News from August 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Related: Chairman Shuster Discusses Infrastructure with Nation’s Governors, Highlights WRRDA
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Last night, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) introduced the bipartisan Postal Reform Act of 2013 (S. 1486).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Ways and Means Committee released bipartisan proposals to strengthen and protect Social Security. This follows several hearings in the Social Security Subcommittee on bipartisan proposals to secure the future of the program. The draft legislative text can be found at www.waysandmeans.house.gov/entitlementreform.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: FBI Seeking Information about Defendant. PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Fayette County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of attempting to induce a minor to engage in sexual activity, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. The one-count indictment, returned...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A pilot and his passenger, who belly landed their Beechcraft plane at the Yoakum County Airport on April 30, 2013, appeared this morning before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge. Pilot Gregory Thomas, 50, of Sacramento, California, and his...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
Release: Washington, DC, Aug. 1, 2013 - An Agriculture Department evaluation released today examines the impact of a new alternative delivery method for providing low income children with access to food during the summer months when school meals are not available. As part of its ongoing commitment to improving...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW JOHNSON, also known as “Andrew Heron," 39, a citizen of Jamaica, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 14 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the United States after he was deported.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., made the following statement after reports of a House Republican agreement on a nutrition bill that would cut $40 billion from food aid programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: A self-employed tax preparer and sports official for local athletic events who prepared and filed fraudulent federal tax returns was sentenced today to over a year in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Aug. 1, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held an oversight hearing on “Transparency and Sound Science Gone Extinct?:The Impacts of the Obama Administration's Closed-Door Settlements on Endangered Species and People." The hearing examined the need for data transparency as it relates to federal decisions on implementing the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C., Aug. 1, 2013 - United States Trade Representative Michael Froman and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that the European Union (EU) will continue to provide U.S. beef producers with significant access, at zero duty, to the EU market for high-quality beef produced from ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder today welcomed the confirmation last night by the U.S. Senate of Stuart F. Delery as the Department of Justice’s Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division. “I am pleased to congratulate Stuart Delery on his confirmation as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Paul S. Kruse, 60, of Jacksonville, Fla., was sentenced late yesterday to serve 30 years in prison for wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, attempting to murder a government witness and murder-for-hire, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III of the Middle District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: Barren County, Ky., Sheriff Christopher Brian Eaton, 42, of Glasgow, Ky., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Joseph H. McKinley Jr. to serve an 18-month prison term followed by two years of supervised release, after a jury convicted him on May 9, 2013, of two counts of obstructing justice during ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the city of St. Peters, Mo. will pay $80,000 and make changes to its zoning laws to settle a lawsuit alleging that the city violated the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it denied a zoning request ...
By Fed Newswire | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: Blencoe State Bank, Blencoe, Iowa Order of assessment of civil money penalty dated July 30, 2013 The Federal Reserve Board also announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: Eastern ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: The Obama administration today launched Business.USA.gov/healthcare , a one-stop-shop Website which will provide employers of all sizes educational materials on how the Affordable Care Act may affect businesses and help them compete. The site includes a wizard tool that is tailored based on size and ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: The Obama administration today launched Business.USA.gov/healthcare , a one-stop-shop Website which will provide employers of all sizes educational materials on how the Affordable Care Act may affect businesses and help them compete. The site includes a wizard tool that is tailored based on size and ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending July 27, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 326,000, a decrease of 19,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 345,000. The 4-week moving average was 341,250, a decrease of 4,500 from the previous week's revised average of 345,750.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration today announced upcoming webcasts to increase awareness and understanding of basic responsibilities associated with operating private sector retirement plans.
