News from February 2015
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, introduced the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act (H.R. 757), legislation that strengthens U.S. sanctions against North Korea. Similar legislation passed the House last year, but was not acted on by the Senate.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. February 12: High Performance Enclosure Strategies, Part I: Unvented Roof Systems and Innovative Advanced Framing Strategies. Webinar Sponsor: Building America. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled "High Performance Enclosure Strategies, Part I: Unvented Roof Systems...
By EPA 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: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that Gillian A. Gallardo, age 29, stationed on board Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on February 4, 2015, with two counts of theft of government...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Michael Bogoslavski, age 33, of Cheverly, Maryland, was charged by complaint with transmitting in interstate commerce a communication containing a threat to injure another person. The complaint was filed on Feb. 3, 2015, and unsealed yesterday. A detention hearing was held late yesterday afternoon and Bogoslavski was ordered to be detained pending trial.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, took to the Senate floor to urge his colleagues in the Senate to quickly pass a clean, full fiscal-year 2015 appropriation bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
By DOE 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 DOE 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 Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today released a stunning new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office entitled, “Mental Health: HHS Leadership Needed to Coordinate Federal Efforts Related...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Abraham Cabrera-Bedolla, 29, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on February 5, 2015, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Cabrera-Bedolla was arrested in Jackson, Wyoming. He received six months imprisonment, was...
By EPA 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: 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: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Dennis James Harper Jr., 51, of Pine Hill, Alabama, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison for failing to register as a sex offender. Harper was also sentenced to five years of supervision by the United States Probation Office upon his release from custody.
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: A Parkland man was sentenced to 32 months imprisonment for conspiring to traffic in counterfeit Xanax and illegally distributing steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Departamento de Justicia. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of California. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Jueves, 5 de febrero de 2015. 40 acusados de delitos federales por armas de fuego en los condados de Fresno, Tulare y Madera en el 2013; sentenciados a prisión federal en el 2013. SACRAMENTO, Calif.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing entitled “U.S. Secret Service: Identifying Steps to Restore the Protective Agency" on Thursday, February 12 at 10 a.m. The hearing will focus on recent recommendations made to the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) by an independent panel appointed by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two former residents of Danbury were sentenced yesterday in Hartford federal court for participating...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is offering a series of regional interactive workshops designed to provide Alaska Native leaders and their staffs with the information and guidance needed to navigate the complexities of developing and implementing energy projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Darrick Donnell Belcher, 36, of Marion, was sentenced in federal court for his participation in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine. Belcher pled guilty to the charge in October of 2014.
