News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Four people from Buffalo, New York, were indicted on charges that they used fraudulent credit cards to buy $19,500 worth of gift cards from a Walmart and Rite Aid in Cleveland, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3675, the FCC Process Reform Act, by voice vote. Authored by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), this bipartisan legislation aims to increase transparency, predictability, and accountability to the commission.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to the General Motors Company (GM) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requesting information about their response to consumer complaints related to problems with stalling, airbag deployment, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a response letter to members of the Louisianan Congressional Delegation regarding the nomination of Rhea Suh to be Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks at the U.S. Department of Interior ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Capps, 52, of Truth or Consequences, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M.to a felony information charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: On Thursday, March 13 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing on the Protecting Health Care Providers from Increased Administrative Burdens Act (H.R. 3633). The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to the General Motors Company (GM) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requesting information about their response to consumer complaints related to problems with stalling, airbag deployment, ...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Representative George Miller (D-CA), senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, today welcomed the Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed rule to ensure employers are given a summary of the fees being charged in connection with their 401(k) and other retirement plans.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3675, the FCC Process Reform Act, by voice vote. Authored by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), this bipartisan legislation aims to increase transparency, predictability, and accountability to the commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr., announced the recent unsealing of a superseding indictment charging members of the Frenchmen/Derbigny gang, or “FnD," with violating federal drug and firearm laws. A federal grand jury returned the superseding indictment on Feb. 27, 2014, charging TRAVIS SCOTT...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: LAKE MEAD WELCOMES 6.3 MILLION VISITORS IN 2013; RECREATION AREAS TOP DRAW FOR NPS.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Donovan Isiah Sisco, 19, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Sanostee, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 18 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for his aggravated burglary conviction. Sisco also was ordered to pay $9,214.31 in restitution to the victim of his crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, John A. Bolduc, Chief, Port St. Lucie Police Department, Ken J. Mascara, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, Sean Baldwin...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and David Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today that a federal jury found former Arkansas State Treasurer Martha Ann Shoffner...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the Senate’s approval of the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, legislation introduced by committee member Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS). The bill, which would redirect wasteful spending on political conventions...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Jose Gutierrez III, 21, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Gutierrez pleaded guilty Nov. 8, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: From humble beginnings in a series of accidental discoveries, SQUIDs have invaded and enhanced many areas of science and medicine, thanks, in part, to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the Senate’s approval of the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, legislation introduced by committee member Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS). The bill, which would redirect wasteful spending on political conventions...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: The Obama Administration’s Cuts to the Medicare Advantage Program Threaten the Care of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 11, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement three years after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster. In the aftermath of the disaster, which occurred on March 11, 2011, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued recommendations and safeguards related to nuclear facilities in the U.S.
