News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Milford woman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with embezzling over $70,000 in rent payments owed to the Framingham Housing Authority (FHA).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Marking the culmination of a three-year journey on the #Path2Cures, President Obama today signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law. The House passed the game-changing medical innovation bill 392 to 26 on Nov. 30, and the Senate followed suit, voting 94 to 5 on December 7. Last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Pro Tempore Orrin Hatch (R-UT) signed the bill at an enrollment ceremony before formally sending it to the president.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today released a statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final report on the impacts from hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources. This report is the conclusion of a 2009 request from Congress for the EPA to conduct a national study on the relationship between the specific act of hydraulic fracturing and drinking water.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Marking the culmination of a three-year journey on the #Path2Cures, President Obama today signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law. The House passed the game-changing medical innovation bill 392 to 26 on Nov. 30, and the Senate followed suit, voting 94 to 5 on December 7. Last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Pro Tempore Orrin Hatch (R-UT) signed the bill at an enrollment ceremony before formally sending it to the president.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Department of Justice and the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced the appointment of Randy Hanzlick, M.D. to the National Commission on Forensic Science (NCFS.) Dr. Hanzlick also accepted the invitation to serve as the NCFS Medicolegal Death Investigation subcommittee co-chair alongside NCFS Commissioner John Fudenberg.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is launching two new prize challenges, Arsenic Sensor Challenge and More Water, Less Concentrate. This is the first stage for each challenge. Subsequent stages with larger prize purses are planned for testing and demonstrating the most promising technologies.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Los Angeles, CA - If you ever dreamed of working for the National Park Service, now is the time, with more than 500 seasonal job openings available for the summer of 2017, in over fifteen parks across the state of California.
By State Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding President-elect Donald J. Trump’s intention to nominate Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Elite Lab Services, LLC, along with its husband-and-wife owners Gerard and Suzanne Dengler, will pay the United States $3.75 million after billing Medicare for tens of thousands of miles that were never driven by Elite Lab’s personnel, announced Acting United States Attorney Brit Featherston.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Now in its 11th year, the Arctic Report Card, released today at the annual American Geophysical Union fall meeting in San Francisco, is a peer-reviewed report that brings together the work of 61 scientists from 11 nations who report on air, ocean, land and ecosystem changes. It is a key tool used around the world to track changes in the Arctic and how those changes may affect communities, businesses and people.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A California man has been ordered to prison following his conviction for his part in a conspiracy to traffic 132 kilograms of methamphetamine through South Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Deandre Bennett, 57, pleaded guilty March 29, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after President Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 34), into law. Pallone was the lead House Democratic negotiator on this legislation, and worked closely with Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATHANIEL SMITH, 29, of Aurora, Colorado, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news of former Governor of Texas Rick Perry’s expected nomination to head the Department of Energy (DOE):
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Methamphetamine Conspirators Brought Large. Abingdon, VIRGINIA - Two Texas sources of ICE methamphetamine-who supplied a local conspiracy with large quantities of the drug for multiple years-have been sentenced in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Hugh Allen Russell, age 31, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty on Sept. 15, 2016 to Receipt of Child Pornography. Senior United States District Court...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Multiagency Network Returns Endangered Salmon to Redwood Creek.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, lauded the passage of H.R. 6302, the Overtime Pay for Secret Service Agents Act of 2016, by the House of Representatives.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Marking the culmination of a three-year journey on the #Path2Cures, President Obama today signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law. The House passed the game-changing medical innovation bill 392 to 26 on Nov. 30, and the Senate followed suit, voting 94 to 5 on December 7. Last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senate Pro Tempore Orrin Hatch (R-UT) signed the bill at an enrollment ceremony before formally sending it to the president.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Barack Obama will be joined by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and other Congressional leaders for the signing ceremony for the 21st Century Cures Act.
