News from October 2015
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) joined Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Representatives Nita Lowey (D-NY), Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), and Lois Capps (D-CA), ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice concluded its investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) handling of tax-exempt organization applications under Lois Lerner...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Darius Jondi Edwards (35, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to manufacturing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: LEADVILLE, COLO. - The Bureau of Reclamation will test its warning sirens at the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Treatment Plant on Thursday, November 5, 2015, starting at 1 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and its Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today asked the Government Accountability Office - the nation’s nonpartisan watchdog - to complete a review of the management of the Federal Communications Commission’s Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: High-Level International Drug Trafficker Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Long-Running Narcotics Conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess M.D. (R-TX), today continued its examination of ways to better protect seniors and ensure their data is safe from bad actors. Certain types of scams are more likely to impact senior citizens, and with more consumers spending increased time online, there is ample data available at the fingertips of criminals around the globe.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to the U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy asking about the safety of recycled rubber tire “crumbs" used in synthetic turf fields in the United States. In light of recent NBC News headlines - “How Safe...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to the U.S. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy asking about the safety of recycled rubber tire “crumbs" used in synthetic turf fields in the United States. In light of recent NBC News headlines - “How Safe...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Kenny P. Breedlove, 35, of Porterville, California, was sentenced yesterday to 110 months for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Visiting U.S. District Judge Dee V. Benson also ordered Breedlove to serve four years of supervised release following his release from prison. Breedlove pleaded guilty to the charge on May 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Jywaun Davis Williams, 29, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced on Oct. 22, 2015, by Chief District Judge Louis Guirola to 28 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for interstate travel in aid of an unlawful activity (drug trafficking), announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Edgardo Batiz Medina, 30, a resident of Gautier and native of Puerto Rico, was sentenced on Oct. 22, 2015, by Chief District Judge Louis Guirola, to two years in federal prison followed by one year of supervised release for his role in the sale of fraudulent birth certificates and social security cards, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Yesterday, an editorial in the Wall Street Journal highlighted the newest attack on Republicans for Obamacare’s failing co-ops. Democrats continue to dodge responsibility for the president’s health law by accusing Republicans of neglecting the public option, “Medicaid for all", and in place supporting...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess M.D. (R-TX), today continued its examination of ways to better protect seniors and ensure their data is safe from bad actors. Certain types of scams are more likely to impact senior citizens, and with more consumers spending increased time online, there is ample data available at the fingertips of criminals around the globe.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Despite heavy rains causing a short delay in start time, the Bureau of Land Management and the Nevada Department of Corrections Silver State Industries hosted this year’s final of four annual saddle-trained horse adoption events Oct. 17.Eleven wild horses from ranges on BLM-administered public lands...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Speaker John Boehner today announced the Republican appointments to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Select Investigative Panel that will focus on the abhorrent practices of big abortion providers. Full committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) will lead the Select Investigative Panel. Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) and committee member Dr. Larry Bucshon (R-IN) were also appointed to the panel.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess M.D. (R-TX), today continued its examination of ways to better protect seniors and ensure their data is safe from bad actors. Certain types of scams are more likely to impact senior citizens, and with more consumers spending increased time online, there is ample data available at the fingertips of criminals around the globe.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: In El Paso, 42-year-old Antonio Escobedo was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for enticement of a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and production of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: The Defendant Stole and then Sold the Firearms while on Supervised Release for Previous Federal Gun Conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Phillip L.B. Halpern (619) 546-6964 and Andrew G. Schopler (619) 546-8068.
