News from July 2014
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today issued the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed restrictions on possible economic development activity on state-owned lands in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region:
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: Report shows visitor spending supports 136 jobs in local economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - United States Attorney Richard G. Callahan today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has filed a Motion to Intervene on behalf of the FBI in the ACLU lawsuit seeking the release of FBI reports in possession of St. Louis County under the Missouri Sunshine law. Callahan explained...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Anoushirvan Sarraf, 48, of Rockville, Maryland, the owner and operator of Aphrodite Advanced Esthetic & Skin Care Clinic (Aphrodite) in McLean, Virginia, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison and 2 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: An information was filed today charging Blake Rubin, 30, of Huntington Valley, PA, Chase Rubin 28, of Rydal, PA, and Justin Diaczuk, 31, of Philadelphia, PA, with running a multi-million dollar telemarketing scam, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the information, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former employee of The Vacation Ownership Group LLC, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $3 million in restitution for conspiring to defraud owners of timeshare properties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 21. The committee will explore ways to improve communication in the health care system, review modernizing environmental regulation, discuss how personalized medicine and technological advances can improve the health care system, examine state energy policies, and review a number of bills before the Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal today to use the Clean Water Act (CWA) in order to block the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: July 16, 2014 - Sedro-Woolley, WA - Lace up your hiking boots, grab a camera or smartphone, and join North Cascades National Park Service Complex for the second part of 2014 BioBlitz. On July 12 and 13, research scientists, park naturalists, and citizen-scientists kicked-off the four week event in Newhalem and at Cascade Pass. A continuation of that effort is about to begin. .
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: San Juan National Historic Site Celebrates 10th Annual Artisan Fair.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the Australian government's decision to repeal a tax on carbon emissions.
By State Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement urging Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to denounce an open letter published in Yeni Akit, a Turkish newspaper, demanding that the head of the Turkish Jewish community issue a statement apologizing for Palestinian casualties in Gaza...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today regarding the news that on Monday, President Obama will sign an Executive Order (EO) banning workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) workers among federal contractors. The EO will also ban discrimination against federal workers on the basis of gender identity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Elizabeth A. Eurioste, age 64, of Aurora, Colorado was sentenced earlier this week by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 6 months in federal prison for aiding or assisting in the preparation of a false individual federal income tax return, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Stephen Boyd announce. Following her prison sentence, Eurioste, was ordered to spend 1 year on supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 21. The committee will explore ways to improve communication in the health care system, review modernizing environmental regulation, discuss how personalized medicine and technological advances can improve the health care system, examine state energy policies, and review a number of bills before the Communications and Technology Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on July 16, 2014, Richard G. Staples, 24, Parshall, N.D., pleaded guilty to and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: Today, the United States Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to apply a reduction in the sentencing guideline levels applicable to most federal drug inmates retroactively. Unless Congress disapproves the amendment, beginning Nov. 1, 2014, eligible inmates can ask courts to reduce their sentences...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: July 18, 2014, 8:30 a.m. Marblemount, WA-The Lone Mountain Fire grew to about 650 acres yesterday, still moving upward and away from the Stehekin community. The fire is now on both sides of Butte Creek, a tributary of Boulder Creek where the main fire started.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to update a 1996 report by re-examining all current systems and subsystems maintained by the Bureau of Alcohol, ...
