News from September 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing, “Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing entitled "Legislating to Connect America: Improving the Nation's Broadband Maps:"
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing entitled "Legislating to Connect America: Improving the Nation's Broadband Maps:"
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship Chair Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Department of Homeland Security's to enforce an interim final rule that bars individuals from seeking asylum unless they first sought asylum in a third-country...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that United States Judge District James C. Dever III sentenced GERICK TURNER, 41, of New Hanover County to 120 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change hearing, “Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives participated this week in a multi-agency initiative to apprehend high-risk probation offenders located throughout Vance County.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement that it would soon act to remove flavored vaping products from the market...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced JESSE BERNALE STINES, JR., 27, of Raleigh to 151 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release. On March 18, 2019, STINES pled guilty to one count each of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - United States District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced DUSTIN DINET, age 32, of New Orleans, and STEVEN DINET, age 44, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, who are brothers, for conspiring to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and 100 grams or more of heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, AK - Amidst ice blocks and with a backdrop of the Lamplugh Glacier, representatives from Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and West Norwegian Fjords World Heritage Site signed a sister park agreement on Saturday in Glacier Bay. The agreement acknowledges the similarities between the two protected areas and promotes the sharing of ideas and best practices between site managers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Marshfield, Missouri, woman was sentenced in federal court today for her role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee legislative hearing entitled, “Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks:"
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 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 field hearing on Thursday, Oct. 3, in Chicago, Illinois on the public health threat posed by gun violence. The hearing will be held at Kennedy King College.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: ATLANTA - Dyann E. Ramo has been sentenced to three years on probation with the first year in home confinement after she pleaded guilty to one count theft of government funds related to her stealing her deceased mother's Social Security benefits for nearly 20 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWIN DeJESUS, 48, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 64 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: Point Reyes Station, CA - The public is invited to witness twenty-six candidates from sixteen countries become new American citizens at Point Reyes National Seashore on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, at 11 am. The ceremony will take place in the Bear Valley picnic area. This ceremony is one of over 316 ceremonies that will welcome more than 34,300 new citizens at Constitution Day and Citizenship Day ceremonies across the nation between September 13 and 23.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) asked Aurelia Skipwith, nominee to be director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, about key priorities for Wyoming. Barrasso asked Skipworth about the importance of delisting recovered species such as the gray wolf and the grizzly bear and ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 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 titled “Hearing on the Nominations of Aurelia Skipwith to be Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Katherine Lemos to be Member and Chairperson of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TORREN BOYD, 38, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a loaded semiautomatic rifle.
