation period from October 2017 through September 2018.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Workers have cleaned up legacy materials in the C-400 Cleaning Building at EM’s Paducah Site so they no longer pose a potential threat to the public and environment, a key milestone in the project’s deactivation and remediation stages.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - When it comes to leadership roles in DOE projects, Harold Conner is something of a legend. Over the span of 50 years, his talent, knowledge, and expertise have led to a diverse career across the DOE complex.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM crews recently demolished two of seven facilities that supported past vitrification operations at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: NEWS RELEASE SUMMARY - January 8, 2019.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: With the 116th Congress officially underway, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) today announced key senior Republican staff appointments for the Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate Democratic health leaders sent a letter to the Trump Administration today renewing their requests for information on the Administration’s Final Rule expanding the availability of junk Short-Term, Limited-Duration Insurance (STLDI) plans, which jeopardize Americans’ ability to get quality, affordable health care.
