News from February 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) are leading ten of their colleagues in calling on the Trump administration to withdraw its rewrite of a bedrock environmental law.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP), in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), is looking for start-ups to develop or adapt a language translator that functions in a maritime operational environment. A new Language Translator solicitation was posted today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2021 budget request for the Department of Transportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Wright City, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for stealing firearms from a Williamsburg, Missouri, store then leading law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase in which a state trooper was injured.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Fiscal Year 2021 EPA Budget."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: MACON, Ga. - Eleven federal search warrants were executed Wednesday morning related to suspected violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) and drug trafficking, resulting in the rescue of 168 canines, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, “Strengthening Communications Networks to Help Americans in Crisis."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Danville, VIRGINIA - In an indictment returned under seal earlier this month and unsealed recently following the defendants’ recent arrests, a federal grand jury sitting in U.S. District Court in Roanoke has charged six Danville-area residents with conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
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 on “Strengthening Communications Networks to Help Americans in Crisis:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A New Jersey resident pleaded guilty in federal court on charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2021 EPA Budget:"
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - “Today marks the sixth anniversary of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and its people. Six years later, we continue in bipartisan fashion to condemn Russia’s illegal occupation and refuse to recognize its claims over sovereign Ukrainian territory. We stand with Kyiv. Crimea is Ukraine.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -This week, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing to commemorate Black History Month by examining lessons from the civil rights movement on combating efforts to suppress the right to vote and how many of these lessons are particularly urgent in the face of similar voter suppression efforts today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Reps. Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) applauded the unanimous passage in the U.S. Senate of the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act (H.R. 4998 ), their bipartisan bill to help secure America’s telecommunications supply chain...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jennifer Flynn, a 29-year veteran of the National Park Service (NPS), will serve as the Associate Director for Visitor and Resource Protection for the agency. She will be located at headquarters in Washington, DC, beginning April 12, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Two top advisers to President Trump on Wednesday discussed with GOP senators the need for Republicans to lower drug prices and act on health care costs ahead of the election, according to people familiar with the meeting.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
Release: More information about Kiribati is available on the Kiribati country page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Wayne Payne, 63 of Niagara Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum penalty of 40 years, and a fine of $5,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Meyersdale, Pa. has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to one day of imprisonment, three years’ supervised release, including one year of home confinement, and restitution in the amount of $251,000 to the Social Security Administration on her conviction of conversion of government funds, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2020
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2020, Joshua Drake Howard, a 36-year-old resident of Dothan, Alabama, was sentenced to 140 months in prison for federal drug and firearms related charges, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr., FBI Special Agent in Charge James Jewell, and Dothan Police Chief Steven Parrish. Following his prison sentence, Howard will be on supervised release for five years.
