News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: Beth Drake (803) 929-3000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: United States and Canada Sharing Investigation and Prosecution.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing with Secretary of Education Dr. John King to discuss the bipartisan Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the landmark legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today Gilbert Valadez-Garcia, a Mexican citizen working in Juneau, was indicted for the distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: A government contractor is charged with sexually exploiting and trafficking in children, while working overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: On April 8, 2016, a Fort Pierce jury found an Indiantown resident guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: 2017 mark: $81.6 billion (including OCO).
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and committee member Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), today sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy requesting legal justification for the agency’s proposed regulation on racing vehicle modifications.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore has implemented an off road vehicle (ORV) corridor near a pair of nesting American oystercatchers at Cape Point in Buxton, N.C. The corridor is being implemented consistent with the National Park Service’s 2015 Review and Adjustment of Wildlife Protection Buffers.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Everyone is invited to Find Your Park and participate in the upcoming Kahuku events and guided hikes at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, from April through June 2016. Kahuku is open to the public every Saturday and Sunday of the month from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and all events are free. You can explore Kahuku on your own, or join these upcoming programs, including a new trail, Pu‘u Kahuku.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and committee member Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), today sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy requesting legal justification for the agency’s proposed regulation on racing vehicle modifications.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s efforts to combat the Zika virus, the House of Representatives today passed S. 2512, the Adding Zika Virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act. The legislation will add the virus to the list of tropical diseases under the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Little Rock, Iowa man convicted of Use of Interstate Facilities to Transmit Information about a Minor was sentenced on April 11, 2016, by United States District Court Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joe Padilla, 34, of Hobbs, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 151 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his conviction on narcotics trafficking charges.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s efforts to combat the Zika virus, the House of Representatives today passed S. 2512, the Adding Zika Virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act. The legislation will add the virus to the list of tropical diseases under the program.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Tom Buchanan of the Oklahoma Farm Bureau Testifies at Senate EPW Subcommittee Hearing
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 35-year-old “Valluco" is headed to federal prison following his conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jesus Grijalva, of San Juan, pleaded guilty Dec. 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Barry Grissom announced today that he will step down as U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas effective April 15.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015: Examining Physician Efforts to Prepare for Medicare Payment Reforms." The hearing will be the sequel to a March 10, 2016 hearing on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and committee member Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), today sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy requesting legal justification for the agency’s proposed regulation on racing vehicle modifications.
