News from July 2015
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today discussed ways to promote broadband infrastructure investment in an environment with ever-growing demand for fixed and mobile broadband access.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after the Social Security and Medicare Trustees issued their annual reports on the financial status of the two programs...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved H.R. 511, the Tribal Labor Sovereignty Act of 2015. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), will prevent the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from exerting jurisdiction over tribal businesses operated on tribal lands.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK), House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Senate Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee Chairwoman Shelley Moore Capito...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today discussed ways to promote broadband infrastructure investment in an environment with ever-growing demand for fixed and mobile broadband access.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) and Ranking Member Marcia Fudge (D-OH) today introduced the Student Privacy Protection Act (H.R. 3157), bipartisan legislation to update student privacy protections under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy ...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote this afternoon on Rep. David McKinley’s (R-WV) H.R. 1734, the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015. The bipartisan legislation is the culmination of a multi-year, multi-Congress effort to improve options for...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Hensley Settlement Tours Cancelled For the Remainder of the Season.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Providence, Rhode Island man was indicted late yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Scranton, on the charge of possession with intent to distribute in excess of one kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - William M. Goode, 48, of Crestview, Florida, was sentenced today to 10.5 years in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervision, for attempting to entice a minor for sex and for receipt of child pornography. The sentence was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: 105 Individuals Indicted for Violating the RICO Act in Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that New York State Senator THOMAS W. LIBOUS was found guilty of making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI") following a seven-day trial in White Plains before the Hon. Vincent L. Briccetti, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Block Burner gang members arrested on illegal gun and narcotics charges after terrorizing the eastside of Indianapolis.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction today netted more than $70 million in revenues from the sale of 69 Federal leases in the States of New Mexico, Oklahoma...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A nine (9) count federal indictment was unsealed today in the District of Puerto Rico charging one hundred and five (105) defendants with racketeering, drug trafficking, drive-by shooting murders and related firearm offenses, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Johnny Lee Green Jr., 56, of Elkins, was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Department of Water Resources and the Federal Bureau of Reclamation announced today a 60-day extension of the public comment period for the joint Partially Recirculated Draft Environmental Impact Report (RDEIR)/Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement (SDEIS) on the Bay Delta Conservation Plan/California WaterFix.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today unanimously approved a draft of its long-awaited energy package, an effort to modernize our laws to reflect America’s energy abundance and take full advantage of our potential to be an energy superpower in the 21st century.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote this afternoon on Rep. David McKinley’s (R-WV) H.R. 1734, the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015. The bipartisan legislation is the culmination of a multi-year, multi-Congress effort to improve options for...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - ArtPlace America recently announced that the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association (AIANTA), on behalf of the tribal heritage project partnership, received a grant of $500,000 to further arts and culture at Desert View in Grand Canyon National Park. The grant will transform Desert View into a place to celebrate, share, and learn about inter-tribal cultural heritage.
