News from May 2013
By State Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Dear Colleague: Last year in Benghazi, we lost four brave Americans at the hands of terrorists. By law, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was required to convene a temporary, investigative panel known as an Accountability Review Board (ARB) to study these deadly attacks, and to make recommendations...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The National Park Service Comprehensive Fisheries Management Plan Environmental Assessment (EA) for waters between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead within Grand Canyon National Park (Grand Canyon) and Glen Canyon National Recreation Area (Glen Canyon) is available for public review and comment. Comments will be accepted from May 9 through June 10, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England; U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz; and Middlesex County District Attorney Marian T. Ryan announced today that fifteen individuals were charged today with conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, Los Compadres, and USAA sponsor "Music Under the Stars" on Friday, May 17, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. on the grounds of Mission San José. This annual concert, now in its 15th year, continues to grow in popularity every year. Mission San José provides a magnificent...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) New England Field Division; United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; and United States Marshal Jamie A. Hainsworth announced that Charlie Rosario, 29, formerly of North Providence, R.I., was sentenced on Wednesday to 96 months in federal prison for conspiracy and trafficking more than 500 grams of cocaine in November 2010.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the April jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 165,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for April decreased to 7.5 percent from 7.6 percent in March.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Ways and Means Members Encourage DOL Not to Stifle Pro-Work Unemployment Insurance Reforms.
By US DOT Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following statement Friday following the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) decision to continue funding contract air traffic control towers at the nation’s airports through Sept. 30, 2013...
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico - Two popular summer youth programs at Carlsbad Caverns National Park are now accepting application; the ParKids one-week day camps for each of the first three weeks in June and Teen Adventure Week at the end of the month.
By Homeland Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released a statement commending the Administration’s new initiative to ensure American researchers, businesses and entrepreneurs have more access to data generated and stored by the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Cosme Adalid Torres-Flores, a/k/a “Cosme Adalid Torres," 22, of Telford, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with one count of illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about April 19, 2013, Torres-Flores, an alien...
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Liborio Markets #8 Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on May 9, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH LADUE, a 26-year-old resident of Browning and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, pled guilty to sexual abuse of a minor. Sentencing has been set for Aug. 14, 2013. He is currently detained.
By USDA Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: When the label on a bottle of olive oil misrepresents what's inside, shoppers may not be getting what they thought they paid for. Mislabeling is also of concern to chefs, retailers, and America's olive growers and olive oil processors-especially those newly entering the domestic olive oil market. They face tough international competition: An estimated 98 percent of all olive oil consumed in the United States is imported.
By State Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, released the following statement on the mounting bipartisan movement in Congress to further strengthen sanctions against the Iranian regime...
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement upon the announcement that Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) will retire at the end of his term in 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - The House Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce Committees today released an updated version of the ObamaCare Burden Tracker (#ObamaCareBurden), which reveals the burden on employers and families has increased to almost 190 million hours. The Burden Tracker,...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - Fifteen individuals were charged today with conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - An investigative panel of the U.S. House of Representatives heard the Government Accountability Office (GAO) testify that Transportation Worker Identification Card Program, TWIC, pilot program to produce a reader for access to our ports continues to flounder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
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