News from March 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
Release: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's oversight hearing on military privatized housing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS-A Billings man admitted conspiracy charges today after agents investigating methamphetamine trafficking found 32 pounds of meth and $11,380 in cash at his residence, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House passed the bipartisan Broadband Deployment Accuracy and Technological Availability Act (S.1822 ) by unanimous consent, which will improve efforts to collect more accurate internet availability data, boost connectivity, and make sure our limited resources are used to deploy broadband in communities that need it most. It passed out of the Senate in December 2019 and is now one step closer to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: BAR HARBOR, ME - The Islesford Historical Museum is currently undergoing a major rehabilitation which began in November 2019. The rehabilitation will allow for the protection and longevity of a historic building and for the safe exhibition of historical objects. As the upgrades continue, the museum will...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that yesterday, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced MICHAEL WYATT COLLIUS, 23, of Norlina, NC to 72 months’ imprisonment, followed by a five-year term of supervised...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) during today’s hearing titled: “The Airline Passenger Experience: What It Is and What It Could Be."
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement after President Trump announced last night that he intends to nominate Dr. Nancy Beck as Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC):
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing heroin to distribute and illegally possessing 10 firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Haitian national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for sex trafficking four victims out of his residences in Dracut and Malden.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing titled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Advanced Nuclear Technology’s Role in a Decarbonized Future."
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Cody Field Office and Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) partnered in February to improve fish habitat at a local reservoir. Projects like this are an essential component of the BLM’s mission to practice shared conservation stewardship on public land.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Alonzo Darnell Wood, age 39, of Washington, D.C., yesterday to 33 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report stating that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is refusing to share documents and information related to EPA’s enforcement program...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Building a 100 Percent Clean Economy: Advanced Nuclear Technology and Its Role in a Decarbonized Future:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: BILLINGS - U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme and Montana Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation Administrator Bryan Lockerby have been appointed to head the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA) Executive Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald joined Attorney General William P. Barr, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, and Chief Postal Inspector Gary R. Barksdale today in announcing the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history. This year, prosecutors charged more than 400 defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: SENTENCING - SHERMAN LAKEITH ROSS. On Feb. 24, Sherman Lakeith Ross, 45, was sentenced to 11 years and 5 months for possession with the intent to distribute heroin and aiding and abetting. Ross and his coconspirators used cell phones to communicate about their drug enterprise, and these communications...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, last week released the American Energy Innovation Act (AEIA), her broad, bipartisan bill to modernize America’s energy laws. Murkowski intends to file the full text of AEIA as a substitute amendment to S. 2657, which is being debated on the Senate floor this week. The bipartisan energy innovation package has significant benefits for Alaskans.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Committee members Reps. Dave Loebsack (D-IA) and A. Donald McEachin (D-VA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives today passed S. 1822, by unanimous consent...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Reece A. Line, 23, of Pearland, Texas, was charged today by Information with 22 counts of mail fraud, eight counts of wire fraud, and three counts of tax evasion.
