News from June 2015
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management, chaired by U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), will hold a hearing next week to examine the issue of underutilized and vacant federal properties, costs to the taxpayer, challenges to selling or disposing of unneeded real property, and methods by which the federal government can reduce its space footprint and save taxpayer dollars by addressing those challenges.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Oversight Failures Behind the Radiological Incident at DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant." The hearing is part of the committee’s longstanding efforts to improve safety at some of the nation’s most critical nuclear sites.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites children in grades 4 -8 to participate in the park's sixth annual summer day camp, entitled A Call to Arms: Civil War Day Camp. This year the park will conduct two camps, each for different grade levels. The first camp, to...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today commented on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia’s decision in NAB v FCC.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Canton Drop Forge. Investigation site: 4575 Southway SW, Canton, Ohio. Date investigation initiated and what prompted inspection: On April 23, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Cleveland office initiated an inspection at Canton Drop Forge. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - An Edinburg man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of Heroin, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jesus Rodriguez Barrientes, 49, pleaded guilty Sept. 5, 2012. Also sentenced today were Elizabeth Michele Barrientes, 40, of Edinburg, and Fermin Martinez-Luna, 43, of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Oversight Failures Behind the Radiological Incident at DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant." The hearing is part of the committee’s longstanding efforts to improve safety at some of the nation’s most critical nuclear sites.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Oversight Failures Behind the Radiological Incident at DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant." The hearing is part of the committee’s longstanding efforts to improve safety at some of the nation’s most critical nuclear sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: First Criminal Sentence in the United States For.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of June 15.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement following votes on the House floor on TPA, TAA and the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act (“the customs bill")...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Robert Sanders, a/k/a “Man," age 28, of Baltimore, today to 11 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine base (crack), in connection with his membership in a group known as “Coppin Court" which operated in the Cherry Hill section of Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former New England Patriots player and a former bank executive were arrested this morning on securities fraud charges in connection with an alleged Ponzi scheme involving fraudulent loans to professional athletes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina announced today that a Tracie Yvette Clay, 46, was sentenced on June 11, 2015, for Medicaid fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent letters to the Centers for Disease Control...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU -- Mitchell “Kimo" Keawe, age 50, pled guilty today in federal court to embezzling money from the Honolulu Centers for Independent Living (HCIL), a defunct non-profit organization which operated in Hawaii and Guam and which Keawe previously headed as its executive director. HCIL’s mission was to help disabled persons learn to live independently.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing on “EPA’s Proposed Ozone Rule." The EPA has proposed lowering the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone from 75 parts per billion (ppb) to a level between...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: Last week I had the chance to visit the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, also known by its Mohawk name, Akwesasne. The Mohawk are one of the original Five Nations of the Iroquois, historically based in present-day New York and known as the "Keepers of the Eastern Door." Located in northeast New York along the U.S.-Canadian border, the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has a diverse membership of more than 10,000 people who live and work on both sides of the border.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: LONDON - A federal judge sentenced two men from Ashland, Ky., today for conspiring to commit money laundering, by stripping stolen motorcycles of their original identifying marks, rebuilding and retitling them for innocent buyers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to Trade Promotion Authority and Trade Adjustment Assistance...
