News from July 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its bipartisan review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released the fifth and final white paper in a series that examines a number of issues emerging with the current system. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) are leading this effort to review the law and its implementation and are soliciting input from interested stakeholders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mohamed Taher, 34, of Lackawanna, N.Y., was convicted following a jury trial of operating a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to import marijuana into the United States, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana, false statements and aggravated identity theft. The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 22 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A U.S. Postal Service employee in Kansas City, Kan., is charged with stealing pain pills that were being delivered to patients by mail, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned a seven-count indictment charging Jacob Aniceto Jose Villarreal, 29, of Brownwood, Texas, with various felony child pornography offenses. Specifically, the indictment charges Villarreal with one count of production of child pornography, four counts of...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today doubled down on the administration’s efforts to give corporate interests a one year reprieve from Obamacare’s onerous mandates while leaving millions of Americans vulnerable to suffer the law’s uncertainty and looming rate shock. According to...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: Everglades National Park Superintendent Dan Kimball announced that the opening of the seasonal extension of the Jimmy’s Lake idle-speed area will begin on July 15, 2013. The area is located within the Snake Bight Pole and Troll Zone, a 9,400-acre non-combustion engine use zone in...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its bipartisan review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released the fifth and final white paper in a series that examines a number of issues emerging with the current system. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) are leading this effort to review the law and its implementation and are soliciting input from interested stakeholders.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Laser frequency combs-high-precision tools for measuring different colors of light in an ever-growing range of applications such as advanced atomic clocks, medical diagnostics and astronomy-are not only getting smaller but also much easier to make.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On July 11, 2013, Jordan James Collier, age 24, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced in United States District Court in Council Bluffs on a charge of illegal possession of a machine gun, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Chief United States District Court...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: POINT MARION, PA -James Madison is known as the “Father of the Constitution." Albert Gallatin was opposed to the Constitution as it was written. He was fearful of a Constitution with a strong central government without written guarantees of individual rights, but used the principles written in the Constitution to help create and support the addition of the Bill of Rights that protects individual freedoms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today examined legislative proposals to improve transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Members reviewed discussion drafts of the FCC Process Reform...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today doubled down on the administration’s efforts to give corporate interests a one year reprieve from Obamacare’s onerous mandates while leaving millions of Americans vulnerable to suffer the law’s uncertainty and looming rate shock. According to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Biopharmaceutical company Amgen Inc. today paid the United States more than $15 million to resolve allegations that the Ventura County company provided illegal financial incentives to physicians and physician groups to induce them to prescribe the cancer drug Xgeva.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement regarding today’s House vote on a portion of the Farm Bill - their second attempt to pass legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Mark W. Keller, 51, of Olney, IL, was sentenced on July 10, 2013, to federal prison on methamphetamine related charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy today continued its examination of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) with a focus on “Regulation of New Chemicals, Protection of Confidential Business Information, and Innovation." Today’s hearing built on the subcommittee’s June 13 hearing on TSCA Title I and focused on two key areas of the law: the regulation of new chemicals and the protection of proprietary business information.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today RHONDA BOYD, 28,a formercorrectional officer at the Rivers Correctional Institution, Winton, North Carolina, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan to 20 months imprisonment, to be followed by 2 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A three-count complaint unsealed Thursday morning in federal court in Salt Lake City charges a Provo, Utah, man with violations of federal firearms laws in connection with an FBI criminal investigation that started in November.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today doubled down on the administration’s efforts to give corporate interests a one year reprieve from Obamacare’s onerous mandates while leaving millions of Americans vulnerable to suffer the law’s uncertainty and looming rate shock. According to...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2013
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a historic "walk through time" in Chickamauga Battlefield on September 14 and 15, 2013. Multiple programs will be offered at different locations throughout the park during this 150th anniversary commemoration, but...
