News from October 2015
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., applauded action today taken by the U.S. House of Representatives to approve legislation that would lift the current ban on U.S. crude oil exports.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Manipulated accounting entries to hide his theft.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives will look to say #Yes2Energy and vote to lift the nearly 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. H.R. 702, sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), would #LiftTheBan on crude oil exports, lower prices at the pump, create jobs, and make America more energy independent and energy secure. Support has poured in from numerous organizations ahead of the vote and it’s time we make the current ban on crude oil a thing of the past.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Sioux City, Iowa - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa together with several federal and state law enforcement agency representatives will hold a press conference on October 13th to discuss the events leading to the shooting of a Sioux City police officer and the activities that followed to bring those involved in an attempt to obstruct justice and prevent the shooter’s capture.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: OVERLAND PARK, KS - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today wrote to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack regarding the lack of certainty and communication to farmers about commodity programs.
By State Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the Committee’s markup of a resolution supporting the right of the people of Ukraine to freely elect their government and determine their future (H.Res.348 ), and a resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the safety and security of Jewish communities in Europe (H.Res.354 )...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: OVERLAND PARK, KS - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today applauded an Appeals Court Ruling that halted implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s overreaching rule regarding the definition of “Waters of the U.S." pending further judicial review.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform unanimously passed H.R. 3231, the Federal Intern Protection Act, which was introduced by Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings to make it illegal to discriminate against or sexually harass unpaid interns in the federal government. The legislation is also cosponsored by Reps. Bobby Scott, Grace Meng, and Eleanor Holmes Norton.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Rosaire R. Gauthier, 39, of Hooksett, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, and 15 counts of distribution of a controlled...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a draft environmental assessment/initial study for a project to expand an existing groundwater recharge basin in Tulare County. The proposed project includes constructing and operating an 80-acre groundwater recharge basin, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: Defendant Made a Video Talking About Plans to Commit Murder.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to protecting America’s energy critical infrastructure, the Energy Department (DOE) today announced more than $34 million for two projects that will improve the protection of the U.S. electric grid and oil and natural gas infrastructure from cyber threats.The...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The United States House of Representatives today passed Rep. Joe Barton’s (R-TX) H.R. 702, bipartisan legislation that would #LiftTheBan on crude oil exports. The measure passed by a vote of 261 - 159. Studies have shown that lifting the antiquated ban on crude oil exports would lower...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public input on alternatives to help alleviate traffic and parking congestion in Arches and Canyonlands national parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE, La. - Western District of Louisiana U.S. Attorney’s Office staff members and other local law enforcement and community leaders met in neighborhoods throughout Caddo and Lafayette parishes Tuesday as part of their annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention events.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement today in response to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling granting a nationwide stay on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge last week sentenced a Bessemer man to 15 months of electronically monitored home detention as part of four years' probation for a kickback scheme he ran while working as a freight broker for a Shelby County company, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO - U.S. Border Patrol Supervisory Agent Martin Rene Duran was arrested yesterday and charged with using his official position to create bogus alerts in a border-security law enforcement database so that a lawful U.S. resident and frequent border crosser would be repeatedly detained by Customs and Border Protection officers, sometimes at gunpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today on a charge of deprivation of civil rights, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON (October 8, 2015) The National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks, are excited to announce the date for the 93rd annual National Christmas Tree Lighting on the Ellipse at President’s Park (White House). This year’s kick-off to the holiday season in our nation’s capital will be heldThursday, Dec. 3, 2015, at 5 p.m. Free tickets for the lighting ceremony will be awarded through an online lottery.
