News from February 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
Release: Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), Chair of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Health and Wellness of Employees and State of Damage and Preservation as a Result of the January 6 Insurrection.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Defense Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Future Defense Spending.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Appalachian-Piedmont-Coastal Zone fire management staff plan to burn 428 acres of fields in Cades Cove on Thursday, February 25. Weather permitting, this acreage includes the 90-acre Rowans Branch unit along Sparks Lane and the 338-acre Primitive Baptist Church unit along Hyatt Lane. The Primitive Baptist Church, Primitive Baptist Church road, and Hyatt Lane will be closed during burn operations to all motorists and pedestrians.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Moss Point Mayor Mario King, 33, and his wife, Natasha R. King, 32, of Moss Point, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to the Mayor’s Gala held in 2019, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca, Mississippi State Auditor Shad White, and Special Agent in Charge Michelle A. Sutphin of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing titled: “Building Back Better: Investing in Transportation while Addressing Climate Change, Improving Equity, and Fostering Economic Growth and Innovation." Below is the opening statement of Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Christopher Claypool, 52, of Spokane, Washington, the former general manager of the Jacklin Seed Company, a producer and marketer of grass seed and turfgrass based in Liberty Lake, Washington, has been charged by criminal information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering as part of multiple schemes to defraud Jacklin’s former owner, the J.R. Simplot Company, and its customers.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Subcommittee Leader for Communications and Technology Bob Latta delivered remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing about government censorship and the silencing of political views.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Bryant Richard Smith, age 32, of Coralville, to 225 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Heroin as well as 120 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Missouri, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally possessing methamphetamine and a firearm.
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Putting Human Rights at the Center of.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 12 months and one day of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised released on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute a quantity of fentanyl and heroin, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Subcommittee Leader for Communications and Technology Bob Latta delivered remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing about government censorship and the silencing of political views.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Nicholas Adam Owens, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 72 months of incarceration for a drug charge, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, "Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media:"
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Bomboy, age 61, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on Feb. 23, 2021, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to five years’ imprisonment for his role in a Lackawanna County-based methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, "Fanning the Flames: Disinformation and Extremism in the Media:"
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's Ready or Not: U.S. Public Health Infrastructure Hearing.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, held a hearing entitled, “Building Back Better: Investing in Transportation while Addressing Climate Change, Improving Equity, and Fostering Economic Growth and Innovation." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), as prepared for delivery...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Subcommittee Leader for Communications and Technology Bob Latta delivered remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing about government censorship and the silencing of political views.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar today following up on recent information that calls into question the extent of his role in the formation of the Trump Administration’s inhumane family separation policy.
