News from December 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), along with the Committee’s Democratic members, tomorrow will continue “Trading Views: Real Debates on Key Issues in TPP " with a session focusing on access to medicines in TPP. The Committee’s Democratic trade staff have prepared an issue analysis paper [PDF here] that will be distributed at the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Santa Barbara-area physician who wrote numerous prescriptions for powerful painkillers for “patients" - many of whom were drug addicts, and some of whom died from drug overdoses - was sentenced today to 327 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two Fresno residents, Daniel Miranda, 26, and Roberto Martinez Jr., 34, were sentenced today for conspiring to commit mail fraud, bank fraud, and wire fraud, and for aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Miranda was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to seven years and 10 months in prison, and Martinez was sentenced to three years in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: “This bill passed the Senate over the summer with broad, bipartisan support (78-20) - and for good reason.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Debra Mills, Park Ranger at Catoctin Mountain Park received the National Capital Region's Freeman Tilden Award for Interpretive Excellence at the National Association for Interpretation Annual Conference in Virginia Beach, VA. Named after Freeman Tilden, whose writings and teaching improved the quality...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: Voyageurs National Park recently launched a special history website that share stories, photographs, and maps of the region from the 1880s to 1927.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Riverhead, N.Y. - Natural Resources Committee Republicans took their climate denial show on the road today for the benefit of freshman Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.). At a just-concluded field hearing in Zeldin’s eastern Long Island district, Republicans and their invited witnesses criticized the National...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued this statement Sunday following President Obama’s address on the threat of terrorism and the fight against ISIS...
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement tonight after President Obama’s address on the threats posed by ISIS...
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement regarding the President’s address on American efforts to combat terrorism...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement following the President's Sunday night address to the nation on keeping the American people safe...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: A one-count indictment was unsealed yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco against Daniel William Aston and his company, Trod Ltd. (doing business as Buy 4 Less, Buy For Less, and Buy-For-Less-Online), a U.K. company headquartered in Birmingham, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Michael Daniel Rubens, 31, formerly of Tallahassee, Florida, pleaded guilty yesterday to cyberstalking, unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft. The guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher P. Canova of the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Today, the Justice Department and the Republic of Ecuador established a formal partnership to fight employment discrimination based on citizenship, immigration status and national origin. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, and Ecuadorean Ambassador ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Boston returned an indictment yesterday, which was unsealed today, charging two Massachusetts residents with conspiracy to defraud the United States, theft of government property, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday issued a final rule providing information about how to apply the Board's revised capital framework issued in June 2013 to depository institution holding companies that are not organized as traditional stock corporations.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced the designation of the chairs and deputy chairs of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks for 2016.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker delivered the opening remarks at a meeting of the President’s Export Council (PEC). The PEC serves as the principal national advisory committee on international trade and meets regularly to discuss new recommendations for resolving trade-related challenges among the business, industrial, agricultural, labor and government sectors.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today released the following statement on the employment situation in November. Today’s report shows that the economy added 211,000 jobs last month, and that the unemployment rate remains at 5.0 percent.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez issued the following statement about the November 2015 Employment Situation report released today: "With the addition of 211,000 jobs in November, the economy continues to recover at a steady clip. It was the 69th consecutive month of private sector ...
