News published on Federal Newswire in October 2015

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), in partnership with the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace National Program Office, is seeking comments on a new project focused on protecting privacy and security when reusing credentials at multiple online service providers.

By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today commending the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for approving new reforms today at the Commission’s October meeting...

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Wednesday, the Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), reviewed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ plan to update and strengthen the Medicare Part D Medication Therapy Management Program (MTM). The original goal of the program was to encourage senior patients...

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON - - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee members Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found that federal agencies can achieve significant savings and avoid unnecessary costs through streamlining acquisitions of Information Technology (IT) services.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent letters to the daily fantasy sites DraftKings and FanDuel requesting information on how the companies monitor their participants so that sports leagues can ensure their players and officials are in compliance with league policies.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Oct. 29, 2015, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Regulation of Diagnostic Tests and Laboratory Operations."

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Herman McGee, Jr., 27, and Michael Lamar Ricks, 27, cousins from Jacksonville, Florida, were sentenced on Oct. 20, 2015 by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden, in a case involving conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute over 500 grams of cocaine and conspiracy to possess a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - News continues to get worse for the president’s health law as South Carolina’s co-op announced that it would shutter in 2016. South Carolina’s closure brings the total to nine out of the original 23 co-ops that will be out of operation in 2016, bringing the total cost to taxpayers to $917,524,470. South Carolina’s news comes on the heels of co-ops in Tennessee, Colorado, and Oregon announcing that they too would close.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Williamsport returned a four-count Indictment charging a Galeton, Pennsylvania man with conspiracy to distribute, distribution, and attempted distribution of the prescription drugs, Oxycodone and Fentanyl, and heroin in Potter and Tioga Counties.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: DENVER - Two men, one from Colorado Springs, and the other from Nevada, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on investment fraud related charges, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle announced. The two men, Daniel Coddington, age 59...

By EPA Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Oct. 29, 2015, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Regulation of Diagnostic Tests and Laboratory Operations."

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Oct. 20, 2015, GREGORY THOMAS, also known as “Quanny" and “Jim," 24, of Hartford, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking crack cocaine.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) issued the following statement after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced they were issuing the operating license of the Watts Bar Nuclear Unit 2 in Tennessee...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015

News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbing Bank of America.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015

News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found James Dale Little (43, Jacksonville) guilty of transporting and possessing child pornography. Little faces a mandatory minimum of 5 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 26, 2016. He was indicted on March 26, 2015.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hardyston, New Jersey, man was charged today with exchanging images of child sexual abuse with an offender living in Maryland, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2015

News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - Approximately 16,000 local students joined students from around the country this week in pledging to do their part to end gun violence. The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa, the Cedar Rapids and Marion Police Departments, and the Linn County Sheriff’s...

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on the rising costs of higher education and tax policy.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2015

News Release: Clarkdale, AZ -Tuzigoot National Monument. Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot to Commemorate Native American Heritage Month with Indigenous Arts, Crafts, and Cultural Events. In honor of Native peoples' contributions to American culture, Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments will host special events...

By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2015

News Release: As part of their recent efforts to better understand how coyotes survive in extremely urbanized areas, National Park Service researchers recently began tracking a coyote in Northeast Los Angeles near the LA River.