News from November 2015
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act - companion legislation to H.R. 2853, a bill introduced by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Vice Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) and Ranking Minority...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Bastrop resident was sentenced to 27 months in prison for not updating his sex offender registration.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology has scheduled a markup on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a legislative package to improve broadband infrastructure and H.R. 1641, the Federal Spectrum Incentive Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a man from Monroe was sentenced 60 months in prison for possessing a revolver after having been convicted of felonies.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today commending the Obama administration on the launch of Mission Innovation, which represents a landmark commitment by 20 countries and a group of 28 influential investors to accelerate public and private global clean energy innovation over the next five years...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Eric Lonergan, 23, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pleaded guilty in New Haven federal court to...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act - companion legislation to H.R. 2853, a bill introduced by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Vice Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) and Ranking Minority...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the EPA issuing its final rule setting out the long-delayed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requirements for the years 2014 through 2016. In the rule, EPA acknowledged some of the challenges with adding ethanol and other renewable fuels to the nation’s transportation fuel supply, and for this reason the agency reduced the required volumes below those originally set out by law in 2007.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rock Creek Park Superintendent Tara Morrison announced today that the upcoming window of action for deer reduction in the park will be Dec. 1, 2015 through March 31, 2016. This is part of the continued implementation of the Rock Creek Park White- tailed Deer Management Plan. Temporary...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today commending the Obama administration on the launch of Mission Innovation, which represents a landmark commitment by 20 countries and a group of 28 influential investors to accelerate public and private global clean energy innovation over the next five years...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement regarding EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester woman was arrested late Friday afternoon for being in possession of an M-4 assault rifle that was stolen from a Worcester armory on Nov. 14, 2015, and for making false statements to federal agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 61-year-old man has been convicted of one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Dennis Ray Frank, of Edcouch, admitted he engaged in inappropriate conversations with a minor female and received a sexually graphic image via email.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Mario B. Taylor, 42, of Washington Park, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court on Nov. 19, 2015, to 117 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, a $750 fine, and a $100 special assessment, for unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., store owner was sentenced Monday to 57 months in federal prison for food stamp fraud, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. He also was ordered to pay approximately $227,000 in restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Dodaro: Political appointees at Executive Branch departments and agencies sometimes seek positions as career government employees. Unlike political appointments, these positions do not end at the conclusion of a presidential administration. Such changes in employment status - whereby an individual...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was sentenced Monday to 90 months in federal prison for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: ASHLAND - An Ashland, Ky., couple, previously convicted of devising a scheme to defraud the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Kentucky Medicaid Program, out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefit payments, has been sentenced to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Raul Mendoza, 51, of Denver, Colorado was sentenced on Nov. 20, 2015 by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 48 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, the United States Attorney John Walsh announced, along with Special Agents in Charge of...
