News from February 2021
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX), and Rep. Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX) wrote to Texas Governor Greg Abbott today demanding answers for the life-threatening winter weather crisis that has left Texans in the dark without power, heat, food, water, and medicine for multiple successive days.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on President Biden’s nomination of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to serve as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS):
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
Release: More information about Romania is available on the Romania page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Secretary Blinken, welcome. SECRETARY BLINKEN: So good to be with you. QUESTION: You just joined President Biden at the virtual G7 meeting, and, of course, there’s been the Munich Security Conference. What is America’s message to friends, allies, and adversaries?. SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well,...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: SEATTLE - A Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) probe and Customs and Border Protection seizure resulted in the transfer of 51 Greek Hellenistic and early Islamic coins to the University of Washington Libraries in a ceremony hosted on the UW campus, Thursday.
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
Release: Marcene - thank you very much. I’m delighted to be with all of you on such an important day.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: CRESCENT CITY, Calif. - The National Park Service (NPS) has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the G-6-1 Road Removal project. The park proposes to remove one mile of an abandoned, former logging haul road in the Tom McDonald Creek watershed.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on President Biden’s nomination of Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to serve as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS):
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr., announced today that Gregory Lavon McCollum, 46, of Mullins, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing with intent to distribute cocaine and distributing cocaine.
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Secretary Blinken, welcome. SECRETARY BLINKEN: So good to be with you. QUESTION: You just joined President Biden at the virtual G7 meeting, and, of course, there’s been the Munich Security Conference. What is America’s message to friends, allies, and adversaries?. SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well,...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Tuesday, James Seota-Felix, 41, of Sells, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 24 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Seota-Felix previously pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2020 to one count of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Member Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) led a letter with Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) to the Biden Administration asking them to take action to “protect taxpayers and reduce the burdens placed on the states who administer our unemployment programs" as Americans approach the tax filing season.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Georgia man who was traveling cross-country with nearly 75 pounds of methamphetamine in a commercial vehicle made his initial appearance in federal court on Thursday, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Trutanich for the District of Nevada, Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Neill for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and Colonel Anne Carpenter for the Nevada Department of Public Safety (DPS) - Highway Patrol Division (NHP).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber has sentenced William Nobles (61, LaBelle) to five years in federal prison for possession of images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. Nobles was also sentenced to a 20-year term of supervised release and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Tuscaloosa man to federal prison for possession of marijuana and guns used in furtherance of drug dealing, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: On Jan. 21, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau advised that it would reengage with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to confirm that the Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP) data produced from the American Community Survey (ACS) continue to meet its statistical needs. On Feb. 16, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Justin Petty, age 44, of Charleston, South Carolina, was sentenced on Feb. 18, 2021, to 18 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for assaulting another inmate in retaliation for that individual’s past cooperation with law enforcement as a witness or informant.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: Des Moines, IA-On Feb. 19, 2021, Russell Allen McKeehan, Sr., age 60, of Des Moines, appeared before United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger and was sentenced to four years of probation for storage of hazardous waste without a permit. The sentence includes a six-month term of home confinement. McKeehan pleaded guilty to this offense on Oct. 14, 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today renewed his call for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to provide all data on nursing home deaths related to his must admit order and requested transcribed interviews with top officials involved with the deadly mandate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Derek Nicholas Padilla, 30, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, was sentenced on Feb. 17 in federal court to five years and 11 months in prison for possession of stolen firearms.
