News from December 2016
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park will be hosting a Job Information Session on Tuesday, Dec. 13, from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center. Come learn about the job application process for Rocky Mountain National Park and how to apply online for specific jobs at the park. Information will also be available regarding park volunteer opportunities as well as fellowship positions with Rocky Mountain Conservancy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: GREENVILLE -The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, ANTONELLE ANN SANCHEZ, 35, pled guilty to two counts of Accepting and Receiving a Gratuity. As part of her plea, SANCHEZ agreed to pay $95,610 in forfeiture. She faces a maximum of four years’ imprisonment. GEORGE...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) warned colleagues on the House Floor last week that bipartisan efforts to update our nation’s mental health care system will be undermined if Republicans are successful in repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Pallone made the...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement after the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) released a re-proposed rule on position limits.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to conduct slash pile burns in 10 locations throughout the winter of 2016 and 2017. The specific locations of the pile burns are listed below.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), sponsors of the 21st Century Cures Act, issued the following statement following the Senate’s cloture vote this evening, clearing the way for a swift vote on passage.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Justin Thomas Mann, 28, of Wheeling Island, was sentenced to 23 months in prison for distributing heroin, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) warned colleagues on the House Floor last week that bipartisan efforts to update our nation’s mental health care system will be undermined if Republicans are successful in repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Pallone made the...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Rachel Woodall, age 40, of Wilmington, Delaware, was sentenced today by the Honorable Richard G. Andrews, United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, to twelve months and one day in prison, and full restitution. The defendant pleaded guilty to conversion of Social Security benefits in January.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) warned colleagues on the House Floor last week that bipartisan efforts to update our nation’s mental health care system will be undermined if Republicans are successful in repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Pallone made the...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.), praised the bipartisan deal with the House of Representatives to include authorization for permit ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: The picnic area near Kīpukapuaulu on Mauna Loa Road will close Tuesday while workers install a wheelchair-accessible path from the parking lot to the picnic and shelter area.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA), Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-OK), House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) today announced an agreement on comprehensive water resources infrastructure legislation.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Nāhuku (Thurston Lava Tube) and the Kahuku Unit reopened Saturday, although heavy rainfall persists at times. The snow-cloaked summit of Mauna Loa will remain closed to all day use and overnight camping until it is safe to reopen.
By State Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA), Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Ranking Member Karen Bass (D-CA) issued the following statement urging transparency and credibility for Ghana’s upcoming election...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement on the nomination of Dr. Ben Carson for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement after reports that House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy intends to include a last minute poison pill in the Water Resources Development Act.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: The Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) is joining national parks across the country in waiving entrance fees several days in 2017 as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and spend time with their friends and family in the national parks this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: Operation has Charged More than 32 with Various Drug Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Marc T. Woodley, age 32, of Plattsburgh, New York, pled guilty today to illegally possessing a firearm.
