News from June 2013
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today welcomed the nation’s new Secretary of Energy, Dr. Ernest Moniz, in a hearing focused on the president’s proposed FY2014 budget for the Department of Energy. Members questioned Secretary Moniz over the department’s budget requests and expenditures and discussed a new vision for the nation’s energy future, especially in light of the country’s new era energy abundance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Today, Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Ruben Ornelas, age 33, of Yakima, Washington, was sentenced today after being convicted of distribution of methamphetamine. Chief United States District Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson sentenced Ornelas to a ten-year term of imprisonment to be followed by a five-year term of court supervision following release from Federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders this week sent a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius which seeks transcribed interviews of HHS officials who have given conflicting information to the Committee regarding Obamacare outreach. The letter follows up on request letters sent to the Secretary and testimony given at a recent joint subcommittee hearing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) to gain a better understanding of this complex statute and its impacts on the economy and public heath and safety.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is scheduled to host open house meetings on June 17 and 19 to discuss the draft Resource Management Plan for Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Energy and Power have scheduled a joint hearing for Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “A Competitive Edge for American Manufacturing: Abundant American Energy." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into an with the State of Rhode Island and the City of Providence that will resolve of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for approximately 200 Rhode Islanders with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD).
By State Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the White House announcement that the Assad regime in Syria has used chemical weapons against the opposition...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law S.622, the Animal Drug and Animal Generic Drug User Fee Reauthorization Act of 2013. The legislation would reauthorize the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA) and the Animal Generic Drug User Fee Act (AGDUFA) that expire at the end of Fiscal Year 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A native of Somalia and his son, a native of Kenya, who were fugitives from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have pleaded guilty today and last week, in United States District Court, before Judge John G. Heyburn II, to multiple charges including conspiracy to distribute a controlled...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Energy and Power have scheduled a joint hearing for Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “A Competitive Edge for American Manufacturing: Abundant American Energy." Witnesses to be announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Geisel: As you are aware, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is investigating allegations of undue influence upon State Department internal investigations. I am troubled by reports that senior State Department officials may have prevented the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) from investigating...
By State Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after news that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against its own populace.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that DRAGOS NICOLAE DRAGHICI, 28, a citizen of Romania, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 78 months of imprisonment for participating in an extensive Internet “phishing" scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 33-year-old man from the southeastern Minnesota community of Claremont pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. Michael Steven Schoenfelder specifically pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: RICHARD MCNEAL, age 47, a resident of Randallstown, Maryland, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon to Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods, announced United States Dana J. Boente. MCNEAL is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 19, 2013.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement in response to the explosion that occurred this morning at a chemical plant in Geismar, Louisiana...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), announced the sentencing of defendant Kathryn Abbate, 64, of Hollywood, FL, to 42 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Energy and Power have scheduled a joint hearing for Thursday, June 20, 2013, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “A Competitive Edge for American Manufacturing: Abundant American Energy." Witnesses to be announced.
