News from November 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing to discuss EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas standards for new power plants and draft legislation authored by Chairman Whitfield and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). The bipartisan draft offers an alternative to these unworkable standards as well as EPA’s planned regulations for existing power plants.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement after the President announced a proposal to grandfather insurance plans...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: The U.S. has reached a significant milestone in its journey toward energy self-sufficiency, producing more oil than it imported last month for the first time in nearly two decades. This achievement comes as the International Energy Agency this week released its annual World Energy Outlook, which predicts...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Chamizal National Memorial Administrative Officer Gregory N. Spaulding passed away in his sleep over the holiday weekend in El Paso, Texas. Prior to hiring on with the NPS in March, 2011 Greg had a lifelong federal career that included several positions, primarily in Public Information and Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - United States Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced this morning that Donald J. Sachtleben, age 55, of Carmel, a former FBI bomb technician who later worked as a government contractor for the agency, has been sentenced to 140 months (11 years, 8 months) in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography, as well as unlawfully disclosing national defense information relating to a disrupted terrorist plot.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: VAN BUREN MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways Superintendent Bill Black encourages public review and comment on the Draft General Management Plan/Wilderness Study/Environmental Statement (Draft Plan), which became available on November 8. The Draft Plan may be reviewed online at www.parkplanning.nps.gov/ozar. Comments may also be submitted on this website.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: TUSCALOOSA -- A federal judge today sentenced a Tuscaloosa man to 25 years in prison for his part in a string of armed gas station convenience store robberies in December 2011, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on “The Impact of Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) on Innovation and the Economy." The subcommittee is investigating recent trends in patent assertion practices to gain a better...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, made the following statements concerning Mingo Logan Coal Company's (Mingo Logan) request for Supreme Court review ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Jakeith Terrell Campbell, 31, of Mobile, was sentenced in federal court today to a total term of 35 years imprisonment. Campbell entered guilty pleas to charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and two counts of using, carrying and possession of a firearm...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - David Rothman, 50, of Richboro, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday to 48 months in prison for wire fraud and money laundering. Rothman was the Vice-President of Rothman Securities, Inc. (“RSI"), an investment brokerage firm in Southampton, Pennsylvania. Between January 2007 and February...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Obamacare Implementation Problems: More than Just a Broken Website." The hearing is the latest in the committee’s examination of the negative consequences of the president’s health care law. Despite...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: A federal indictment was filed today charging Gregory Frazier, aka Gregory Fernandez, age 53, of New York, New York, with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 35-year-old Scranton man was charged today with stealing money from a bank where he worked as a teller.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the President’s announcement that Americans may keep their current plans for one year without penalty.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement in response to President Obama’s announcement of another administrative “fix" to his health care law...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: A businessman who made a false statement to a bank in order to obtain a loan pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere man was arrested today in connection with a conspiracy to fraudulently issue identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Overcriminalization Task Force held a hearing entitled, “Regulatory Crime: Solutions." At the hearing, Mr. John S. Baker, Jr., Ph.D. - a visiting professor at Georgetown Law School - and Mr. Lucian E. Dervan - an assistant professor at Southern Illinois University ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Earlier today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) urged members of the House of Representatives to pass H.R. 3350, the Keep Your Health Plan Act. The bipartisan legislation would allow plans currently available on the individual market to be offered next year.
