News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two southern Missouri men were indicted by a federal grand jury today, in separate and unrelated cases, on charges involving the sexual exploitation of children.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, the House of Representatives passed critical legislation that would help federal agencies thwart cyber attacks. The bill, which updates a 12-year-old law to meet the federal government’s current cybersecurity needs, establishes real-time monitoring of federal computer networks, and enhances oversight of federal data breaches, now heads to the President’s desk to be signed into law.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today continued the process of gathering public input ahead of the #CommActUpdate. The white paper released today explores the laws governing the market for video content distribution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., was sentenced in federal court on Dec. 9, 2014, to 24 months in prison and three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana was sentenced on December 8, 2014 by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a new policy paper highlighting the committee’s innovative solution to manage the disposal of coal ash through state and federal partnerships. Spearheaded by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV), H.R. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House and Senate leaders today welcomed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) decision to convene a series of technical conferences on the potential threat of new federal environmental regulations to the reliability of the nation’s electric power system.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for finalizing a waste-water and tailings disposal permit that will allow the Greens Creek Mine in Southeast Alaska to continue to operate for the next decade.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, the Senate approved the National Cybersecurity Protection Act of 2014. The legislation would codify the existing cybersecurity and communications operations center at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), known as the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Sen. Stabenow Identifies Resources Needed for Commodity Futures Trading Commission to Effectively Regulate Derivatives
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that NELSON FLORES-CRUZ, age 30, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a new policy paper highlighting the committee’s innovative solution to manage the disposal of coal ash through state and federal partnerships. Spearheaded by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV), H.R. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House and Senate leaders today welcomed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) decision to convene a series of technical conferences on the potential threat of new federal environmental regulations to the reliability of the nation’s electric power system.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-TX) issued the following statement on the implementation of ICD-10, the most recent coding system to be used by health care providers for reimbursement and other functions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A task force investigation into the street gang that has terrorized the Ramona Gardens housing complex in Boyle Heights for decades has resulted in a federal racketeering indictment and the arrest this morning of 25 members and associates of the criminal enterprise. During a law enforcement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TEQUILLA LEWIS, age 37, of New Orleans, was sentenced for conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to fraudulent applications she made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) for financial assistance in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan B. Jarvis has named 33-year NPS veteran Robert "Bob" Vogel as the new director of the National Capital Region (NCR). Vogel has served as the superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks since July 2011. He begins his new duties onDecember 14.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the statement below following the Senate's passage of a measure that would temporarily exempt small commercial and fishing vessels from the requirement to obtain a discharge permit. ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: The agreement includes a Continuing Resolution until February 27th for agencies within the Homeland Security Subcommittee. The agreement maintains the Fiscal Year 2014 spend rate of $39.270 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Shavonna Lakita Whitfield, 28, of Norfolk, Virginia, was sentenced today to 210 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for production of child pornography.
