News from July 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Despite warnings to the contrary, many people continue to operate portable generators indoors or close to open windows, doors, or vents, resulting in more than 500 deaths since 2005. And each year, more than 20,000 people visit the emergency room and more than 4,000 are hospitalized due to exposure to toxic levels of carbon monoxide (CO), a colorless, odorless gas. Fatality is highest among people 65 and older.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Chester (PA) District Attorney Tom Hogan announced arrests in Operation Tubería (translation, Operation Broken Pipeline). The joint federal and local operation was designed to attack the drug pipeline from Mexico that runs through Southern Chester County, resulting in multiple arrests for dealing cocaine. The final defendant was arrested last week, completing a year-long investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, two St. Paul men were indicted for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. On July 9, 2013, Jorge De Jesus Gonzalez-Becerra, age 33, and Terry Lee Banks, Jr., age 37, were charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. In addition...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are responding to the Obama administration’s continued delays to Obamacare implementation and raising important questions about the law’s workability. Over the July 4 holiday, the administration announced a one-year delay to the employer...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican committee leaders asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to analyze the budgetary effects of delaying Obamacare’s employer mandate and reporting requirements.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved a group of important jobs and energy bills.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: The Energy and Power Subcommittee today approved an important piece of legislation designed to protect Americans from expensive new EPA regulations that threaten to drive up energy costs for consumers and families and destroy jobs. Rep. Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) commonsense Energy Consumers Relief Act, H.R.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved a group of important jobs and energy bills.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Senate Agriculture Committee Hearing Examines Smithfield Acquisition by Chinese Firm, CEO Larry Pope Testifies
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after Senate Democrats once again blocked action on a long-term, market-based student loan interest rate solution...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today was joined by fellow EPW Republicans in sending a letter to Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) asking her to reconsider her decision to exclude government witnesses in the upcoming hearing "Climate Change: It's Happening Now."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are responding to the Obama administration’s continued delays to Obamacare implementation and raising important questions about the law’s workability. Over the July 4 holiday, the administration announced a one-year delay to the employer...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved a group of important jobs and energy bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Walter Keitric Freeman, 24, of Houston, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction in the robbery and attempted robbery of two armored cars operating in and around Houston, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Freeman entered a plea of guilty Friday, April 12, 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Republican committee leaders asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to analyze the budgetary effects of delaying ObamaCare’s employer mandate and reporting requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Duncan MacDonald III, 50, of Dallas, appeared yesterday in federal court and pleaded guilty to a felony Information charging conspiracy to commit wire fraud. In a related case, last week, Gloria Ann Solomon, 71, also of Dallas, pleaded guilty to an Information charging the same offense. Each...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Today, a new White House report was released finding that comprehensive immigration reform would create jobs, boost productivity and economic growth, raise worker’s wages, and strengthen Social Security. Following the release of the report, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota man convicted of Escape was sentenced on July 8, 2013 by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Dear Secretaries Lew and Sebelius: We write to express concern regarding the impact of user fees in federal, partnership, and state-based exchanges on the federal budget and more specifically on the cost of the advance premium tax credits (APTC) established under the health law. Section 1311 of the...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican committee leaders asked the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to analyze the budgetary effects of delaying Obamacare’s employer mandate and reporting requirements.
