News from February 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Ranking Member Rick Crawford (R-AR) from today’s hearing entitled, “Tracking Toward Zero- Improving Grade Crossing Safety and Addressing Community Concerns":
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “Vaping in America: E-Cigarette Manufacturers’ Impact on Public Health."
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Modernizing the Natural Gas Act to Ensure it Works for Everyone."
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed six bills from the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, including bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Estuary Program, and support restoration efforts in the Chesapeake Bay, the Great Lakes, and the Lake Pontchartrain Basin.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) calling for a hearing on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) new proposal to modernize Medicaid, the Healthy Adult Opportunity, before having the House vote on a rushed resolution of disapproval.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), said the Senate stands ready to pass America's Transportation Infrastructure Act, following President Trump's call to pass the bipartisan legislation during his State of the Union address. Barrasso delivered the following remarks at the state of a committee hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Two Owners of Telemedicine Companies Charged for Roles in $56 Million Conspiracy to Defraud Medicare and Receive Illegal Kickbacks in Exchange for Orders of Orthotic Braces.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Arthur L. Flowers, 35, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Daniel P. Jordan III to fifteen months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Michelle Sutphin with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a 10-count indictment Thursday afternoon charging eight individuals in connection with an alleged fraud scheme to obtain money and assets from an 80-year-old widow who lives in Washington, Utah. The indictment was unsealed Tuesday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced two Sacramento residents each to two years in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Ruben Rodriguez, 43, and Jaime Mayorga, 41, were convicted at a jury trial in April 2019.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) sent a letter to Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) calling for a hearing on Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) new proposal to modernize Medicaid, the Healthy Adult Opportunity, before having the House vote on a rushed resolution of disapproval.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: This morning the Finance Committee meets to consider three nominations: Jason Fichtner is nominated to serve on the Social Security Advisory Board, Sarah Arbes is nominated to serve as HHS Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Kipp Kranbuhl is nominated to serve as Assistant Treasury Secretary for Financial Markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - John Michael Caruso, 28, of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Zachary Salter, 27, of Paradise Valley, Arizona, were both arrested on Jan. 30, 2020, and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Christopher Louis Hooker (25, Orlando) today pleaded guilty to interference with commerce by robbery. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison. Last week, three co-defendants, Carlos Eduardo Hampton, Jr. (22, Tampa), Quintin Eugene Augustus (18, Cocoa), and Jonathan Arthur Floyd (21, of Cocoa), entered guilty pleas in connection with the 2019 robberies of two central Florida Rural King stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth man was sentenced today to 22 years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin; and for distributing heroin, fentanyl, and Acetyl fentanyl.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $125.5 million in new funding to advance solar technology research. Through the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Solar Energy Technologies Office, DOE continues to advance research and development of solar technologies that reduce the cost of solar, increase the competitiveness of American manufacturing and businesses, and improve the reliability of the grid.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
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 “Oversight of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Modernizing the Natural Gas Act to Ensure it Works for Everyone."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2020
News Release: A 12-count indictment was filed this afternoon in federal court in Brooklyn charging Orlando Lopez with travelling across a state line with intent to commit aggravated sexual abuse of a child, sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography.
