News from April 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) today sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen asking for the agency to clarify the tax status of organizations known as “worker centers". The letter...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary Catherine Baumgarten, who is handling the case, stated that according to the indictment, Weishan and Kazmark obtained prescription medications Reed in Salamanca, NY. In exchange for a cut of the prescriptions, the defendants picked up the drugs, and shipped the partial scripts...
By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding Senate Foreign Relations Committee passage of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Six individuals from Detroit, Michigan charged with kidnapping two Indianapolis minors in retaliation for a drug rip off.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Blair Thomas, Jr., 29, of East Lansdowne, PA, was convicted today of a bank robbery in Springfield, PA, the attempted armed robberies of postal employees in Yeadon and Darby, PA, and with being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Wright Brothers National Memorial will be joining national park sites across the country in celebrating the first weekend of National Park Week by waiving admission fees on Saturday and Sunday, April 18 &19, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Somerset County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months in prison and five years’ supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced two critical pieces of bipartisan legislation protecting jobs and the environment.
By State Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine Russia’s use of media to destabilize Ukraine, Eastern Europe and beyond, and the U.S. government’s inability to respond effectively. The hearing is entitled “Confronting Russia’s Weaponization of Information.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on charges of Deprivation of Civil Rights and Falsification of a Document, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, after listening to testimony during yesterday’s House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on “DOJ IG: Handling of Sexual Harassment and Misconduct Allegations, " Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) joined with fellow committee Members in expressing no confidence in DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced two critical pieces of bipartisan legislation protecting jobs and the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) issued statements strongly opposing efforts by Republicans to overturn anti-discrimination bills that protect workplace equality, reproductive choice, and educational equality in the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: In El Paso this afternoon, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging 53-year-old Victor Manuel Solis, a legal permanent resident living in Lancaster, CA, with making a false statement to El Paso FBI agents concerning an ongoing investigation and search for his fugitive son, former Los Angeles...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. -MARY ONTIVEROS, TRAINING SPECIALIST/OUTREACH COORDINATOR, 928-567-5276x228. Local Teachers Sought for its Summer 2015 Teacher-Ranger-Teacher Program. Montezuma Castle/Tuzigoot National Monument is pleased to announce an opportunity for two local teachers to infuse their...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., Western District of New York, announced today that Dr. Albert R. Cowie, 36, of Amherst, NY, was arrested this morning and charged by criminal complaint...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 1770, the Data Security and Breach Notification Act, by a vote of 29 to 20. The bill provides a much-needed solution to address the growing problem of cyber crimes, establishing a nationwide safety regime for data protection and breach notification. Learn more about the bill HERE.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: National Park Week 2015 Encourages Everyone to "Find Your Park".
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Weekend Events at Fort Union Trading Post NHS to Celebrate National Park Week.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: As part of the Administration’s effort to cut energy waste in the nation’s buildings, the Energy Department will recognize San Antonio area partners today for their leadership in advancing energy efficiency. Through the Better Buildings Challenge, the San Antonio Housing Authority (SAHA) and Macy’s have...
