News from October 2013
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee today began its review of H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, legislation authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX). The bill aims to create a more modern, efficient, and transparent cross-border approval process for oil pipelines, natural gas pipelines, and electric transmission lines that traverse the borders of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN B. MAIA, 73, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to three months of home confinement and one year of probation for lying to federal agents conducting a tax fraud investigation. MAIA was also ordered to perform 200 hours of community service and pay a $1,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - The Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced today the filing of a complaint alleging that the Iron Workers District Council of New England Pension Fund (the Pension Fund) and the Trustees of the Iron Workers District Council of New England Pension Fund (the Trustees)...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee today began its review of H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, legislation authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX). The bill aims to create a more modern, efficient, and transparent cross-border approval process for oil pipelines, natural gas pipelines, and electric transmission lines that traverse the borders of the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today adopted four bills to enhance accountability of how the government spends taxpayer dollars.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 29, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing on “A Roadmap for Increasing our Water and Hydropower Supplies: The Need for New or Expanded Multi-Purpose Surface Storage Facilities." This hearing examined the growing need for and the multiple-use benefits of increased water storage and ways to expedite the construction of such facilities.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: “Earlier modeling work suggested that coral reefs would be gone by the middle of this century. Our study shows that if corals can adapt to warming that has occurred over the past 40 to 60 years, some coral reefs may persist through the end of this century," said study lead author Cheryl Logan, Ph.D., ...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee today began its review of H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, legislation authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX). The bill aims to create a more modern, efficient, and transparent cross-border approval process for oil pipelines, natural gas pipelines, and electric transmission lines that traverse the borders of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX- On Oct. 25, 2013, Lee Kinder Tso, 51, of Many Farms, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 141 months in federal prison. He had previously pleaded guilty on March 15, 2013, to assault with a dangerous weapon and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - John Alan Hunt was sentenced yesterday to five and a half years in prison for trafficking methamphetamine, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: PAGO PAGO, American Samoa - On Oct. 31, the National Park of American Samoa will celebrate 25 years of partnerships, preservation, and protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The former treasurer of the Mayetta Rural Fire District #1 in Jackson County, Kan., has been charged in federal court with embezzling more than $427,000 from the district, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, announced that the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has agreed to his demands to ensure appropriate allocation guidance is developed and the Gulf of Mexico red snapper issues ...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Winter Harbor, Maine- The Artist-in-Residence (A-I-R) program at Acadia National Park, located in the Schoodic District in Winter Harbor, Maine, is now accepting applications for its June 2014 through May 2015 season. Acadia's A-I-R program offers professional writers, composers, and all visual and performing...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on “EPA’s Regulatory Threat to Affordable, Reliable Energy: The Perspective of Coal Communities." Today’s hearing featured witnesses from communities particularly reliant on coal...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: We start this hearing facing a basic reality: Democrats want to make the Affordable Care Act work. Congressional Republicans don't. That reality has been reflected in 40-plus efforts by Republicans to repeal, dismantle or defund the Affordable Care Act.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Today the House of Representatives is considering the Retail Investor Protection Act (H.R. 2374), bipartisan legislation to help protect the retirement security of hardworking Americans.
By State Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, convened a hearing to examine the next steps on U.S. policy toward Egypt. Senior officials from the State Department, Defense Department, and USAID are testifying at the hearing, entitled “Next Steps on Egypt Policy.".
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on “EPA’s Regulatory Threat to Affordable, Reliable Energy: The Perspective of Coal Communities." Today’s hearing featured witnesses from communities particularly reliant on coal...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 29, 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 after the Senate voted to advance the nomination of Richard Griffin to serve as General Counsel to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Griffin’s nomination was approved by the Senate HELP Committee in September.
