News from September 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Committee to Review Legislation to Bolster Enforcement of Born-Alive Infants Protection Act and Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) last evening applauded the unanimous Senate approval of S. 1603, the Border Jobs for Veterans Act. The bipartisan bill will help put veterans to work as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at understaffed U.S. ports of entry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that CLINTON JAMES JONES, age 34, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma was sentenced to 54 months imprisonment for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM AND AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate that would settle the long-standing lands claims of the Alaska Native residents of Alexander Creek, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Karl David Audirsch, 40, of Louisiana, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 87 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant was also ordered to forfeit $945,000 in cash.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today advanced Chairman Emeritus Joe Barton’s H.R. 702, legislation that will lift the nearly 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on a number of bills, including H.R. 538, the “Native American Energy Act" sponsored by Rep. Don Young (R-AK), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaskan Native Affairs. The legislation passed Committee by a vote of 23 to 12. Following passage, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) commented.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Jeffrey Traverse, 39, of Hinsdale, New Hampshire, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on federal charges of conspiring to distribute marijuana, and conspiring to engage in money laundering, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. The Court imposed a term of 15 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A 38-year-old resident of Humble has been ordered to federal prison following her convictions in two separate schemes to defraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement regarding the Republican majority’s announcement that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing next week to consider several bills attacking a woman’s right to choose...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Used Tribal Credit Card to Purchase Items for Personal Use.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Alive Hospice, Inc. has paid over $1.5 million to reimburse the government for alleged overbilling of Medicare and TennCare for hospice services, announced Jack Smith, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Alive is a non-profit hospice care provider that operates in Tennessee and provides various levels of hospice services.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement regarding the Republican majority’s announcement that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing next week to consider several bills attacking a woman’s right to choose...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: The Honorable Carol Fortine Ochoa, Inspector General, General Services Administration
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A married couple from India having no lawful status in the United States pleaded guilty Thursday to charges related to unlawful employment of undocumented workers, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Minnesota National Guardsman Pleads Guilty to Producing Child Pornography While Deployed to Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Energy Department released its second Quadrennial Technology Review (QTR), which examines the current status of clean energy technologies and identifies hundreds of clean energy research opportunities that could support the effort to modernize the power sector as a whole...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Eddie Lee Watson, 64, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to distribution of fentanyl, before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement regarding the Republican majority’s announcement that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing next week to consider several bills attacking a woman’s right to choose...
