News from March 2019
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: In February 2014 Russian forces entered Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and occupied it militarily. In March 2014 Russia announced the peninsula had become part of the Russian Federation following a sham referendum that violated Ukraine’s constitution. The UN General Assembly’s Resolution 68/262 on the “Territorial ...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: The Republic of the Congo (ROC) is a presidential republic in which the constitution, promulgated in 2015, vests most decision-making authority and political power in the president and prime minister. In 2015 the Republic of the Congo adopted a new constitution, that extended previous maximum presidential...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing to examine S. 747, Diesel Emissions Reduction Act of 2019. Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery and submitted into the record...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a constitutional, parliamentary democracy. Prime Minister Hubert Minnis’s Free National Movement won control of the government in May 2017 elections that international observers found free and fair.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Sri Lanka is a constitutional, multiparty democratic republic with a freely elected government. In January 2015 voters elected President Maithripala Sirisena to a five-year term. The parliament shares power with the president. August 2015 parliamentary elections resulted in a coalition government between the two major political parties with Ranil Wickremesinghe as the prime minister. Both elections were free and fair.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a hearing on the nomination of Dr. Heath Tarbert to be Chairman and a Commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 13, 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 “Hearing to Examine S. __, Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) of 2019."
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Honduras is a constitutional, multiparty republic. The country last held national and local elections in November 2017. Voters elected Juan Orlando Hernandez of the National Party as president for a four-year term beginning January 2018. International observers generally recognized the elections as free but disputed the fairness and transparency of the results.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Nigeria is a federal republic composed of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In 2015 citizens elected President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress party to a four-year term in the first successful democratic transfer of power from a sitting president in the country’s history.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Bob Menendez, D-N.J., today led 40 Senate Democrats in an effort to stop the Trump administration from allowing taxpayer-funded discrimination that will deny vulnerable children access to the qualified, welcoming and safe families they deserve.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: France is a multiparty constitutional democracy. Voters directly elect the president of the republic to a five-year term. They elected Emmanuel Macron to that position in May 2017. An electoral college elects members of the bicameral parliament’s upper house (Senate), and voters directly elect members...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: Since 1974 the southern part of Cyprus has been under the control of the government of the Republic of Cyprus. The northern part of Cyprus, administered by Turkish Cypriots, proclaimed itself the “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus" (“TRNC") in 1983. The United States does not recognize the “TRNC," ...
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a constitutional monarchy ruled by King Abdullah II bin Hussein. The constitution concentrates executive and legislative authority in the king. The multiparty parliament consists of the 65-member House of Notables (Majlis al-Ayan) appointed by the king and a 130-member...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Defendant Admits Embezzling $465,172 to Fund a Lavish Lifestyle.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An Allegheny County felon has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
Release: The Principality of Andorra is a constitutional, parliamentary democracy. Two co-princes-the president of France and the Spanish bishop of Urgell-serve with joint authority as heads of state. In 2015 the country held free and fair multiparty elections for the 28 seats in parliament (the General Council of the Valleys), which selects the head of government. Having won a majority in parliament, the Democrats for Andorra re-elected Antoni Marti Petit head of government.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian C. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging ABDURRAHMAN AKHDAR, 26, New Haven, with one count of possession of stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Andarius Cordero Thomas, 25, of Biloxi, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to 64 months in federal prison followed by 3 years supervised release for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm by an unlawful user of...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Last Congress, as chairman of this committee, it was a priority of mine to make sure that patients could get streamlined access to more affordable prescription drugs. Working together in a bipartisan manner, this committee advanced the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act - or FDARA - to the full House by a unanimous vote of 54-0. The bill then went on to pass the House of Representatives by voice vote before being signed into law by President Trump.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2019
News Release: Iraq is a constitutional parliamentary republic. The 2018 parliamentary elections, while imperfect, generally met international standards of free and fair elections and led to the peaceful transition of power from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to Adil Abd al-Mahdi.
