News from May 2014
By State Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of the bipartisan Electrify Africa Act (H.R. 2548). The legislation, introduced by Chairman Royce, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ),...
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) and Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) wrote to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Acting Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Carolyn Colvin regarding media reports...
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is making a historic $78 million investment in local and regional food systems, including food hubs, farmers markets, aggregation and processing facilities, distribution services, and other local food business enterprises.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Thirteen employees of the United States Attorney’s Office and thirteen law enforcement officers were honored today with the Office’s most prestigious awards. At a ceremony held to announce the awards this morning at the U.S. Courthouse in Baltimore, the United States Attorney also welcomed a new Assistant U.S. Attorney and other employees who have joined the Office since last year.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: A stunning photograph of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore is the 2013 Grand Prize winner in the National Park Foundation's Share the Experience photo competition. Courtney Kotewa of Essexville, Michigan, was named the grand prize winner with her photo of kayaking on Lake Superior along Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: MIAMI, Fla. - Americans nationwide showed their support for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day program by dropping off more prescription pills than ever this past Saturday.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Americansnationwide showed their support for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day program by dropping off more prescription pills than ever this past Saturday.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that the Committee, acting under its authority granted in Sec. 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code, voted out a criminal referral letter to Department of Justice (DOJ) Attorney General Eric Holder regarding actions...
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing entitled, “Big Labor on College Campuses: Examining the Consequences of Unionizing Student Athletes." During the hearing, members listened as a higher education administrator, athletic director, and former student athlete discussed the negative effects of a recent National Labor Relations Board decision allowing the unionization of student athletes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that on May 2, 2014, Gregory Johnson, 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 38 months in prison for his participation in cocaine base distribution and the possession of firearm. Chief United States District Judge Christina Reiss, sitting in Burlington, also ordered Johnson to serve a term of three years of supervised release following his prison sentence.
By State Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, May 8, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Beckley, 30, of Centreville, Illinois, pled guilty to both federal charges on Oct. 30, 2013. He has been continuously confined since last October. At his change of plea hearing, Beckley...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, May 8, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that TAIMUR AURORA, 40, of Stamford, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Mark Jeff Zeldes, 52, of Broomfield, Colo., appeared today in federal court in Fresno to face charges contained in an indictment of cultivating and distributing marijuana, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement regarding Tax Day.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement on the March jobs report.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man was sentenced today for embezzling $60,000 from the Boston Veteran’s Administration Research Institute (BVARI).
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today it filed a Criminal Information in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg charging a Carlisle woman with theft of more than $500,000 in Social Security Administration benefits paid to Stock’s mother over the past 30 years.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today decried the proposed allocations for labor, health and education programs, which were opposed by all Democrats on the Appropriations Committee. DeLauro is the senior Democrat on the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas J. Cannon, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"), and Chief Michael Clancy of the Town of Newburgh Police Department announced ...
