News from April 2015
By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement in recognition of Equal Pay Day...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Antonio Acosta, 31, of Hobbs, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 84 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced witnesses for the Committee’s hearing on opportunities and challenges for agriculture trade with Cuba.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing to examine a draft of the Ratepayer Protection Act. The draft legislation seeks to empower states to protect families and businesses from higher electricity rates and other harmful effects of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Obi Emelogu and Oloh Samuel have been sentenced for their involvement in a tax refund fraud scheme in which Emelogu filed false income tax returns and directed that the fraudulent refunds be deposited into bank accounts he and Samuel controlled.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, joined the Whistleblower Protection Caucus. The bipartisan caucus, chaired by Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), focuses its mission on raising awareness of the value and need to protect individuals who call attention to fraud, waste and misconduct.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today made a profound step toward reforming the decades-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) by reviewing a draft of the bipartisan TSCA Modernization Act. Building upon work that began last Congress, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 14, 2015 - Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans made the following opening statement at today's oversight hearing entitled "Proposed Federal Water Grabs and Their Potential Impacts on States, Water, and Power Users, and Landowners.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Frank Eugene Gemignani III pleaded guilty to failing to pay over employment taxes today, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Michael Rea, 26, of Winters, was sentenced today by United States District Judge John A. Mendez to 13 years and one month in prison for receiving child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service and the National Park Foundation recently launched "Find Your Park, " a public awareness and education campaign celebrating the milestone centennial anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016 and setting the stage for the next 100 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Fingerprints Also Link Defendant to Second Burglary in Area.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) have requested information about how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) responds to reports of neglect and abuse at Head Start centers.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz regarding the president’s recent determination that a separate repository is required for the disposal of high-level defense waste.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today made a profound step toward reforming the decades-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) by reviewing a draft of the bipartisan TSCA Modernization Act. Building upon work that began last Congress, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Sergio Garcia, 25, of Rexburg, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Garcia to forfeit $7,500 in proceeds from his crime. Garcia pleaded guilty to the charge on Jan. 28, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a white paper summarizing the findings of an internal report obtained by the Committee last night that was issued by the Office of Professional Responsibility within the...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz regarding the president’s recent determination that a separate repository is required for the disposal of high-level defense waste.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: If you're designing a new computer, you want it to solve problems as fast as possible. Just how fast is possible is an open question when it comes to quantum computers, but physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have narrowed the theoretical limits for where that "speed limit" is. The work implies that quantum processors will work more slowly than some research has suggested.*
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released a letter from the AFL-CIO that lays out the organization's serious concerns with S. 697, the Udall-Vitter toxic chemicals bill.
