News from May 2011
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: LAS VEGAS - The National Park Service has temporarily suspended the search for a Las Vegas man who went missing Tuesday evening in Lake Mead. Park rangers plan on resuming the search tomorrow morning at 6 a.m.
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON)-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement on tonight’s House vote on the question of raising the debt ceiling...
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rep. Norm Dicks made the following comments after release of the FY2012 Defense bill text.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that today United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii sentenced John Wayne Wyatt, 31, of Bakersfield, to two and a half years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute marijuana. Wyatt pleaded guilty on Nov. 29, 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: BEAUMONT, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge, Thomas E. Hinojosa and U. S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that two Houston women involved in a major drug conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas have been sentenced to federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Ron Clark.
By DOL Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: On Wednesday, June 1 at 12:00 p.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing entitled “Education Reforms: Exploring the Vital Role of Charter Schools." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: As the sun rose on the far side of the International Dateline, War in the Pacific National Historical Park on Guam held the honor of being the first park to commemorate Memorial Day. Members of the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 133rd Detachment, the Air Force's 734th Air Mobility Squadron, and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that Fabio Cazares-Zamora, 37, of Modesto, and Abundio Hernandez, 45, of Oakland, were sentenced today by United States District Judge Oliver W. Wanger...
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor regarding Republicans bringing up a bill to raise the debt limit for the sole purpose of voting it down...
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: LAS VEGAS - National Park Service rangers are searching for a missing boater described as a Hispanic male, mid to late thirties from Las Vegas. He has been missing since about 8 p.m. and was last seen in the water without a life jacket just outside Callville Bay.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: Janeen Mason writes and illustrates award-winning children’s picture books, including Ocean Commotion: Life on the Reef and Ocean Commotion: Sea Turtles! Original art from her many books forms the core of a new exhibit in Biscayne National Park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery. Drawn to the Sea...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: ALBANY, NY. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement Administration John P. Gilbride and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced the unsealing of two Indictments returned by a federal grand jury for the Northern District of New York in Albany, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Thompsonville man plead guilty on May 31, 2011, in United States District Court at Benton, Illinois, to a one count indictment charging him with Conspiracy to Manufacture a Controlled (Methamphetamine).
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rep. Norm Dicks made the following comments after release of the FY2012 Defense bill text.
By DOL Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s visit to Minnesota...
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: Dear Acting Comptroller Walsh, Chairman Bernanke, Acting Director Bowman, and Chairman Bair...
By EPA Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) held a hearing today to discuss draft legislation needed to ensure our nation’s vital electric infrastructure is not vulnerable to cyber attacks and other threats.
By USDA Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: Laboratory hamsters that were fed rations spiked with blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing leftovers had better cholesterol health than hamsters whose rations weren't enhanced with blueberries. That's according to a study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist Wallace H. Yokoyama.
By DOE Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) held a hearing today to discuss draft legislation needed to ensure our nation’s vital electric infrastructure is not vulnerable to cyber attacks and other threats.
By DOE Newswire | May 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter urging the Federal Communications Commission to remove the Fairness Doctrine rules from the Code of Federal Regulations. The Fairness Doctrine has been deemed unconstitutional by the FCC itself, and has long been viewed as a threat to free speech.
