News from July 2015
By USDA Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman, and thank you to this panel of witnesses for being here.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, which were signed into law on July 30, 1965.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Bipartisan bill will improve programs to increase awareness, prevention, and early identification of mental health conditions
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - Two dozen defendants are facing federal drug charges after a two-and-a-half-year investigation uncovered their roles in trafficking wholesale amounts of cocaine and heroin and distributing it in the Chicago area and Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Raymond Antoine Scott, Jr., 39, of Lapwai, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 288 months in prison for second degree murder in the death of William Reich on the Nez Perce Reservation, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Scott to serve five years of supervised release. Scott pleaded guilty to the charge on May 4, 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved a bipartisan bill that could help save millions of dollars by curbing erroneous payments to deceased individuals. The Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act (S.1073 ) was introduced by committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Honduran national pleaded guilty Tuesday to re-entering the country after having been previously deported for committing an aggravated felony.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals en banc ruling reversing an earlier decision exempting the Tongass National Forest from the national inventoried roadless rule. The ruling means the roadless rule will continue to restrict access to 9.5 million acres of the Tongass - an area equal to the size of New Jersey.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Battlefield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy that distributed thousands of pounds of marijuana in southwest Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: EL PASO - DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A Member of Congress and four of his associates were indicted today for their roles in a racketeering conspiracy involving several schemes that were intended to further the political and financial interests of the defendants and others by, among other tactics, misappropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars of federal, charitable and campaign funds.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine ISIS’s violence against women. The hearing is entitled, “Women Under ISIS Rule: From Brutality to Recruitment." This hearing is the first in a series the Committee will hold to examine the challenges facing women and girls around the globe.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A convicted sex offender who had failed to register with the State of Nevada and was caught with hundreds of images and videos of child pornography on his computers, has been sentenced to 17½ years in prison for his guilty plea to receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden, for the District of Nevada.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: AGOURA, Calif. - The National Park Service will co-host the third annual Summer Star Festival from 7:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 8 at Paramount Ranch in Agoura.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Patchogue, New York -Fire Island National Seashore continues its year-long 50th anniversary celebration with a special panel discussion and exhibition exploring the citizen's campaign to establish a national seashore in New York.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Yellowstone National Park, in coordination with partner agencies Montana Fish, Wildlife &Parks, Wyoming Game &Fish Department, and the US Forest Service, has approved a project to remove nonnative brook trout from Soda Butte Creek and reintroduce Yellowstone cutthroat trout into the stream as part of continued efforts to restore Yellowstone's native fish population.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Bobby Joe Hampton, age 28 of Texarkana, was found guilty of being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm following a two day jury trial in Texarkana. The Honorable Judge Susan O. Hickey presided over the trial in the United States District Court in Texarkana. Hampton was previously indicted on the charge by a federal grand jury on March 19, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today bolstered its bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess by advancing six bills to strengthen public health, children’s health, and promote American jobs and manufacturing. Today’s vote marked the eighth full committee mark up this Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: On July 24, 2015, Presner Telusme, of West Palm Beach, was sentenced to 15 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra, following his guilty plea to being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g) and 924(e).
