News from April 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement regarding President Obama’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA - Lewis Jackson Sr., 58, a resident of Brunswick, Georgia, was sentenced last week by Chief United States District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 6 months in prison for unlawfully acquiring loggerhead sea turtle eggs, in violation of the Lacey Act. Among other things, the Lacey Act makes it unlawful for any person to acquire, receive, and transport loggerhead sea turtle eggs, as loggerheads are endangered species under federal law.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today began its work reviewing H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval Act, to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) authored the bipartisan legislation which would eliminate the need...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of an ongoing effort to address mental illness following the Newtown tragedy, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today requested OMB provide a list of all federal mental health research, prevention, and treatment programs, including the total amount of federal funds each of these programs receives.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today began its work reviewing H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval Act, to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) authored the bipartisan legislation which would eliminate the need...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of an ongoing effort to address mental illness following the Newtown tragedy, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today requested OMB provide a list of all federal mental health research, prevention, and treatment programs, including the total amount of federal funds each of these programs receives.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - The following is the statement of Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) on the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE - Kenneth L. Barber, 62, of Tallahassee, Florida, was convicted by a federal jury in Tallahassee today of wire fraud, preparing false tax returns, making a false statement to a bank, and conspiracy to commit tax fraud. The verdict was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today began its work reviewing H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval Act, to allow construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE) authored the bipartisan legislation which would eliminate the need...
By State Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, issued the following joint statement in response to the proposed food aid reforms included in President Obama’s FY 2014 budget...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s rigorous oversight of the new health care law, committee leaders are seeking information on the delays and missed deadlines that have plagued the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s implementation. In a letter to Gary Cohen, Deputy...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced that Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX) has moved to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) to the Subcommittee on Health.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to an agreement reached by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Susan Collins (R-ME) with the National Rifle Association (NRA) on a modified version of legislation in the Senate to combat gun trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EARL SETH DAVID was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison for running an immigration fraud mill through his Manhattan-based law practice. As part of the scheme, DAVID and his co-conspirators...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2013 - Tomorrow, the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation will hold a legislative hearing on the. This bill would renew the federal government’s commitment to manage forest resources for the benefit of rural schools and counties by requiring active forest management.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held its third installment of the hearing series on Our Nation of Builders, this time engaging in a review of auto manufacturing in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH- United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, sentenced HARVEY BRYANT PRIDGEN, 58, of Nashville, North Carolina, to six months imprisonment followed by one year supervised release that includes six months...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: In a letter to Office of Management and Budget Acting Director Jeffrey Zients, Dr. Coburns calls on the Administration to adhere and acknowledge the Government Accountability Office's recommendations put forth in the non-partisan agency's third installment of annual duplication reports which outlines overlap, fragmentation, and inefficiencies in the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today called the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Budget that was released two months late a “disappointment" that includes almost a trillion dollars in new spending, $1.1 trillion in new tax and revenue increases, and raises the nation’s near $17 trillion debt by more than $8 trillion.
