News from December 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing examining Social Security's impact on women...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Shawn Thomas Gregory, 39, of Harrisburg, Illinois, was sentenced on December 8, 2014, in United States District Court in East St. Louis to a term of 141 months in federal prison for...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., called on the House to pass and send the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Improvement Act to the President for his signature following its unanimous passage in the Senate last night.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing titled “Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against ISIL."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of ALPHA RASHIDI MSHIHIRI, 39, to 150 months in federal prison for orchestrating a multi-million dollar mortgage fraud conspiracy. MSHIHIRI was convicted, on Feb. 20, 2014, following a seven-day trial, of each count of the indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Wallace D. Peace, 39, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 280 grams of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 262 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By State Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing TOMORROW to examine the Administration’s progress combating ISIS. The hearing, entitled “Countering ISIS: Are We Making Progress? " will take place on Wednesday, December 10 at 10:00 a.m. in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
Release: Fresno, CA, December 9, 2014 - Agriculture Under Secretary Kevin Concannon today announced that more than half of the nation’s high-poverty schools are now offering breakfasts and lunches to students at no cost through the new Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), made possible by the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The provision improves access to nutritious meals for low-income students while reducing administrative burdens for households and schools.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: 2014 Total enacted level: $34.1 billion.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today said Social Security must do more to support women in retirement, whose savings often lag behind men’s due to lower average earnings and a greater likelihood to leave the workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that YU LONG, 36, formerly of New Haven, Conn., has been arrested and charged with attempting to travel...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service is pleased to announce the annual Frederick Douglass National Historic Site oratorical contest on Friday, Dec. 12, and Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014. The contestants, students in first through twelfth grades, will present a portion of a Douglass speech from the...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) reacted to the annual "Best Places to Work in the Federal Government " rankings released by the Partnership for Public Service. Each year, the Partnership for Public Service releases federal agency rankings...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today, December 9, 2014, that a criminal Information has been filed in federal court in Johnstown charging a United States Postal Service employee with misappropriation of postal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas woman who stole the identity of a registered nurse and used that identity to work at several Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area hospice companies, appeared in court this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan, and pleaded guilty to a federal offense stemming from that conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that former Freedom Industries executive Gary Southern was arrested Monday, December 8, 2014, in the Middle District of Florida. He made his initial court appearance today at 1:00 p.m. before United States Magistrate Judge Carol Mirando in Ft.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) slammed the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on mismanaged tax credits after a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) found that the refundable Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) were fraught with waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. ?The Marion County Sheriff's Department will receive a check in the amount of $751,515.71, which represents the majority of funds forfeited in a marijuana trafficking case prosecuted in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Dr. Ellen Williams was confirmed by the United States Senate on Monday, December 8, 2014 as the Director of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Pipestone,MN: Superintendent Glen H. Livermont announced that, due to the upcoming federal holidays, the Monument Visitor Center will be closed on December 25th,2014 and January 1st, 2015. The Pipestone Indian Shrine Association gift shop, located at the Visitor Center, will also be closed on the same days.
