News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that James C. Riley, 44, of Kinmundy, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court in East St. Louis for the crime of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) Chairman Rob Portman (R-Ohio), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), House Ways and Means Committee...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the release of the new Conservation Reserve Program regulations as well as new conservation incentives for agriculture producers with working grass, range and pasture lands.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is hosting an informational meeting to explore volunteer interest in a new program in which volunteers and their dogs serve as “Bark Ranger" ambassadors to the National Lakeshore. Bark Ranger volunteers would walk beaches and trails with their...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Due to continued bear activity at both the Viking Lodge and the Caribou Creek Public Use Cabins along the Nabesna Road, the cabins are closed to public use effective immediately.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today began an investigation following the release of a video revealing the Planned Parenthood Senior Director of Medical Services discussing the sale of fetal body parts. The sale of fetal body parts for profit is illegal.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC) Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) Chairman Rob Portman (R-Ohio), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), House Ways and Means Committee...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: MINERAL, CA - July 18 and 19 visitors are invited to learn more about wildlife at Lassen Volcanic National Park in a weekend dedicated to studying the park’s birds and butterflies. Birds and butterflies are not only beautiful; they are also indicators of the health of Lassen’s resources and play an important role in scientific research.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, "Securing the Border: Understanding Threats and Strategies for the Maritime Border." Last week, Sen. Carper visited the U.S. Coast Guard Station Indian River Inlet in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that 18 New Haven residents were arrested today on federal heroin distribution charges.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: FAIRBANKS,Alaska: An Alaska Fire Service detection flight discovered the lightning-ignited Lockwood Fire on Wednesday afternoon, July 15, 2015.The fire is located northeast of Lockwood Hills, in a remote area of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.Fire managers conducting aerial reconnaissance...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is hosting two back-to-back events July 27-29, 2015, at the Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico: a Tribal Leader Forum on forming tribal utilities and an interactive workshop on developing community-scale renewable energy projects on tribal lands.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Ed Markey, D-Mass., today cheered passage of the Medicare Independence at Home Medical Practice Demonstration Improvement Act of 2015 by a voice vote, which extends the demonstration for two years. The bill was approved by the Senate on April 22 by voice vote. The legislation will now go to the President’s desk for signature.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Statement of Ranking Member Barbara Boxer
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today began an investigation following the release of a video revealing the Planned Parenthood Senior Director of Medical Services discussing the sale of fetal body parts. The sale of fetal body parts for profit is illegal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Jason Amodio (46) of Lexington, South Carolina was sentenced to eight months of home confinement and four years of probation. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson Jr. sentenced Amodio in federal court...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected four projects to receive funding through NETL’s Carbon Storage program. The program is working to develop and advance the effectiveness of onshore and offshore carbon storage technologies, reduce the challenges associated with implementation, and prepare them for widespread commercial deployment in the 2025-2035 time frame.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee wrapped up a series of eight border security hearings by focusing on the security of America’s maritime border. “Following this hearing and prior to our August recess, our committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) released a report outlining a bipartisan framework for the taxation of foreign earnings by U.S. companies. In response, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), who has spoken about the need for such reform, issued the following statement.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - At today’s Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources hearing on the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final rule for hydraulic fracturing operations on Federal and Indian lands, Subcommittee Ranking Member Alan Lowenthal, Full Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva and multiple witnesses rebutted fracking rule opponents’ misleading arguments and stressed that the rule would have no impact on states with stronger fracking standards.
