News from January 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today advanced H.R. 3826, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, authored by subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). The bipartisan, bicameral legislation provides a reasonable alternative to EPA’s proposed...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Just days before the launch of the health care exchanges, on Sept. 26, President Obama traveled to a community college in Maryland to build excitement for the start of open enrollment. The president told folks, “Like any law, like any big product launch, there are going to be some...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville man pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to robbing four banks located in Jefferson County, Kentucky, during a two week period, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Jose Armando Juarez-Garcia, 28, pleaded guilty in United States District Court in for the District of New Hampshire to reentering the United States after having been deported to his home country of Mexico, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper, (D-Del), Ranking Member Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), and House Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Fred Upton (R-Mich) highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report entitled, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Rochester, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Iteru Masui, 29, of Mikata, Japan, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with entering into an agreement to illegally export items that are export controlled by federal regulation, and illegally exporting the items. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - In opening remarks at a regional drug abuse symposium held in Annapolis today, U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein sounded the alarm about a surge in drug overdose deaths and addiction and called on parents and teachers to “teach every student, from first grade through twelfth grade, about the horrible consequences of using heroin and other debilitating addictive drugs.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Using an approach akin to assembling a club sandwich at the nanoscale, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have succeeded in crafting a uniform, multi-walled carbon-nanotube-based coating that greatly reduces the flammability of foam commonly used in upholstered furniture and other soft furnishings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced today that Lawrence Allen Wright, 46, of Niceville, Florida, was sentenced by Senior Federal District Court Judge Lacey A. Collier to 75 months in prison and ordered to pay over $3.7 million dollars in restitution.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Just days before the launch of the health care exchanges, on Sept. 26, President Obama traveled to a community college in Maryland to build excitement for the start of open enrollment. The president told folks, “Like any law, like any big product launch, there are going to be some...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Arnold Rojas Rivas, 46, a businessman from San Antonio, Texas, pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from a scheme in which he defrauded a federal agency and a private company of nearly $1.7 million, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 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 applauded the U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit Court’s decision that strikes down part of the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) convened the hearing, “Examining Conference and Travel Spending Across the Federal Governments." For more information on the hearing or.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Audrey Elrod Faces Up To 20 Years In Prison For Crimes.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to President Barack Obama regarding the Administration's failure to fully implement the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008, which was sponsored by then-Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill).
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper, (D-Del), Ranking Member Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), and House Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Fred Upton (R-Mich) highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report entitled, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Jan. 13, 2014, Jason Curtis Jones, 36, of Elizabethton, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 78 months in prison; Michael Lelon Sharp, 50, of Blountville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 72 months in prison; and Donnie Ray Horne, 55, of Kingsport, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 71 months in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, for their participation in an oxycodone conspiracy centered in and around the Sullivan County area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, Montana, on Jan. 14, 2014, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Strong, the following individual appeared.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 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 applauded the U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit Court’s decision that strikes down part of the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules.
