News from March 2014
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the administration’s delay to the health law’s open enrollment period...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will appear next week at separate committee hearings to review their respective agency’s proposed budget request and priorities. McCarthy will testify at a joint hearing before the Energy...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the committee’s ongoing commitment to the safety and security of our nation’s energy infrastructure, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today hosted a briefing for bipartisan members of the committee and members of the California delegation on grid security issues, including the attack last spring on the Metcalf substation in San Jose, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Mansfield man was arrested Monday and arraigned in U.S. District Court in Boston on Tuesday, March 24 on charges that he defrauded a married couple out of nearly $200,000 in connection with alleged real estate transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz spoke at Boston College Law School on March 26 as a part of a speaker series for Diversity and Inclusion, presented by the Boston College Latin American Law Students Association. “From Tough on Crime to Smart on Crime" was the theme of the night, where USA Ortiz spoke about...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Pat Jones, Chief of Interpretation and Education at Independence National Historical Park, has been awarded Eastern National's Superior Performance Award for her outstanding contributions to Eastern National and the mission of the National Park Service in 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jimmie Edward Augustine, Sr., 69, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Crownpoint, N.M., Pueblo, pleaded guilty this morning to an abusive sexual contact charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Trussville man to two years in prison for a scheme to collect millions of dollars from the Internal Revenue Service on false tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and IRS Criminal Investigation Division Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Mar. 26, 2014, James Dale Parker, Jr., 41, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 100 months in prison for possession of child pornography. Upon his release from prison he will be subject to 15 years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today confronted Interior Secretary Sally Jewell over her rejection of a lifesaving road for the Alaska community of King Cove. Murkowski called on the secretary to reopen the record of decision and reconsider the Christmas-time rejection of the project.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Pills Sold Throughout The United States Contained An Undisclosed Prescription Drug Banned By The National Football League.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Watertown, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for five counts of mail fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: On April 9 and 10, 2014, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a workshop that focuses on developing "privacy engineering" to ensure that privacy is an integral part of the design process of new IT products, services or systems.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the administration’s delay to the health law’s open enrollment period...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Christopher Michael O’Brien, age 40, of Eldersburg, Maryland pleaded guilty today to making false statements to obtain federal employee’s compensation.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following comment after the World Trade Organization ruled that China has unfairly restricted its export of rare earth elements:
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On March 25, 2014, Jesse R. Salmons-Rice, a 31 year-old resident of Malvern, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John Jarvey to 132 months in prison for manufacturing methamphetamine within 1,000 feet of a school, announced U.S. Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Salmons-Rice was also ordered to serve eight years of supervised release following the period of imprisonment.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: On Thursday, April 3, the White House and eight federal agencies will launch a four-part webinar series focused on evaluating, assessing, and mitigating the impacts of climate change on U.S. tribal communities. The “Climate Change Impacts and Indian Country" series is sponsored by the White House Office...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today welcomed the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision reversing a lower court ruling from 2011 that invalidated the Tongass National Forest’s exemption from the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: “A jury unanimously found that Sulaiman Abu Ghayth not only conspired to provide, and actually provided, material support to al Qaeda, but also conspired to kill Americans. He was more than just Usama bin Laden's propaganda minister. Within hours after the devastating 9/11 attacks, Abu Ghayth was using...
