News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that William A. Moore, 29, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court in East St. Louis for the crime of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on “Rebuilding the Chemical Safety Board: Finding a Solution to the CSB’s Governance and Management Challenges, " Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) joined with fellow Members in calling on CSB Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Good morning. This is the first markup of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: A man who illegally re-entered the United States from Mexico was sentenced Feb. 27, 2015, to 7 months in in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department has awarded the Virginia Polytechnic and State University Advanced Research Institute nearly $2 million to continue research and development of its Building Energy Management Open Source Software (BEMOSS) for small and medium-sized commercial buildings. Currently, small and medium sized buildings make up about 95% of commercial buildings, and represent about 50% of the floor space in this sector.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 4, 2015 - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) today sent a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Dan Ashe, requesting information supporting any final listing determination for the northern long-eared bat (NLEB) under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). A final listing decision for the species is expected to be made by April 2, 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing on “The 21st Century Electricity Challenge: Ensuring a Secure, Reliable and Modern Electricity System." A strong electricity system is critical to our economic and national security, and today’s hearing focused on efforts to modernize the nation’s electric grid to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Beckley man was sentenced for a federal drug charge. Jason Calendar, 40, was sentenced to a four-month term of imprisonment, followed by a three-year term of supervised release. Calendar previously pled guilty in November of 2014, admitted that he sold heroin to a person who was cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on Laurel Terrace in Beckley.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Warwick, New York, man is charged with coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and traveling from New York to Passaic County, New Jersey, to have sexual intercourse with another minor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Neil Thomas, a/k/a “Menace", was convicted of conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: FRANKFORT - A central Kentucky oil operator has admitted to his role in a scheme that defrauded investors nationwide out of millions of dollars.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved a bipartisan bill that improves the Nation’s passenger rail system and reforms Amtrak by reducing costs, creating greater accountability and transparency, leveraging private sector resources, and accelerating rail project delivery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: A Wisconsin man pled guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute methamphetamine Feb. 27, 2015, in federal court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today heard from FCC Managing Director Jon Wilkins as members began their review of the Federal Communications Commission’s $530 million Fiscal Year 2016 budget request. As part of the committee’s...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairmen John Kline (R-MN), Paul Ryan (R-WI), and Fred Upton (R-MI) responded to today’s Supreme Court oral arguments in the King v. Burwell case. The chairmen, who attended this morning’s oral arguments, are leading the House Republican working group to develop a plan to replace the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: (PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that George Noonan -, 51, of Portland, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 176 months in prison and eight years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and distribution of cocaine. Noonan pleadedguilty on Nov. 19, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Bastrop woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday, to filing false tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: As Chairmen of the Senate Committee on Finance and House Committee on Ways and Means, we have the obligation to conduct oversight of the administration of the Internal Revenue Code. This includes compliance with IRC §6103, which establishes rules governing the use of confidential...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions held a legislative hearing today to examine H.J. Res 29, a measure to block the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) unprecedented re-write of union election procedures. In December 2014, the NLRB finalized its ambush election rule, which ...
