News from February 2015
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) unveiled the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment (CARE) Act -a legislative plan that repeals Obamacare and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: One-Time Associate Of “West Side Mobb" Gang Continued Criminal Conduct In Jail.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) unveiled the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment (CARE) Act -a legislative plan that repeals Obamacare and...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), yesterday approved four bills to help patients and local communities. These bills will improve transparency, reduce regulatory burdens, provide clarity, and reduce costs for patients and families across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Silk Road Was Used By More Than 100,000 Users To Buy And Sell Hundreds Of Kilograms Of Illegal Drugs And Other Unlawful Goods And Services.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a Committee hearing Wednesday, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlighted the economic benefits of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action to Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Over the past five years, the dollar value of new subprime loans has doubled. Those loans are offered at very high interest rates to low-income borrowers, some of whom have no source of income and are at almost immediate risk of delinquency and default. The securitization of those loans - repackaging...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: “The unprecedented baseline data in this new report will be vital for coastal managers as they look at degrading conditions in mussel and oyster population," said Dennis Apeti, the report’s lead author and an oceanographer with the National Ocean Service’s National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science. “Environmental stressors, including unforeseen natural and human influenced events and climate change, continue to impact our coastal resources."
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Whether they're analyzing fingerprints at a murder scene or digital clues on a criminal's cell phone, forensic laboratories use research, standards and data from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to obtain the most accurate results possible.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-The first-ever Anacostia River Festival will celebrate the history, ecology and communities along the banks of the Anacostia River. The 11th Street Bridge Park and the National Park Service present the event, which will offer free kayaking and canoeing, musical performances, fishing and water...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a HELP Committee hearing: Who’s the Boss? The “Joint Employer" Standard and Business Ownership. In her opening statement, Murray criticized Republicans for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 57-year-old Rialto, CA woman living in Port Arthur, Texas has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding reports that Dr. Margaret Hamburg, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is stepping down.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Over the past five years, the dollar value of new subprime loans has doubled. Those loans are offered at very high interest rates to low-income borrowers, some of whom have no source of income and are at almost immediate risk of delinquency and default. The securitization of those loans - repackaging...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: “During Dr. Hamburg’s tenure over the last six years, she has been a tireless public servant focused on protecting the public health and facilitating innovation. Because of her efforts, we have made significant progress towards modernizing the food safety system, implementing the Tobacco Control Act, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Nine men who were arrested this past weekend during a multi-agency investigation into online solicitation now face federal charges, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - A prescribed fire is planned between February 10 and 12 in the Pine Creek drainage at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. The prescribed fire is the final phase of a fuel reduction project to protect a unique ponderosa pine stand from wildland fire by reducing fuel build-up in the understory. The Pine Creek trail will be temporarily inaccessible to allow for public and firefighter safety during the prescribed fire.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal jury found an Egyptian national guilty of refusing to leave the country twice after being ordered to depart.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ALEX V. EKDESHMAN, the Chief Executive Officer of Paramount Management, LLC, pleaded guilty today to commodities fraud. EKDESHMAN ran a fraudulent scheme in which he solicited over $1.5 million dollars...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - On February 4, 2015, U.S. Magistrate Judge Timothy J. Sullivan sentenced Larry Eugene Harding, age 57, of Friendsville, Maryland, and Wallace A. Harward, age 58, of Forest Hill, Maryland, to pay a fine and restitution totaling $8,000 and $5,000, respectively, after the defendants...
