News from February 2020
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee member Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) earlier this week introduced the Reinforcing and Evaluating Service Integrity, Local Infrastructure, and Emergency Notification for Today’s Networks Act (H.R. 5926), or the RESILIENT Networks Act, a bill to improve network resiliency in times of emergency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Tirso Garcia-Valdez, 27, of Mexico, Misael Garcia-Carranza, 23, of Mexico, and Brenda Carmona-Venegas, 37, of Los Angeles, were indicted Thursday for conspiring and possessing with intent to distribute approximately 20,000 counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl and approximately 20 pounds of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 Rayburn House...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Rep. Judy Chu, the Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), sent letters to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking information related to news reports that these institutions are targeting Chinese-American scientists as potential spies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) pleaded guilty today to charges related to his disclosure of classified national defense information (NDI) to two journalists in 2018 and 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two men were sentenced to prison for federal gun crimes, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Four BLM firefighters recently returned from assisting with the fire suppression efforts in Australia. Brian Holmes, Eric Tilden and Joe Miller returned February 5 and Justin Cutler returned February 10. The BLM has also sent two more firefighters over to Australia and plans to send three more in the coming weeks bringing the total amount of firefighters sent to assist to 11.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 10:30 am in room...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) announced today that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, Feb. 27, at 10:30 am in room...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Knoxville, Tenn. - On Feb. 19, 2020, following a two-day trial, Terry Lee Gilbreath, 57, of Madisonville, Tennessee, was convicted by a jury on two counts of production of child pornography in the United States District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley has a clear position on this Congress’s priority list.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement in response to revelations that the Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire has been removed after he presented Congress with evidence of Russian meddling in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election in support of President Trump...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: U.S. retail trade sales increased for the entire retail trade sector (NAICS 44-45 ) by 4.3% from $5,053.2 billion in 2017 to $5,269.5 billion in 2018, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2018 Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Fitchburg man was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with participating in a fentanyl and crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation, as directed by the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, Public Law No: 114-322 (WIIN Act), announces negotiation sessions with CVP Delta Division contractors for the conversion of water service and existing repayment contracts for prepayment of construction costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Superior Court of the District of Columbia Judge Ronna L. Beck granted on Tuesday a motion filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General to join their separate prosecutions of defendant James G. Walker, 61, the...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee member Rep. Jerry McNerney (D-CA) earlier this week introduced the Reinforcing and Evaluating Service Integrity, Local Infrastructure, and Emergency Notification for Today’s Networks Act (H.R. 5926), or the RESILIENT Networks Act, a bill to improve network resiliency in times of emergency.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on President Trump’s selection of Richard Grenell as Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI)...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: GLEN JEAN, WV- Superintendent Lizzie Watts has named Eve West as the new Chief of Interpretation at New River Gorge National River, Gauley River National Area, and Bluestone National Scenic River. She began her new assignment Feb. 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2020
News Release: After a five-day trial, a federal jury in Salt Lake City, Utah, found defendant Alan Covington guilty on three hate crime charges stemming from an incident in which the defendant attacked three men with a metal pole because he believed the men were Mexican.
