News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Michael Lough, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months incarceration for his role in a firearms theft and sale scheme, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 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 Markup of H.R. 1644, the Save the Internet Act of 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Andrew J. Galvin (619) 546-9721 and Joseph S. Green (619) 546-6955.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue designated Imperial County, California, as a primary natural disaster area. Producers who suffered losses caused by recent drought, may be eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) emergency loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Ronnie Lee Faulconer, age 54, of McAlester, Oklahoma, entered a guilty plea to Felon In Possession Of Firearm And Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 992(g)(1)...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Democratic leaders today unveiled a sweeping bill that would protect people living with pre-existing conditions, lower health care costs for consumers, and reverse the Trump Administration’s harmful actions to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Protecting Pre-Existing...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
Release: NORFOLK, Va.-A local man was caught by the Transportation Security Administration with a handgun at a Norfolk International Airport checkpoint on Tuesday, March 26, marking the third firearm that TSA officers have caught at the airport’s checkpoints so far this calendar year, all three of which have been caught this month. In 2018, TSA officers stopped 21 guns at the airport’s checkpoints.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight & Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, April 2, at 10:30 am in 2322 of the Rayburn House Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: J-CODE Announces 61 Arrests in its Second Coordinated Law Enforcement Operation Targeting Opioid Trafficking on the Darknet.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Chair of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Department of Education's fiscal year 2020 budget request.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) from today’s hearing entitled, “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Why Investment in our Nation’s Airports Matters":
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A former Massachusetts State Trooper was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with the ongoing investigation of overtime abuse at the Massachusetts State Police (MSP).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: (LEWISTOWN, Mont.) - The melting snow has caused the waters of the Missouri River to rise and the closure of a campground in the Upper Missouri River Breaks area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Pawtucket man previously deported to his native Dominican Republic after being convicted and incarcerated for trafficking significant quantities of heroin and cocaine was sentenced today to 25 months in federal prison for reentering the United States illegally, and using the identity and Social Security number of another person to fraudulently obtain health care and welfare benefits.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: House Democratic leaders today unveiled a sweeping bill that would protect people living with pre-existing conditions, lower health care costs for consumers, and reverse the Trump Administration’s harmful actions to sabotage the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Protecting Pre-Existing Conditions & Making...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA), and Education and Labor Chairman Bobby Scott (D-VA) issued the following joint statement today after the Trump Administration wrote to the Fifth Circuit urging the court to uphold the district court ruling in Texas v. United States striking down the entirety of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) cleanup contractor UCOR and the United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9-288 have partnered for the last three years to cultivate a new generation of environmental cleanup workers by providing free training to east Tennessee high schools.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: Prepared remarks of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO), from today’s House Floor debate, in support of the President’s veto of H.J. Res. 46 (National Emergency Declaration Termination Resolution):
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), released the following statement about Majority Leader Mitch Connell's (R-Ky.) cynical strategy to call for a vote on the Green New Deal resolution, a resolution the Leader does not support, in order to damage the Democratic Party and undermine the climate change movement.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Plutonium-244 is a highly valuable nuclear material used in applications such as nuclear forensics and medical research.
