News from October 2015
By DOE Newswire | Oct 31, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted Alaska’s energy priorities as she delivered the weekly Republican address to the nation. In her remarks, Murkowski sharply criticized the Obama administration’s actions to block energy production in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), the non-wilderness portion of ANWR, and offshore, while bringing attention to the barrage of destructive regulations coming from the EPA.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2015
News Release: In November 2015, Valley Forge National Historical Park will begin the sixth year of lethal removal of white-tailed deer as part of the White-tailed Deer Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (plan). Lethal removal activities will extend through March 2016. The plan addresses the browsing of...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 31, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The state of Arizona on Friday announced that its CO-OP would shutter in 2016, bringing the total to 11 out of the original Obamacare 23 CO-OPs that will be out of operation in 2016 at a total cost to taxpayers of $1.1 billion. On Thursday, November 5, 2015, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on “Examining the Costly Failures of Obamacare’s CO-OP Insurance Loans."
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The state of Arizona on Friday announced that its CO-OP would shutter in 2016, bringing the total to 11 out of the original Obamacare 23 CO-OPs that will be out of operation in 2016 at a total cost to taxpayers of $1.1 billion. On Thursday, November 5, 2015, 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 | Oct 31, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The state of Arizona on Friday announced that its CO-OP would shutter in 2016, bringing the total to 11 out of the original Obamacare 23 CO-OPs that will be out of operation in 2016 at a total cost to taxpayers of $1.1 billion. On Thursday, November 5, 2015, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on “Examining the Costly Failures of Obamacare’s CO-OP Insurance Loans."
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I congratulate all the law enforcement personnel who participated in Operation Safe Haven. Today, more than a year of hard work has paid off, and those responsible for perpetrating modern day slavery in the United States are being brought to justice.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 NEW LONDON, CONN. – A joint statement, officially establishing the Arctic Coast Guard Forum (ACGF), was signed today by leaders representing all eight coast guard agencies of the Arctic nations.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson today announced the appointment of 28 new members to the Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee (HSSTAC). The HSSTAC provides scientific and technical advice to the Secretary and senior department leadership on matters related to the expansion of technological capabilities across the homeland security enterprise.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 HAVANA – Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, the highest ranking Cuban-American in the Obama Administration, traveled to Cuba October 27-30 to meet with senior Cuban government officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice has reached 70 settlements involving 457 hospitals in 43 states for more than $250 million related to cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients in violation of Medicare coverage requirements, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced that a South Florida man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, Ohio, in connection with the prosecution of a nationwide prescription drug diversion scheme. Ricardo Alfredo Jurado, 59, of Miami Beach, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Timothy ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a federal district court has approved a supplemental consent decree between the United States, the Maryland Disability Law Center and the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC). The original consent decree contained remedies for HABC’s failure to provide ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Corderro Cody, 27, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to charges arising from his operation of a sex trafficking enterprise that compelled multiple victims to prostitute for the defendant’s profit. Cody pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: A former staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation was sentenced today to 38 months in prison for a wire fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant Director in Charge Paul M. Abbate of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Today, a man was convicted of three counts of murder in Indian country after a week-long jury trial, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Mark F. Green of the Eastern District of Oklahoma. David Brian Magnan, 53, was convicted ...
By Fed Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Five federal agencies have issued a final rule to establish capital and margin requirements for swap dealers, major swap participants, security-based swap dealers, and major security-based swap participants regulated by one of the agencies ("covered swap entities"), as required by the Dodd-Frank Act.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk issued the following statement regarding discussions on October 26 in Kyiv to accelerate economic reform and increase U.S.-Ukrainian bilateral trade and investment.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today released a report highlighting the potential benefits of the recently completed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) for Florida businesses and communities. The TPP will boost U.S. and local economic growth, support American jobs, expand investment opportunities, and increase Florida exports to some of the world’s fastest growing markets.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 30, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Oct. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 30, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Oct. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
