News published on Federal Newswire in February 2015

By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2015

News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, March 3, 2015, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Understanding the Cyber Threat and Implications for the 21st Century Economy."

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON- On Thursday, February 26th, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will receive an update from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) as well as the Deputy Inspector General for Investigations on their ongoing efforts to recover former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Exempt Organizations Unit Director Lois Lerner’s missing emails.

By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today released a discussion draft of legislation to extend the critically important State Children’s Health Insurance...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015

News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and charge by a federal complaint of Dontreaun Alexander (24, Sanford) with interference of interstate commerce by robbery. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today released a discussion draft of legislation to extend the critically important State Children’s Health Insurance...

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., delivered the following statement today at a Finance Committee hearing on tax reform...

By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2015

News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) invites the public to comment on proposals it has submitted for the 2015 Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Recreation Proposal. The proposals are available on the internet at www.ohv.parks.ca.gov for review and comment March 3 through April 6, 2015.

By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2015

News Release: “I applaud the President for rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline legislation. The American public understands that the environmental risks of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline-for our drinking water, land, and climate-far outweigh any perceived benefit of its construction. Congress has wasted enough...

By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2015

News Release: (Former Commissioner, U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission).

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate Republican leaders today sent a letter to President Obama regarding the administration’s proposed cuts to the Medicare Advantage program. The administration has repeatedly threatened the popular Medicare Advantage program, leading to higher costs and fewer choices for...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015

News Release: BOSTON - Alberto Correa-Martinez, 26, of Springfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine, distribution of heroin, and three counts of distribution of cocaine. U.S. District Judge Timothy S. Hillman scheduled sentencing for June 17, 2015.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015

News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Michael J. Ronga (43, Cape Coral) with deprivation of civil rights and obstruction of justice. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for the civil rights charge and up to 20 years in federal prison for the obstruction of justice charge.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015

News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Warren Dominique McDaniel, age 28, of Gaston, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court. McDaniel was sentenced to 105 months imprisonment, which was the high end of the advisory guidelines range of 84 to 105 ...

By Homeland Newswire | Feb 23, 2015

News Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, and Congresswoman Nita Lowey (NY-17), Ranking Democrat on the full Appropriations Committee, today announced united support of all 188 voting Democrats for their bill H.R. 861, a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that does not include poison pill riders regarding the President’s executive actions on immigration.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $20 million is being made available to improve wildlife habitat and enhance public access for recreational opportunities on privately held and operated farm, ranch and forest lands. Funding is available to state and tribal governments through the Voluntary Public Access and Habitat Incentive Program (VPA-HIP), authorized in the 2014 Farm Bill.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015

News Release: A North Carolina resident was arrested today for allegedly making a fraudulent claim on the fund set up to compensate victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015

News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement on the departure of U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins: “As United States Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, Anne Tompkins has pursued the cause of justice with passion, with integrity, and with results,” said Attorney General Holder. ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015

News Release: Two South Florida medical doctors and their wives have agreed to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act when their wives accepted sham marketer salaries in exchange for their husbands’ referrals to a home health care company called A Plus Home Health Care Inc., the Justice Department ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015

News Release: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, Acting U.S Attorney Stephanie Yonekura of the Central District of California and Assistant Director in Charge David Bowdich of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office announced today that two men with ties to the Inland Empire region of California were each sentenced today to 300 months in federal prison for participating in plots to provide material support to terrorists and to kill American personnel.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 23, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON — Workers in legal, same-sex marriages, regardless of where they live, will now have the same rights as those in opposite-sex marriages to federal job-protected leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act to care for a spouse with a serious health condition. The U.S. Labor Department announced ...