News from October 2015
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today released the following statement following the election of Congressman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wisconsin, to the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) has invited European members of the Transatlantic Legislators’ Dialogue to engage with members of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power next Thursday, November 5, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The event will be co-chaired by Chairman Jerzy Buzek of the European Parliament.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) has invited European members of the Transatlantic Legislators’ Dialogue to engage with members of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power next Thursday, November 5, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The event will be co-chaired by Chairman Jerzy Buzek of the European Parliament.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, woman today admitted evading taxes on income she generated by using her position as a Burlington Coat Factory vice president to approve payments to her shell recruitment company, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Having secured a commitment from House and Senate leadership to restore the federal crop insurance program in a year-end spending bill, U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., today announced his support for the Bipartisan Budget Act to ensure crop insurance remains the most important risk management tool for American producers.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation will temporarily use the spillway at Alcova Dam to make scheduled water releases to the North Platte River. This action is necessary to accommodate maintenance activities required by Western Area Power Administration in their local power facilities. The river flow below Gray Reef Dam will continue to be at about 500 cubic feet per second (cfs).
By State Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on elections in Côte d'Ivoire...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on House Republicans’ inadequate draft legislation to reauthorize the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act for only five years...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gary Nicholas Allen, 30, of Carlsbad, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -The National Park Service (NPS) has developed a vision for the future of the Moose-Wilson corridor in Grand Teton National Park. The Moose-Wilson Corridor Draft Comprehensive Management Plan/ Environmental Impact Statement (Draft Plan/EIS) is available for public review and comment at go.nps.gov/mwplan...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a markup for Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The subcommittee will consider Chairman Whitfield’s two resolutions, H.J. Res 71 and H.J. Res 72, disapproving of the two final rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for new and existing power plants.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), and House Space, Science and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced the September 11th VCF Reauthorization and U.S. Victims of State Sponsored...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: WATERBURY, 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 on Oct. 28, 2015, a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned a four-count indictment charging...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on House Republicans’ inadequate draft legislation to reauthorize the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act for only five years...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on House Republicans’ inadequate draft legislation to reauthorize the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act for only five years...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Vericare Management Inc., a behavioral health services provider, agreed today to pay more than $1 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by falsely billing federal health care programs for services that were not medically necessary, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Dollar General Corp. is headquartered at 100 Mission Ridge in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. The inspected store is located at 700 South 4th Street, Hamburg, Pa.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Former President Arrested Today in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Kirk Canfield, 54, of Wilson, NY, who was convicted of a violation of violation of the Bald and Gold Eagle Protection Act, was sentenced to six months probation and a $1,000 criminal fine by U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott. The defendant was also ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Bald Eagle Program.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today released the following statement following the election of Congressman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wisconsin, to the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives.
