News from March 2014
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3826, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, by a vote of 229 to 183. The bipartisan legislation will protect an affordable and diverse electricity portfolio by providing a reasonable alternative to EPA’s greenhouse gas rules for power plants.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the first discussion draft of legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA), which contains provisions that will expire on Dec. 31, 2014. The subcommittee will discuss the draft legislation at a hearing next Wednesday, March 12, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Bobby Edward Tubb, 31-year-old owner of Tubb Collision in Centerville, TX, will spend 51 months in federal prison for his involvement in the falsification and removal of vehicle identification numbers (VINs), announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw and Leon County Sheriff Kevin Ellis.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JASON BRETT MERIDA, age 41, of Rattan, Oklahoma was arraigned in federal court on March 6, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - A former employee of the United States Army Corps of Engineers made his initial appearance in federal court Wednesday, March 5, 2014, after being indicted by a grand jury for bribery of a public official, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz of the District of Massachusetts announced today that they have entered into a consent decree with HRB Digital LLC and HRB Tax Group Inc., subsidiaries of H&R Block Inc., to remedy...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the ongoing effort to protect America’s seniors and most vulnerable citizens, House Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) today introduced H.R. 4160, the Keep the Promise to Seniors Act. H.R. 4160 would protect and preserve the integrity of the Medicare...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the first discussion draft of legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act (STELA), which contains provisions that will expire on Dec. 31, 2014. The subcommittee will discuss the draft legislation at a hearing next Wednesday, March 12, 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the ongoing effort to protect America’s seniors and most vulnerable citizens, House Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) today introduced H.R. 4160, the Keep the Promise to Seniors Act. H.R. 4160 would protect and preserve the integrity of the Medicare...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on March 6, 2014, Abraham Clifford Wilson, 47, of Fargo N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to 105 months in prison for bank robbery.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today continued its hearing series “Benefits of and Challenges to Energy Access in the 21st Century" with a focus on fuel supply and infrastructure. The hearing explored how rail, pipelines, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) and other members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today introduced bipartisan legislation to help expedite the export of U.S. liquefied natural gas to our global allies, including Ukraine and other Eastern European nations currently at the mercy of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Texas man has been charged in federal court with traveling to Missouri to engage in illicit sex with two minor sisters whose “father" (an undercover officer)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Richard (45, Viera) with attempting to aid and abet the distribution...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3826, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, by a vote of 229 to 183. The bipartisan legislation will protect an affordable and diverse electricity portfolio by providing a reasonable alternative to EPA’s greenhouse gas rules for power plants.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the ongoing effort to protect America’s seniors and most vulnerable citizens, House Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) today introduced H.R. 4160, the Keep the Promise to Seniors Act. H.R. 4160 would protect and preserve the integrity of the Medicare...
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Washington D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, gave the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s full committee hearing “U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Ukraine.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced MICHAEL ANTONIO HARRIS, 38, of Greenville, North Carolina, to 180 months of imprisonment and 10 years of supervised release. HARRIS previously pled guilty to possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today thatLeo Cortez Vinson Jr., 40, of Shreveport, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth Foote, to 24 months in prison with one year of supervised release for failing to appear for sentencing on a tax fraud charge.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Statement of Chairman Boxer Hearing on Preventing Potential Chemical Threats and Improving Safety: Oversight of the President's Executive Order on Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security March 6, 2014 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) Today, this Committee continues its important oversight ...
