News from September 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) met today with family farmers and local business leaders in Memphis, Tennessee, to talk about the critical need to overhaul the nation’s tax code in order to boost its fairness, reduce complexity and improve the economy.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: Andersonville National Historic Site is pleased to announce the installation of Armistice Ends The War, a new temporary exhibit at the National Prisoner of War Museum.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 2052, the Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2013, by a vote of 379 to 32. This bipartisan jobs legislation, authored by Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) and Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: Mortgage Fraud Conspiracy Resulted in More Than $10 Million in Fraudulently Obtained Loan Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Hans Schenk was sentenced on September 6, 2013, to four years in prison for wire fraud, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today will vote on legislation to streamline Federal Communications Commission reporting requirements by reducing the number of reports the commission is obligated to produce. Authored by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) along with Communications and Technology...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) Republican staff today released their report entitled, "A Call for Sunshine: EPA's FOIA and Federal Records Failures Uncovered."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: Adalberto Ariel Guzman (a.k.a. “Gringo") And MS-13 Co-Conspirators Executed 19 Year-Old Vanessa Argueta And Her Two Year-Old Son Diego Torres.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives will vote today on H.R. 2052, the Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2013. The bill, authored by Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) and Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), seeks to increase the United States’ ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement regarding moving forward on the 2013 Farm Bill. Chairwoman Stabenow joined Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid and Neil Young at a news conference today and called on House leadership to announce their conferees and officially begin conferencing the Farm Bill before the current extension expires on Sept. 30.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives will vote today on H.R. 2052, the Global Investment in American Jobs Act of 2013. The bill, authored by Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) and Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), seeks to increase the United States’ ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today will vote on legislation to streamline Federal Communications Commission reporting requirements by reducing the number of reports the commission is obligated to produce. Authored by Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) along with Communications and Technology...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: NEW YORK -- Today, the National Park Service and the New York City Department of Education celebrated the opening of a high school in lower Manhattan that offers a one-of-a-kind academic experience. The Stephen T. Mather Building Arts and Craftsmanship High School is a Career and Technical Education (CTE) high school that will offer a hands-on curriculum in the preservation-related trades of carpentry, masonry, plastering, decorative finishing and landscape management.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: Shanksville, Pa.- The Department of the Interior announced today that Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will travel to Shanksville, Pa. to participate in the groundbreaking of the Flight 93 National Memorial Visitor Center Complex onTuesday, Sept. 10, and to deliver remarks at the annual September...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: Improving tests and vaccination methods are some of the strategies U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are using to overcome obstacles that prevent the eradication of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in cattle worldwide.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced that more passengers will be eligible for expedited security screening through TSA's Trusted Traveler program by the end of the year. Through this update to the program, TSA will determine if passengers are of low risk based...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: Jan. 23, 2013, Phone Call Led To Campus Lock Down.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Christopher Wallace, 25, of Bastrop, La., pleaded guilty Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Michael Hill to attempting to receive child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2013
News Release: A Mansfield man was found guilty of more than two dozen charges in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme which caused approximately $1.3 million in losses to Geauga Savings Bank, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, Washington Mutual Bank, Interbaby Funding, LLC, and Suntrust Mortgage, Inc, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
