News from December 2016
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released proposed requirements for risk management and financial assurance under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of December 5.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Honolulu - The National Park Service and the United States Navy will host the 75th Anniversary Commemoration, known as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, on Wednesday, December 7, 2016. The commemoration will be held at Kilo Pier on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from 7:45 AM to 9:15 AM.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-To protect and continue to expand the digital economy, the next U.S. president must strengthen collaboration between the public and private sectors before, during and after cybersecurity events, according to a new report released today by a blue ribbon Presidential Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 28-year-old Edinburg man has pleaded guilty to a three-count indictment charging him with production, receipt and distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced that 38 year-old Javon Jones, of Battle Creek, was recently sentenced to the maximum possible term of 120 months in prison, following his conviction for possessing a firearm as a felon. A three-year term of supervised release will follow Jones’s prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Former Supervisory Contracting Officer Sentenced to 72 Months in Prison as Part of Expanding Navy Bribery Scandal.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: On Wednesday, Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) (@repfredupton) became the most recent member to take over the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Instagram account. His day started with bright lights and a microphone, joining House Speaker Paul Ryan and the GOP leadership as well as Oversight and Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), Subcommittee on the Constitution Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN), Subcommittee on Intellectual Property Ranking Member, and former chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) wrote to President Barack Obama today ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: -- Are you aware that black inmates fought for civil rights on Alcatraz in the 1950s?
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Rockford man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Frederick J. Kapala to robbery and a gun charge.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Nāhuku (Thurston Lava Tube) and the Kahuku Unit are closed due to impacts from heavy rainfall and flash flooding. The summit of Mauna Loa remains closed to all day use and overnight camping. Closures remain in effect until it is safe to reopen.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will convene a hearing on Tuesday, December 6 to discuss Compassion International’s work in India. The hearing, entitled “American Compassion in India: Government Obstacles, " will begin at 10 a.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after the House Republican Conference voted to ratify the GOP Steering Committee’s recommendation that he continue to serve as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Sentencing has been scheduled in March 2017 for a Rushville woman, Amy Ward, 30, who pled guilty yesterday to embezzling $486,510 from her former employer, a Beardstown farmer. Ward, waived indictment and pled guilty to one count of bank fraud as charged in the information filed by...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Damion Shata Morgan, age 23, of Pueblo, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 28 months for his role as a lookout during the robbery of RJC Firearms in Pueblo, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and ATF Denver Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Ron Humphries announced. Two other defendants were prosecuted, pled guilty and were sentenced for the planning and implementation of the gun store robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Fairbanks, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that a Fairbanks woman was sentenced in federal court today for one count of interstate transportation of stolen property between 2011 and July 2012 related to her theft of over $100,000 from the evidence room at the North Slope Borough Police Department (NSBPD) in Barrow, Alaska.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) signed Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce’s (R-CA) legislation to provide a long-term extension of the Iran Sanctions Act. Set to expire at the end of this year, the Iran Sanctions Act has been a critical tool to help protect America from...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Akeen Ocean, a/k/a “A," a/k/a “Alex" 42, of Bangor was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as “crack." On June 27, 2016, the defendant was convicted following a six-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 28-year-old Edinburg man has pleaded guilty to a three-count indictment charging him with production, receipt and distribution of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
