News from October 2015
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Price, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Price Field Office is hosting a public learning session to provide information about the final greater sage-grouse conservation plan for Utah public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas S. Duszkiewicz, who handled the case, stated that between January and December 2011, the defendant sold crack cocaine on multiple occasions to a confidential informant working for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). On Dec. 1, 2011, Weston sold crack cocaine to a confidential source working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Agriculture Committee Chairmen Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Rep. K. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, and Ranking Members Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., made the following statements on the budget deal.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Donald Dale Smith, age 67, of Fort Collins, Colorado, pled guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty to two counts of willful failure to file a tax return, United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne announced. Judge Hegarty is scheduled to sentence Smith on Jan. 19, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Smith was charged by an Information in Denver on April 8, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- On Friday October 23rd, bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy asking the agency to investigate the safety of recycled rubber “crumbs" used in synthetic turf fields. NBC News reported on the Energy and Commerce...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Committee on the Judiciary reported H.R. 2834, a bill to ostensibly codify existing environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act, as a single title in the U.S. Code. While the bill is supposed to be purely technical in nature, H.R. 2834 goes beyond that and makes serious changes to the Clean Air Act, which falls squarely within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: DNA and Other Evidence Linked Defendant to Crimes.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, November 5, 2015, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Costly Failures of Obamacare’s CO-OP Insurance...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the filing of a Republican impeachment resolution against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS E. RIVERA, also known as “Bebe," 34, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), have scheduled a joint hearing for Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the EU Safe Harbor Decision and Impacts for Transatlantic Data Flows."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that five current and former executives, and one employee, of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate Tribe’s Big Coulee District were indicted by a federal grand jury on October 6, 2015. The charges include Conspiracy to Commit Embezzlement from an Indian Tribal Organization and two counts of Embezzlement from an Indian Tribal Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that ELLIOT PEREZ, 30, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 210 months of imprisonment, ...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the implementation of the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act. The Energy and Commerce Committee helped usher the bill into law during the 112th Congress...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the implementation of the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act. The Energy and Commerce Committee helped usher the bill into law during the 112th Congress...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) expressed disgust upon the release of a new video. According to Life News, “This latest video catches the nation’s biggest abortion business selling the intact heads of aborted babies for research." House Speaker John Boehner appointed Blackburn last week to chair the select panel to investigate the handling of infant lives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig R. Gestring, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant, a middle school teacher in the Hilton School District, was arrested April 2, 2015 as he attempted to meet with a person he thought was a 14 year old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Christopher Garrity, of Leeds, Maine has pleaded guilty to a one-count information alleging that he discharged a pollutant into a navigable water, in this case the Piscataqua River, without a permit, in violation of the federal Clean Water Act.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today discussed the impact of the Federal Communications Commission’s implementation of utility style regulation of the Internet on consumers, jobs, and investment. The hearing continued the subcommittee’s work to promote an Internet ecosystem where consumers have strong protections online without harming their access to innovative new products and services.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. Nearly 1,500 individuals participated in a reentry job and resource fair at the Northwest Activities Center in Detroit today. The event connected individuals returning from prison with community resources...
