News from January 2014
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement upon the news that committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) will retire at the end of the 113th Congress...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA - The National Park Service will be conducting a prescribed pile burn on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 at Walnut Canyon National Monument. These piles are small hand piles which will be closely monitored to ensure good consumption and minimal smoke impact. The piles are located between the Walnut Canyon Visitor Center and U. S. Forest Road 303. The Legal is T 21 R 8 Sec 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Distributed Over a Ton of Cocaine in Baltimore in Less Than Two Years;.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: El Paso resident Gustavo Cervantes-Perez, age 26, will serve ten years in federal prison for possession and distribution of child pornography announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Dennis A. Ulrich, El Paso.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Post Falls, Idaho, man convicted of three counts of Failure to Pay Legal Child Support was sentenced on Jan. 23, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders responded today to the consent decree filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that establishes a deadline of Dec. 19, 2014, for the Environmental Protection Agency to take a final action on the coal ash rule that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Larceny.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: President Woodrow Wilson once said, “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.".
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today issued the following statement on Shell’s announcement that it is canceling plans to drill for oil in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea this summer.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Ms. Rhea Suh, Assistant Secretary for Policy Management and Budget the Department of the Interior (Interior). Suh is the nominee to become Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that two men convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance were sentenced on Jan. 27, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: VITTORIO FRANCESCO GONZALEZ-CASTILLO, age 26, a resident of Tucson, Arizona, was arrested in Arizona after being indicted by an Eastern District of Louisiana Federal Grand Jury on Jan. 24, 2014 for Conspiracy to Produce Child Pornography, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) backed the nominations of Dr. Karen Dynan to serve as the assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department and Dr. Richard Frank to serve as the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: JBROWNSVILLE, Texas - Francisco Javier Maya, 35, has been convicted of one count of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute approximately 1,000 pounds of marijuana, announced Steven S. Whipple, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), Houston...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today reiterated her call for the Obama administration to end the prohibition against exporting crude oil produced in the United States to spur job creation and increase the nation’s energy security.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - As educators, humanitarians, activists and leaders, Mary McLeod Bethune, Maggie Walker, Clara Barton and Harriet Tubman shaped the course of American history. Three nearby national parks will commemorate these and other inspirational women with events in DC, Maryland and Virginia. All events are free and open to the public.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement upon the news that committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA) will retire at the end of the 113th Congress...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding proposals to change and expand the current Universal Service Fund’s Schools and...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $2 million to help efficiently harness wind energy using taller towers. These projects will help strengthen U.S. wind turbine component manufacturing, reduce the cost of clean and renewable wind energy, and expand the geographic range of cost-effective wind power...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 30, 2014
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Oversight Hearing: NRC's Implementation of the Fukushima Near-Term Task Force Recommendations and other Actions to Enhance and Maintain Nuclear Safety Jan. 30, 2014 Today, the Environment and Public Works Committee is holding its eighth oversight hearing on the ...
