News from September 2014
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today examined the Federal Communications Commission’s management and spending. The hearing continues the subcommittee’s oversight of the commission and follows the committee’s requests for documents regarding the commission’s workload and backlog.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today examined ways to create more jobs for minorities in the energy sector with a hearing on H.R. 4526, the 21st Century Energy Workforce Development Initiative Act of 2014. This legislation, introduced by subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) announced today that a 35-year-old native and citizen of Guatemala was charged on September 9 with illegal reentry into the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Enjoy upcoming Saturday evening programs through September at 7:00 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park. As the park celebrates its Centennial, the programs will honor the past and celebrate the present to inspire future generations.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank you for calling this important hearing on private employer defined benefit pension plan. This is an issue that deserves our much needed attention, and it is my hope that this hearing will serve as a catalyst for action. It is fitting that we are calling this hearing...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today made the following statement regarding Rhea Suh's transition from Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior to President of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Suh's nomination to become Interior's Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks will be withdrawn.
By State Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing titled “United States Strategy to Defeat the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, AR - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, has filed motions with the appropriate district courts to dismiss the federal indictments against Kenneth Wayne Thompson, age 23, of Bradford, Arkansas; Benjamin Cade Vardell, age 20, of Jonesboro, Arkansas;...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces an indictment charging John Robert Haldemann (30, Naples) with two counts of armed bank robbery. Each count carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in federal prison. The indictment also notifies Haldemann that the United States is seeking a money judgment in the amount of $12,308.00, the total proceeds of the armed bank robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today Michael Fijal, 61, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Reps. Darrell E. Issa and Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform respectively, issued the following statement after the National Football League (NFL) and the National Football League Players Association announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: CINCINNATI - Santonio Watkins, 28, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 72 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Thomas Mims, age 53, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to robbery and using a firearm during a robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “Cross Border Data Flows: Could Foreign Protectionism Hurt U.S. Jobs?" The hearing examined cross-border data flows - the transfer of data across international borders - ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “Cross Border Data Flows: Could Foreign Protectionism Hurt U.S. Jobs?" The hearing examined cross-border data flows - the transfer of data across international borders - ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Austin Portner, age 55, of Hagerstown, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for possessing child pornography and of having a prior sex offense conviction. Judge Bennett ordered that upon...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today examined the Federal Communications Commission’s management and spending. The hearing continues the subcommittee’s oversight of the commission and follows the committee’s requests for documents regarding the commission’s workload and backlog.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Dawn Nguyen, 25, of Greece, N.Y., who was convicted of knowingly making a false statement in connection with the purchase of firearms; selling and disposing of firearms to William Spengler, a known felon; and possession of firearms while being an unlawful user of marijuana, was sentenced to 96 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By State Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of the Syria “train and equip" amendment offered by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard “Buck" McKeon to the Continuing Resolution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two sentences for drug trafficking were handed down on Monday for cases originating in Bakersfield, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
