News from June 2014
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with Sens. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), sent a letter to Jim Jones, Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding how the EPA's Office of ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives will vote today on H.R. 6, the Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act, authored by Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), which will expedite DOE’s approval of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Currently 26 export applications are pending at DOE, and some...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a full committee hearing entitled, “An Administration Made Disaster: The South Texas Border Surge of Unaccompanied Alien Minors." This hearing comes as a humanitarian crisis in parts of Central America is felt along the Southwest border of the United States ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, held a business meeting to consider the following legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Johnson County man pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to make false statements on a loan application while he was working as a senior vice president of a bank in Overland Park, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Press Conference with Transportation Leaders to Signal Highway Trust Fund Facing a Mayday Situation June 25, 2014 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) Today, we are facing a mayday situation, and I am here to send an SOS call to Congress and the American people. We are ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Gerald Lee Farrell, Jr., 47, formerly of Eagle, Idaho was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boise to 96 months in prison on charges of interstate travel with a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and possessing sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Farrell to serve 15 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Dear Leader-elect McCarthy: We write to request a meeting with you to discuss devising and advancing a bipartisan plan to renew emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) for millions of Americans who are still struggling to find work. Since EUC expired on Dec. 28, 2013 more than 3.1 million Americans,...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives will vote today on H.R. 6, the Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act, authored by Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), which will expedite DOE’s approval of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. Currently 26 export applications are pending at DOE, and some...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Osama “Sam" Mustafa Is Currently A Fugitive From Justice.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-In advance of a Senate vote on the bipartisan, bicameral Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), one of the lead Senate authors of the legislation, spoke on the floor to urge his Senate colleagues to support the legislation.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing, “Medicare Program Integrity: Screening Out Errors, Fraud, and Abuse," to discuss what steps need to be taken to eliminate the waste of tens of billions...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing, “Medicare Program Integrity: Screening Out Errors, Fraud, and Abuse," to discuss what steps need to be taken to eliminate the waste of tens of billions...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with Sens. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) sent a letter to Sally Jewell, Secretary of the Department of Interior, regarding the Department's oil and gas leasing plan for 2017 through 2022 on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders issued the following statements in response to today’s Supreme Court’s decision in American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the Finance Committee hearing on trade enforcement...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released for discussion a draft proposal for the upcoming reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA). The Higher Education Affordability Act takes a comprehensive...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney continues seeing results from Violent Crime Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Yesterday, a federal grand jury indicted Lara A. Karakasevic, AKA Lara Castle, and James C. Castle, AKA Chis Castle, with Conspiracy to Defraud the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing, “Medicare Program Integrity: Screening Out Errors, Fraud, and Abuse," to discuss what steps need to be taken to eliminate the waste of tens of billions...
