News from April 2015
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) released today, for public review, the Seashore plan which reviews wildlife protection buffers for public access.This environmental assessment (EA), prepared in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, will be open for review and comment for 15 days from April 29 -May 14, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released over 1,400 submissions from stakeholders on how to best to overhaul the nation’s broken tax code. In March, the Committee sought input from the public in an effort to provide additional data...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: The study, published in Environmental Science and Policy offsite link, assesses reports and peer-reviewed studies on the strengths and weaknesses of using built infrastructure, such as seawalls or dikes, natural infrastructure, or approaches which combine both. The study focuses on how these approaches help coastal communities reduce their risk of flooding and erosion, as well as additional benefits, and the tradeoffs when decision makers choose one type over another.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced more than $4 million in projects the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will implement to reduce the threat of rangeland fire and protect sagebrush habitat in the Great Basin region. The projects in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and Oregon will support the Interior...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Trade Agreement Would Break Down Barriers for American Exports.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - Sixteen members and associates of a violent, drug trafficking street gang were recently indicted on federal drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton sentenced William Daniel Thompson (67) today to 16 years in federal prison for attempting to persuade, induce, and entice two minors to engage in illicit sexual conduct. He pleaded guilty on Dec. 24, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Olutoyin Ogunlade, 41, of Brooklyn, New York, a U.S. citizen and one of eighteen defendants indicted in a nine-count federal indictment filed in the Southern District of Mississippi, pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Gonzales Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva released the following statement ahead of tomorrow’s Committee consideration of amendments to H.R. 1335, the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act. The Republican bill would weaken the successful Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After nearly a year of listening to patients, innovators, researchers, providers, consumers, and regulators, bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have released a discussion draft marking continued progress in the 21st Century Cures initiative. On Thursday, exactly one year...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today voted to approve H.R. 2045, the Targeting Rogue and Opaque Letters (TROL) Act, by a vote of 30 to 22. Authored by Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), the TROL Act is a balanced and targeted solution to help stop the practice of abusive patent demand letters while protecting the rights of legitimate patent holders to protect their intellectual property.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After nearly a year of listening to patients, innovators, researchers, providers, consumers, and regulators, bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have released a discussion draft marking continued progress in the 21st Century Cures initiative. On Thursday, exactly one year...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: 2016 mark: $76.057 billion. 2016 OCO: $532 million. 2015 Enacted: $71.808 billion. 2015 OCO: $221 million. President's Request: $78.785 billion. MILITARY CONSTRUCTION: $7.151 billion, an increase of $593 million above the FY 2015 enacted level and $1.286 billion below the President’s request, is provided...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: Contractors working at Saint Croix Island International Historic Site in Red Beach are nearing completion of staff housing located on the second floor of the ranger station. "Construction began slowly last November, but we're rounding third and heading for home," said Meg Scheid, Site Manager of the National Park Service facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two men have been ordered to federal prison following their roles in a large-scale drug-trafficking conspiracy, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Guillermo Herrera, 55, and Hector...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: I want to congratulate Chairman Diaz-Balart on completing his first bill as the Chairman of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee. He has been open and accessible throughout this process and receptive to concerns that subcommittee Members have raised. It has been a pleasure working with him.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today voted to approve H.R. 2042, the Ratepayer Protection Act, by a vote of 28 to 22. The bipartisan legislation, introduced by Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Rep. Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) today sent a letter to the...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), today held a hearing to discuss ways to further strengthen the multiemployer pension system. The hearing, entitled, “Examining Reforms to Modernize the Multiemployer Pension System," follows a bipartisan proposal ...
