News from September 2015
By EPA Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 21.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today introduced the National Park Service Centennial Act (H.R. 3556), which provides funding and management authority for the National Park Service (NPS) to help the country celebrate the Service’s 100th anniversary next year. The bill establishes...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This week, Energy and Commerce Democrats fought back against yet another Republican attempt to deprive women across the country of life-saving preventative services by slashing Planned Parenthood funding and, this time, recklessly threatening to shut down the federal government in the process.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that the Milwaukee Police Department has been awarded a Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) Program grant of $294,668 to support the Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission (MHRC) efforts to reduce gun violence in the City of Milwaukee.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s notice alleging that Volkswagen knowingly violated the Clean Air Act by using software in its cars that circumvents emissions standards testing for certain air pollutants...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today that an Indictment was filed against Pamela Griffin Frizzelle, 52, of Merrillville, Indiana for seven counts of Hobbs Act Extortion.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today commented on a report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office regarding the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s work to transition oversight of the Domain Name system to the global internet community.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This week, Energy and Commerce Democrats fought back against yet another Republican attempt to deprive women across the country of life-saving preventative services by slashing Planned Parenthood funding and, this time, recklessly threatening to shut down the federal government in the process.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. -SEPTEMBER 18, 2015. Caleb Kesler, Chief Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-5276 x222. Clarkdale, AZ -Tuzigoot National Monument. Evening Flute Concert with Harry Seavey at Tuzigoot National Monument. Harry Seavey will present a special flute concert at Tuzigoot National Monument...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s notice alleging that Volkswagen knowingly violated the Clean Air Act by using software in its cars that circumvents emissions standards testing for certain air pollutants...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing to consider four more commonsense bills to strengthen the Medicaid program. The subcommittee last week discussed six additional bills in its ongoing commitment to strengthen Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former Navy noncommissioned officer pleaded guilty today to accepting approximately $25,000 in cash bribes from vendors while he served in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TREVOR PIERCE, 30, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for planning to conduct an armed robbery of narcotics stash house.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Charvester Anthony to four years and three months in federal prison for receiving stolen government property. As part of his sentence, the Court entered a money judgment in the amount of $31,000, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. A federal jury found him guilty on June 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A federal criminal indictment unsealed today in Asheville charges 16 men and women with narcotics conspiracy operating in Swain, Cherokee and surrounding counties, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Of the 16 defendants ...
By State Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The bipartisan leadership of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees today welcomed the Japanese parliament’s passage of legislation that will permit Japan to engage in collective self-defense, including coming to the aid of an ally. Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: The FAA has provided $11 million in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funds to eight airports that have risk factors for runway incursions. In June, the FAA unveiled the Runway Incursion Mitigation (RIM) program that will identify and mitigate risk factors that contribute to runway incursions at specific airports. The risk factors include unclear taxiway markings, lighting or signage, or confusing taxiway layout.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jarrud Michael Dixon, 26, of New Market, Maryland, and Robert Sales, 32, of Mt. Airy, Maryland, with unlawful firearms trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A previously convicted felon who resided in Laredo has been sentenced for illegally possessing 14 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammunition, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Humberto Hilario-Gomez, 25, of Laredo, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition on Jan. 13, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: POTOMAC, Md.- An adult white-tailed deer buck that charged a national park ranger on Wednesday, Sept. 16 has tested positive for rabies. The ranger was responding to a report of a deer in distress near Sycamore Landing along the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal. Visitors and any pets that may have come in contact with the deer are urged to report the encounter and seek immediate medical treatment.
