News from April 2013
By State Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced the Export Promotion Reform Act, H.R. 1409, a bill that will create jobs by improving coordination among the federal government’s export promotions programs, strengthening commercial diplomacy, increasing U.S. exports.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today said ConocoPhillips’ decision to postpone exploration in the Chukchi Sea because of federal regulatory uncertainty was disappointing but not unexpected.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Blairsville, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of sexual exploitation of a minor, and distribution and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh was sentenced on April 9, 2013, in federal court for violating federal narcotics trafficking and firearm laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that a federal grand jury in Macon, Georgia has charged Michelle Blankenship of Upson County, Georgia, age 32, and Edna Yvonne Orr Goff of Sumter County, Georgia, age 37, in a multi-count Indictment with Conspiracy...
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 Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 10, 2013 - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 678, the Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act, with a bipartisan vote of 416-7. This legislation, sponsored by Rep. Scott Tipton (CO-03), would create new American jobs and expand production of clean, renewable hydropower by eliminating bureaucratic and regulatory hurdles.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Come celebrate Earth Day at Rocky Mountain National Park. A special Earth Day event will be held Saturday, April 20, at the Fall River Visitor Center from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Earth Day is a way the world can unite around the importance of environmental service and awareness. Drop by the Fall River...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment today charging five men in connection with a series of armed robberies, including an armored car robbery and a carjacking in which a victim was shot.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement in response to reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff have issued a proposed finding related to the restart of the damaged San Onofre nuclear power plant.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) needs to look at evacuation plans after a nuclear plant accident beyond a 10 mile radius.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with every fellow Republican on the Committee, today released five transparency concerns (four of which remain unresolved) they have with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Republican ...
By EPA 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 - 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: MINNEAPOLIS- Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a former Minnesota Amateur Hockey Association, District 2, treasurer was sentenced for evading his personal income taxes in 2010. United States District Court Judge Richard H. Kyle sentenced Steven Brier to eight months in prison on one count of tax evasion. Brier was charged on December 4, 2012, and pleaded guilty on Dec. 17, 2012.
By DOE 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: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, a 52-year-old Eagan man pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to defraud real estate investors. On April 9, 2013, Tonii Carlos Greene pleaded guilty to one count of transactional money laundering. Greene, who was charged on March 20, 2013, in a superseding indictment, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, expressed shock and concern that Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) attacked the nominee for Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gina McCarthy, before she has even had a nomination hearing.
By Commerce 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 Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 will be a "fee free" Family Fun Day at Wright Brothers National Memorial from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. as the National Park Service celebrates Wilbur Wright's 146th birthday. Wilbur Wright was born near Millville, Indiana on April 16, 1867.He and his younger brother Orville were the first to fly on that historic morning of Dec. 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
