News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Joseph W. Basham, Jr., 32, of Rome, Ohio, with being a felon in possession of firearms and failing to register as a sex offender, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Timothy Salel (619) 546-8055.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: The 2015 report highlights the United States’ continued progress towards managing fish stocks sustainably. This is a result of the combined efforts of NOAA Fisheries, commercial and recreational fishermen, the regional fishery management councils, states, and other partners.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John James Kash, 53, of Redding, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to six and a half years in prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana, manufacturing marijuana, and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans held a legislative hearing on three bills: H.R. 1869, “Environmental Compliance Cost Transparency Act of 2015," H.R. 2993, “Water Recycling Acceleration Act of 2015," and H.R. 4582, “Save Our Salmon (SOS) Act.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former Labette County bank clerk was sentenced Wednesday to three years on probation, including eight months home confinement, and ordered to pay full restitution for embezzling more than $83,000 from the bank where she worked, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: New York, NY -The Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island and the National Park Service (NPS) and Tribeca Film Institute® (TFI) are pleased to announce the red carpet premiere of The America I Am (TAIA) national youth film competition at the Tribeca Film Festival on Thursday, April 21st.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today introduced legislation to bring fairness to the tax code by restoring the estate tax and gift tax to the more sensible levels that were in effect in 2009.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: “Good afternoon. The Subcommittee will come to order. Welcome to the Ways and Means Subcommittee hearing on the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill. Before hearing from our witnesses, I’d like to make a few points.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the committee’s ranking member, today led the Senate’s approval of their broad, bipartisan energy legislation by a vote of 85 to 12. The passage of S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016, marks the first time the Senate has approved a major energy bill in almost a decade.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed five bipartisan measures, including H. Con. Res. 88. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH), reaffirms the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances as the cornerstone of United States-Taiwan relations.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the release by the Government of Azerbaijan of human rights activists Leyla and Arif Yunus...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced JOHNNIE ANTHONY MANSON, 24, of Henderson to 241 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Tok man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for possessing firearms as a convicted felon.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Ron Johnson, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing Wednesday titled: “The Administrative State: An Examination of Federal Rulemaking." Below is Chairman Johnson’s opening statement as submitted for the record...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: “The only item on our agenda today is H.R. 4923, the ‘American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016.’ I will begin with an opening statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Juneau man was indicted yesterday for the receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Evanston, Ill. man was sentenced Tuesday in federal court on a federal bank robbery charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man and a Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today, in separate and unrelated cases, to illegally possessing firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WHAT: The National Park Service holds an annual observance of the birthday of Ulysses S. Grant at the front of General Grant National Memorial in Manhattan. The keynote speaker will consider the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution passed during the Grant Administration. As always, the Corps of Cadets and the Military Garrison at West Point will provide an honor guard which will play Taps during a wreath-laying ceremony, followed by firing a rifle salute.
