News from December 2015
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at a full Committee hearing on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and how it fuels Middle East turmoil...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today held a hearing on the agriculture industry’s role in combating global hunger.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, a bipartisan group of senators joined the effort to fix the serious, but solvable challenges facing the U.S. Postal Service. Sens. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) joined Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, as sponsors of the Improving Postal Operations, Service, and Transparency Act of 2015 (iPOST), which Sen. Carper introduced in September.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Farrell Bowman, 29, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Fruitland, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 74 months in prison for his involuntary manslaughter conviction. Bowman will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A MS-13 gang member from Somerset County, New Jersey, today admitted relaying instructions to murder government witnesses from incarcerated gang members, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and for illegally possessing several firearms.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved two bipartisan proposals aimed at improving access to wired and wireless broadband for all Americans. The subcommittee today advanced a legislative package to improve broadband infrastructure deployment and H.R. 1641, the Federal Spectrum Incentive Act.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee praised the House of Representatives for passing the Every Student Succeeds Act, the bipartisan legislation she worked on to fix No Child Left Behind. The legislation passed with overwhelming, bipartisan support and now moves to the Senate for approval.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, December 9, 2015, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Legislation to Improve Health Care and Treatment." The subcommittee will continue its efforts to advance critical legislation that will address shortcomings in current law and reauthorize an important nursing training program.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, December 9, 2015, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Legislation to Improve Health Care and Treatment." The subcommittee will continue its efforts to advance critical legislation that will address shortcomings in current law and reauthorize an important nursing training program.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved two bipartisan proposals aimed at improving access to wired and wireless broadband for all Americans. The subcommittee today advanced a legislative package to improve broadband infrastructure deployment and H.R. 1641, the Federal Spectrum Incentive Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today called for permanent reauthorization of the World Trade Center Health Program. Upton also outlined six permanent entitlement reforms totaling more than $4 billion to pay for permanent extension of the important program.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Salt Lake City-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced it is offering a public tour of the Axtell Contract Off-Range Corrals (facility) in Axtell, Utah, on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. The facility is one of two locations in Utah that provides care to wild horses and burros removed from the range.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today called for permanent reauthorization of the World Trade Center Health Program. Upton also outlined six permanent entitlement reforms totaling more than $4 billion to pay for permanent extension of the important program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that two women were sentenced in federal court today in Charleston, West Virginia, for passing counterfeit $100 bills. Nyteria Green, 36, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to three years in federal prison. O’wynn Rogers, 27, of Beckley, was sentenced to one year in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved two bipartisan proposals aimed at improving access to wired and wireless broadband for all Americans. The subcommittee today advanced a legislative package to improve broadband infrastructure deployment and H.R. 1641, the Federal Spectrum Incentive Act.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - at today’s hearing on global hunger.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Henry Lee Adams has sentenced Joe Eugene Loving (47, Texas) to five years and five months in federal prison for manufacturing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes, false representation of a Social Security number, and aggravated identity theft. As part of the sentence, the Court also ordered Loving to pay restitution to the businesses he had defrauded.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As world leaders gather in Paris to negotiate a global agreement on developing clean energy sources and preventing climate change, the Republican-led House of Representatives is preparing to vote later today on amendments to H.R. 8, a partisan energy bill that does nothing to address...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania woman was convicted today for her role in a long-running, large-scale scheme involving the fraudulent sale of telecommunications equipment belonging to a company she worked for as a consultant, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
