News from November 2015
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Al Franken (D-MN), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Jack Reed (D-RI), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, California - Raúl Canchola Farías, 40, residente de Pacoima, ha sido sentenciado hoy por el Juez Federal Anthony W. Ishii a 11 años y tres meses de prisión por posesión con el intento de distribuir metanfetamina, anunció el Procurador de los Estados Unidos Benjamín B. Wagner.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Eleven defendants who were indicted in September for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in Wichita Falls, Texas, from approximately March 2014 to August 2015, pleaded guilty last week before U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor in federal court in Wichita Falls. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made today’s announcement.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, four key Democratic Members expressed serious concern about a provision in the Senate-approved highway bill being considered by the House Rules Committee that would divert money away from the Customs User Fee Account to help offset the cost of the highway bill. Ways and Means Committee...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Susan Collins (R-ME), Tim Scott (R-SC), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced a bipartisan resolution in the Senate designating the week of Nov. 2, 2015, National Apprenticeship Week. The resolution highlights that...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Washington - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, responded to President Obama’s announcement of support for The Fair Chance Act initiatives, a bipartisan piece of legislation sponsored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and by Johnson, designed to give formerly incarcerated individuals a fair chance at employment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ANTONIO WHITESIDE, of St. Louis County, Missouri, was sentenced to five years imprisonment on the federal charge stemming from Whiteside starting a fire inside the Ferguson Supermarket, Inc. on Nov. 24, 2014, the date St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch announced the grand jury decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, four key Democratic Members expressed serious concern about a provision in the Senate-approved highway bill being considered by the House Rules Committee that would divert money away from the Customs User Fee Account to help offset the cost of the highway bill. Ways and Means...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Gregory J. Kuczora (age: 55) of Elgin, Illinois, charging him with two counts of wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section1343.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The number of failed Obamacare CO-OPs grew to one dozen today as Michigan became the latest to announce it was closing. To date, 12 of the original 23 CO-OPs have closed, bringing the total cost to taxpayers at more than $1.23 billion. This Thursday, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on “Examining the Costly Failures of Obamacare’s CO-OP Insurance Loans."
By DOE Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today passed two resolutions, H.J. Res 71 and H.J. Res 72, disapproving of two final rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for new and existing power plants. The resolutions would provide for Congressional disapproval of each rule, and that the rules shall have no force or effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Six defendants have been sentenced to prison terms for their participation in a $4.7 million check cashing and identity theft scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced the indictment of a Simpson County, Kentucky resident on charges of making and possessing destructive devices, commonly known as Molotov cocktails.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today on the Senate floor spoke in favor of advancing The Federal Water Quality Protection Act, which would block the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) regulatory overreach on Waters of the United States (WOTUS).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: Felon Dropped Weapon While Fleeing the Police.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Volkswagen Group of America President and CEO Michael Horn requesting additional information about VW’s emissions cheating scandal. The letter follows Horn’s October testimony to the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two residents of Upshur County, West Virginia were sentenced in federal court today for manufacturing and possessing methamphetamine, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: #SubEnergyPower Chairman Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) was featured in The Hill talking about the administration’s destructive #CapAndTrade rules. The committee’s work to say #Yes2Energy continures this week with consideration of two resolutions that would protect affordable and reliable electricity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned indictments today charging Bertha Horton, 55, and Bennie Kyle, 60, both of Fairmont, West Virginia, with cocaine and prescription drug trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
