News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: Good afternoon. I’d like to welcome all of my colleagues-particularly my friend, Ranking Member, Mr. Smith of Nebraska-and the distinguished panel of witnesses who have joined us here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Mark Boring (47, St. Petersburg) to seven years in federal prison for his role in a telemarketing scheme. As part of Boring’s sentence, the court also entered a money judgment of $75,000, the proceeds of the wire fraud conspiracy. In addition, Boring was directed to pay a total of $895,011.03 to victims of the scheme.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: A permanent, legislative solution produced in good faith with our Democratic colleagues is the only way to protect consumers, innovation, and an open internet. I have repeatedly called for an end to this ridiculous, partisan back-and-forth. It’s time for bipartisan legislation that can actually become...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced Pryce Elijah Demars (25, Jacksonville) to 20 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography over the internet. Demars had pleaded guilty on May 25, 2018. As part of his sentence, Demars must also serve a lifetime term of supervised release and register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Jose Rafael Soriano, 28, of Lynn, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for aiding another in an illegal effort to purchase firearms, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for robbing a local credit union, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Legislating to Safeguard the Free and Open Internet:"
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “The Fiscal Year 2020 HHS Budget:"
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PPPO) updated an audience at the 2019 Waste Management Symposia on progress being made on cleanup at the Ohio and Kentucky gaseous diffusion plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was sentenced in federal court to 48 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and committee ranking member Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE), released the following statements in response to President Trump signing the bipartisan Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WILD) Act into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: On a bipartisan basis, this committee has led the way in delivering meaningful health care reforms and policies for the American people. Last year we passed into law the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act, the most comprehensive bill to address a single drug crisis in our nation’s history. That...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: A permanent, legislative solution produced in good faith with our Democratic colleagues is the only way to protect consumers, innovation, and an open internet. I have repeatedly called for an end to this ridiculous, partisan back-and-forth. It’s time for bipartisan legislation that can actually become...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Craig William Nitsche, II, was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine and being a felon in possession of ammunition, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Rayfield Roundtree. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Richard Seeborg, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that PATRICK SCHEXNAYDER, age 28, of New Orleans, was sentenced March 7, 2019 for heroin conspiracy and firearm possession charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Utah) sent letters to former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, to invite each former president to appear before the House Committee on Natural Resources. The Antiquities Act allows Presidents...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee and Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) joined with EPW Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) in introducing the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was sentenced in federal court to 48 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - The waste management industry faces a big challenge in becoming “Millennial-friendly," as it grapples with how to attract and keep its next generation of cleanup professionals, according to a panel at the 2019 Waste Management Symposia.
