News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - A registered sex offender was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Richard Voorhees to serve 235 months in a federal prison on charges of online enticement of a minor, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Voorhees also...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the early childhood education components of President Barack Obama’s FY17 budget proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Hector Bienvenido Mateo-Beltre, pleaded guilty today to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute. Mateo-Beltre appeared before United States District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe to enter his guilty plea.
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement after hosting a meeting with Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Kurtis Johnson (26, Punta Gorda) to eight years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit his laptop and three external hard drives that had been used to commit the offense. Johnson pleaded guilty on November 5, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: MARKUP: Ways and Means Committee to Hold Markup Tomorrow.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Arrow Farms of New York Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington - Three Columbia-area, South Carolina Liberty Tax Service franchises deliberately prepare false federal income tax returns in order to increase their customers’ refunds, according to a civil lawsuit filed today by the Justice Department. The United States’ complaint asks the U.S. District...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Budget that was submitted to Congress today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement following the release of President Obama’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Southbridge man was sentenced today in U.S. District court in Worcester for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a report prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) raising key questions about President Obama’s proposal to levy a new $10-per-barrel tax on oil.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs is proposing a Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget of nearly $23 million, or an increase of $7 million from the FY 2016 budget of $16 million. The Office is proposing to double its technical assistance budget to $6 million to meet...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) issued the following statement after the Supreme Court issued a stay of the administration’s Clean Power Plan...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s misguided decision to delay implementation of the Clean Power Plan rule...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement in response to President Barack Obama’s FY2017 budget request.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Miami Physician Pleads Guilty for Role in $20 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington -The National Park Service is accepting comments through March 10 on a draft.Objects left at the wall with no direct connection to a Vietnam veteran or the Vietnam War would no longer be added to the permanent collection.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) issued the following statement after the Supreme Court issued a stay of the administration’s Clean Power Plan...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s misguided decision to delay implementation of the Clean Power Plan rule...
