News from May 2013
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday sent a letter to public health officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to examine how each state regulates and monitors abortion clinics and protects the health and safety of women. The trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell...

By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today pushed Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to fully comply with the panel’s investigation into the potentially illegal use and waste of taxpayer dollars through the Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) and Community...

By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: LA GARITA, Colo - The Rio Grande National Forest’s Saguache Ranger District and Bureau of Land Management’s San Luis Valley Field Office will hold a public meeting concerning the La Garita Hills Forest Restoration environmental analysis at the Saguache Public Lands Office on May 23 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. The public lands office is located at 46525 Hwy 114, Saguache. The open house meeting will also include a short presentation at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.

By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday sent a letter to public health officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to examine how each state regulates and monitors abortion clinics and protects the health and safety of women. The trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell...

By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Blairsville, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Maryland resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to transport stolen motor vehicles across state lines, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), subcommittee member Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), and Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) today sent a letter to the Department of Commerce’s Inspector General Todd Zinser to applaud plans to audit the NTIA stimulus grant awarded...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: A man who used marijuana and possessed a firearm after being convicted of a felony offense was sentenced today to almost six years in federal prison.

By US DOT Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Today, the eight Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee did not attend the nomination vote of Gina McCarthy to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), leading to a postponement of the vote for a period yet to be determined. On April 25, 2013, the Committee Republicans asked Chairman Barbara Boxer to postpone the nomination vote because they had not yet received answers to their five main requests.

By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.

By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding Speaker Boehner’s statement that he learned at yesterday’s hearing on Benghazi about a Sept. 12, 2012, email in which senior State Department officials stated that they had told Libyan officials that the attacks in Benghazi were conducted by Ansar al-Sharia...

By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its bipartisan review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), releasing today the third in a series of white papers examining 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 | May 9, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Calvin Louis Smith, 56, a Canton City Alderman, was arraigned today in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda R. Anderson pursuant to a federal indictment charging him with bribery in connection with a series of transactions of the City of Canton, Mississippi, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen.

By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - The former president of Port Arthur Chemical and Environmental Services, LLC (PACES) has pleaded guilty in federal court to occupational safety crimes which resulted in the death of an employee, announced John M. Bales, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, and Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of robbing a commercial store, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Earlier this week a federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Blessed Marvelous Herve, a/k/a Rodrigue Herve Ngandou, a/k/a Herve Rodrigue Ngandou, a/k/a Blessed Roll Herve, of San Francisco, for wire fraud, United States Attorney MELINDA HAAG announced.
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday sent a letter to public health officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to examine how each state regulates and monitors abortion clinics and protects the health and safety of women. The trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell...
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) today introduced H.R. 1900, the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act, a bipartisan bill to modernize the federal review process for natural gas pipeline permit applications.

By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), subcommittee member Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), and Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) today sent a letter to the Department of Commerce’s Inspector General Todd Zinser to applaud plans to audit the NTIA stimulus grant awarded...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2013
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - - In Austin, four men face up to 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted them of their roles in a complex conspiracy to launder millions of dollars in illicit Los Zetas drug trafficking proceeds to purchase, train, breed, and race American quarter horses in the United States...