News from December 2020
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: (MISSOULA, Mont.) - The road ahead for those traveling a popular byway along the Blackfoot River should be a little smoother in the future, thanks to the Bureau of Land Management Missoula Field Office’s approval of a proposed $5-million Federal Lands Transportation Project to improve 5.7 miles of Johnsrud-McNamara Road.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: RAVEN Receives National Outstanding Partnership/Task Force Award.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Washington - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) issued the following statement after Senate passage of the legislative package including COVID-19 relief and economic stimulus, tax and health care policy extensions and government funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Paterson, New Jersey, men were sentenced today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Behind the scenes at your doctor’s office, there’s a complicated set of information that your providers have to absorb before telling you which vaccinations to get and when. A software tool created at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping them make better decisions.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed an omnibus spending bill consisting of all 12 fiscal year 2021 appropriations bills, coronavirus relief, and authorizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell Coleman is today announcing his appointment of Michelle Buchanan as Legal Assistant to the U.S. Attorney’s Bowling Green Branch Office, the first time such administrative staff have ever been assigned to Bowling Green.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) today released the text of an omnibus spending bill consisting of all 12 fiscal year 2021 appropriations bills, coronavirus relief, and authorizations. The legislation, a product of bipartisan, bicameral negotiations, is expected to be considered in the House today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: GLENNALLEN, Alaska - The BLM is seeking input to prepare an Environmental Assessment for a proposed amendment to the East Alaska Resource Management Plan (RMP) and is extending the public scoping period to Jan. 4, 2021 due to the holidays.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
Release: CASPER, Wyoming - Employees with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) in Wyoming pooled their efforts to make the 2020 holiday season brighter for a local family who had suffered losses and experienced challenges during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Defendant Took Over $30,000 Used In Ruse Undercover Drug Operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Cox announced today his office is aggressively targeting gun crime violators in Jefferson County, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Palmyra man pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of accessing child pornography with intent to view, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE - On December 16-17, 2020, Kejuan Brandon Campbell, 26, Tamarac, Florida, and Dionte Alexander-Wilcox, 24, Miramar, Florida, were arrested for kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap pursuant to a criminal complaint, announced U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tracy Griffin, 38, of Sinclairville, NY, who was convicted of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, acetyl fentanyl, fentanyl, and crack cocaine, was sentenced to time served and two years’ supervised release by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration Stephen Goss asking the Actuary to correct a misleading statement he made to Congress in a recent congressional hearing.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after House Republicans elected Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO), a member of the Ways and Means Committee, to serve as the top Republican on the House Budget Committee for the 117th Congress...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Climate Change and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed its end of year omnibus package, which included landmark legislation to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs):
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: Dear Director Shaw: I am writing for clarification about a potential conflict of interest involving a member of the Department of Justice (DOJ). Prior to his appointment as United States Attorney General, William P. Barr represented Caterpillar Inc. (Caterpillar) in connection with a federal criminal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2020
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Matthew Morgan, 51, of Burlington, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to a charge of bank larceny. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered that Morgan, who is currently serving an unrelated Vermont state sentence, be detained pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
