News from May 2013
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Boston African American National Historic Site and several Greater Boston educational, historical, and cultural institutions presented the symposium Freedom Rising: The 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and African...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WESTON, Fla. - Today the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) made the synthetic cannabinoids UR-144, XLR11, and AKB48 Schedule I, illegal drugs under the Controlled Substances (CSA) for the next two years. These cannabinoids are often seen in so-called “fake pot" products that are falsely marketed and sold as “herbal incense" or “potpourri" products on the Internet and by a variety of retail stores.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced that a.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: MICHAEL LARRIEU, age 25, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged in an indictment by a Federal Grand Jury for failure to register as a sex offender, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By State Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, spoke on the Senate Floor today, taking issue with characterizations that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and others have not sufficiently investigated the tragedy in Benghazi.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee today voiced their support to fully repeal the president’s health care law. Since the reforms became law three years ago, the committee has conducted rigorous oversight to educate the American people on the law’s impact on patients, providers, the economy, and states. With each day that passes, the committee continues to discover more consequences as a result of the law’s mandates, fees, policies, and taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: David John Pederson, 55, an inmate at the Federal Prison Camp at Marion, Illinois, appeared today for arraignment in United States District Court in Benton on charges that he escaped from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern...
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: KEYSTONE APPLICATION AT 1,700 DAYS. 1,700 days have now passed since TransCanada first applied to the U.S. State Department for a Presidential Permit to construct the Keystone XL pipeline. After over four-and-a-half years of review, this landmark jobs and energy project remains needlessly tied up in...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: JOSE GONZALEZ-GRANA, age 35, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty in federal court today before U. S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon to a two-count indictment charging him with making a false statement claiming United States citizenship and illegal use of a Social Security number, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) issued the following statement in response to the Bureau of Land Management’s revised rule for hydraulic fracturing on federal lands...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOHN J. SIMON, JR., also known as “Buzzy Simon," 66, of Stafford Springs, was arrested yesterday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Pleas Include 36-Month Sentencing Recommendation;Forfeiture of Assets.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: BENJAMIN M. GELLER, age 53, a resident of Austin, Texas, was charged today in a one-count bill of information with wire fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee today voiced their support to fully repeal the president’s health care law. Since the reforms became law three years ago, the committee has conducted rigorous oversight to educate the American people on the law’s impact on patients, providers, the economy, and states. With each day that passes, the committee continues to discover more consequences as a result of the law’s mandates, fees, policies, and taxes.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: KEYSTONE APPLICATION AT 1,700 DAYS. 1,700 days have now passed since TransCanada first applied to the U.S. State Department for a Presidential Permit to construct the Keystone XL pipeline. After over four-and-a-half years of review, this landmark jobs and energy project remains needlessly tied up in...
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) issued the following statement in response to the Bureau of Land Management’s revised rule for hydraulic fracturing on federal lands...
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) issued the following statement in response to the Bureau of Land Management’s revised rule for hydraulic fracturing on federal lands...
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Smoke could be visible north of Grand Mesa Thursday as fire managers from the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit plan a prescribed burn to improve public land conditions.
By US DOT Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the top Republican of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, said that Republicans will attend today's business meeting to consider the nomination of Gina McCarthy to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). McCarthy currently serves as the Assistant ...
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittees on Energy and Power and Environment and the Economy today held a joint hearing to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget request. Members questioned EPA Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe on a range of issues...
