News from May 2013
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member David Vitter (R-LA) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today sent a letter to Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), asking for a report on the methods and procedures currently being utilized by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to conduct cost analyses when developing and proposing new policies and regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Three of the four individuals who pleaded guilty last year to their roles in a conspiracy to unlawfully disclose and obtain sensitive government contract information, were sentenced today in federal court in Dallas by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: All Americans who love natural places are commemorating National Trails Day on June 1, and Everglades National Park's nationally award winning volunteer program is hosting an event. Anyone who would like to participate is encouraged to come be a part of the celebration. National Trails...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Defendant Alleged to Have Communicated Online with an Undercover Investigator Posing as a.
By US DOT Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congressman Fred Upton (R-Mich.-6), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today sent a letter to Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), asking ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging a Youngstown man with making threats against the President and First Lady of the United States, Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio,.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an examination of the performance, effectiveness, and management of the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Commerce (DOC-IG).
By US DOT Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: U.S. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and David Vitter (R-LA) today announced support for their bipartisan legislation to modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) by former top Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) toxics officials from the Administrations of President Barack Obama and George ...
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 115,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Today, Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released a discussion draft designed to address some of the outstanding patent issues, including litigation abuse. Following the release of this discussion draft, ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), today introduced the Family and Retirement Health Investment Act of 2013, legislation to strengthen and expand Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Arrangements (FSAs) for Americans. Companion legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-Minn.).
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today approved H.R. 2052, the Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Subcommittee Chairman Terry and Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), seeks to increase...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury returned guilty verdicts late yesterday against five defendants charged in a conspiracy to commit an armed home invasion robbery against another drug dealer in Philadelphia. Robert Lamar Whitfield, 33, Marlon Graham, 22, Kenneth Parnell, 27, Kareem Long, 23, and Frank Thompson...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANGELINA VELASQUEZ, 46, of Trumbull, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 15 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for two fraud offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) reacted to President Obama’s decision to nominate Katherine Archuleta to be Director of the Office of Personnel Management. Chairman Carper has called on the Obama Administration to quickly work to nominate qualified individuals to fill key management level positions that are vacant.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Frank Carter, 43, a former officer with the Laredo Police Department (LPD), has been sentenced to prison following his conviction for violating the civil rights of an arrestee, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Thomas E. Perez. Carter pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 7, 2013.
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member David Vitter (R-LA) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today sent a letter to Gene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), asking for a report on the methods and procedures currently being utilized by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to conduct cost analyses when developing and proposing new policies and regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Two Silencers Stolen from Licensed Firearm Dealer.
By US DOT Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the top Republican on the Committee on Environment and Public Works, today commented on a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report on the impacts of a carbon tax. According to CBO, reductions in emissions in the U.S. would "probably have only a modest effect on the Earth's ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today examined the current state of drug compounding in the United States. The hearing was a continuation of the committee’s investigation of the fungal meningitis outbreak, and whether the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...
