News from December 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and senior Committee Member Peter DeFazio (D-OR) responded to the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) announcement regarding its plans to examine continuing a ban on in-flight cell phone calls on U.S. commercial air service.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to the administration’s latest delays and changes to its health care law. The administration today announced that state-based “high risk pools" will continue through January of 2014, rather than Dec. 31, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - LODGY MICHAEL JACKSON of Houston, TX, was sentenced to 400 months imprisonment for the murder of Jamie Benson, of Houston, TX, on April 22, 2011. In February, Jackson pleaded guilty to three counts: conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine; conspiracy...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane appeared before Congress today alongside NRC Commissioners Kristine Svinicki, George Apostolakis, William Magwood, and William Ostendorff at a joint hearing hosted by House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Environment and...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee markup on.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane appeared before Congress today alongside NRC Commissioners Kristine Svinicki, George Apostolakis, William Magwood, and William Ostendorff at a joint hearing hosted by House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Environment and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: FRANKFORT, KY -Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, Perrye Turner, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and John E. Lucas, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General, jointly announced today that a home builder from Georgetown, KY., was sentenced to 69 months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining more than a million dollars in loans from a Frankfort bank.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) delivered remarks on the floor of the House of Representatives in support of H.J. Res. 59 and the temporary agreement on the Sustainable Growth Rate. The Energy and Commerce Committee passed a permanent repeal and replacement...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to continue America’s leadership in clean energy innovation, the Energy Department today announced an award to NuScale Power LLC to support a new project to design, certify and help commercialize innovative small modular reactors (SMRs) in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES -- Robert A. Rizzo, who for years was the top administrator in the City of Bell and who became a symbol of municipal corruption, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges in a scheme that resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid federal income tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough and Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the DEA’s El Paso Division announced the indictment of 15 men on federal drug trafficking charges. The 15-count superseding indictment was unsealed today following an early morning multi-agency law...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that MICHAEL ANGELO KARRISON, age 48, of Columbia, South Carolina was sentenced yesterday in federal court. Earlier this year, KARRISON plead guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, in violation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return by a grand jury of five indictments charging seven individuals with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud Boat U.S. Those charged include: John J. Kurant, Jr. (46...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred...
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, convened a hearing to examine the future of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan as senior officials from the State Department, Department of Defense and USAID will testify. The hearing is entitled “Afghanistan 2014: Year of Transition.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on December 9, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, JAMIE LYNN STROSKY, a 33-year-old resident of Shepherd, was sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: ANIL PATEL, age 47, formerly a resident of Metairie, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance to thirteen months incarceration, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: On Dec. 3, 2013, Jeffry M. Presutti, Jr., 36, of Pomona, was indicted in a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2013 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today awarded five grants to support research, education and Extension programs that will improve the competitiveness of organic livestock and crop producers.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2013 – U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a public-private partnership to rapidly advance the development of the first U.S. commercial facility producing cellulosic nanomaterial, a wood fiber broken down to the nanoscale. The partnership is between the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) and the U.S. Forest Service.
