News from March 2019

By DOL Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray, (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor about her opposition to Chad Readler’s nomination to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In her remarks Senator Murray focused on Readler’s...

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: M. President, today the Senate is considering the nomination of another unqualified, far-right judicial nominee, Chad Readler, who is up for a seat on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 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 on “The Economic Benefits of Highway Infrastructure Investment and Accelerated Project Delivery."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces that a federal jury has found Jovan Demetrius Fredericks (39, Ocala) guilty of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, possessing with the intent to distribute controlled substances, and carrying a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking...

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “The Economic Benefits of Highway Infrastructure Investment and Accelerated Project Delivery." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Duane (DAK) Kees, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced today that Jose Wilfredo Morales-Carpio, age 27, of Rogers, Arkansas was sentenced today to 91 months in federal prison without the possibility of parole followed by five years of supervised release for one count of Receiving Child Pornography. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, introduced the Clean Corridors Act of 2019, legislation that would provide grant funding for the installation of electric vehicle charging stations and hydrogen fueling infrastructure along designated corridors across the National Highway System.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - An inmate pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a murder-for-hire scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Menis E. Ketchum II, age 76, of Huntington, a former Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, was sentenced to three years of probation, a $20,000 fine and was ordered to pay restitution to the State of West Virginia by Senior United States District Judge John T.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Lower Consumer Costs and Expand Access:"
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) sent four letters to the heads of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Office of Management ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Strengthening Our Health Care System: Legislation to Lower Consumer Costs and Expand Access:"
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic leaders of the House and Senate today unveiled the Save the Internet Act that will keep the internet open and free. The legislation will reverse the disastrous repeal by Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in late 2017 of critical net neutrality protections.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman announced the addition of eight co-defendants charged by a federal grand jury in connection to the violent robberies of 15 commercial businesses located in North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, and Kentucky; including La Placita market, located in Warren County, Kentucky, where five previous co-defendants were charged in the shooting death of a Bowling Green resident.

By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Wednesday, March 13, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Lowering the Cost of Prescription Drugs: Reducing Barriers to Market Competition."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: DURANGO - Merle Denezpi, age 39, of Shiprock, New Mexico, was found guilty on March 1, 2019, of federal sexual assault charges following a week-long trial before U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn, U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn announced. Denezpi appeared at trial in custody and was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service at the trial’s conclusion.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man and his long-time girlfriend have been found guilty of racketeering conspiracy for collecting and storing extortionate “taxes" for the man’s brother, an imprisoned Mexican Mafia member, and for acting as the brother’s eyes and ears on the street, delivering coded messages to him, including one message that resulted in an individual being marked for death.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On March 4, 2019, Travis Lester Begay, 30, of Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to eight years’ imprisonment. Begay had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Jesus Humberto Barrera Estrada, 20, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by United States District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 60 months in federal prison followed by six years of supervised release. On Jan. 14, 2019, Corey Webster Newkirk, 22, of Tempe, Ariz., was sentenced to 78 months...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2019
News Release: The 2019 BLM Nevada and TravelNevada free calendar is now available for pick up at local BLM offices during regular business hours, Mon-Fri from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., except for the Nevada State Office in Reno, where business hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.