News from October 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement after House Democrats refused to back legislation supported by District of Columbia Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., that would allow the city to spend its locally generated revenue...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Devils Tower, WY - Because of the shutdown of the federal government caused by the lapse in appropriations, the National Park Service (NPS) has closed all 401 national parks, including Devils Tower National Monument. All visitor facilities including Devils Tower Visitor Center, campground and roads are closed. The park will remain closed until the government reopens.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: “I’m really confused," “I’m just really frustrated," “We could crash and burn," and “We’ve been a little overwhelmed," is how Americans, health care professionals and job creators have been talking about ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges - the online marketplace where the uninsured are mandated to shop for health care coverage.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today expressed support for approving the Transboundary Agreement between the United States and Mexico during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on legislation to approve the agreement and provide the Secretary of Interior authority to implement it.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations (IRS-CI), announce that Edda Obando, 65, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced on Sept. 30, 2013 based on her earlier guilty plea to making and subscribing a false tax return, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(1).
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s expulsion of U.S. embassy personnel.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement regarding President Maduro’s expulsion of three U.S. diplomats from Venezuela, and the passage of a resolution in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee supporting Venezuelan democracy and condemning violence and intimidation against the country’s political opposition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: NEW YORK - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of (FBI) and Joseph...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Michigan man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for distributing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Due to the shutdown of the federal government resulting from a lapse in appropriations, the Bureau of Reclamation is furloughing approximately 3,311 of its 5,077 employees and is implementing detailed contingency plans in 17 western states - plans designed to ensure continued activities related to the management of water and power and the protection of key water and power infrastructure in the West.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 113,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Due to the government shutdown, the offices of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are currently closed. As a result, this website will not be updated. Updates on Committee hearings will be individually advised.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE/SHREVEPORT/MONROE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that operations of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, all divisions - Lafayette, Shreveport, Monroe, Alexandria and Lake Charles are being affected by the partial shutdown in effect since midnight, Oct. 1, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Robert Cedrick Baker, III, age 37, of Gainesville, Florida entered a plea of guilty today to possession with intent to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Mr. Baker entered his plea before the Honorable Hugh Lawson, United States District Judge in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - This morning, the United States Supreme Court granted the petition of the.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Thursday, October 3 at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the growing threat of al-Shabaab, the Somalia-based and al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Purchased Thousands Of Oxycodone Pills For Distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted on charges of bank embezzlement, bank fraud and mail fraud United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Congressman Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the Republican House leadership shut down the federal government...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2013
News Release: Mineral, CA - Because of the shutdown of the federal government caused by the lapse in appropriations, the National Park Service (NPS) has closed all 401 national parks, including Lassen Volcanic National Park. All visitor facilities including Kohm Yah-mah-nee visitor center, Loomis museum, Drakesbad...
