News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Springdale, UT- The National Park Service (NPS) has released its Fiscal Year 2015 deferred maintenance statistics for national parks. The $11.9 billion nationwide total was up from the $11.49 billion reported at the end of FY2014. Zion National Park's backlog of deferred maintenance projects totals $69,848,827.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael C. Sibley has been sentenced to two years in prison for creating a hoax when he left a backpack containing two inoperable pipe bombs in Vickery Creek Park in Roswell, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant Used Information Stolen from Antioch Tax Business Client Files.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tonight, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) voted to override President Obama’s veto of the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015 (H.R. 3762) and ultimately repeal Obamacare. Earlier today, Chairman Brady spoke on the floor of the House of Representatives about his strong support for this legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that on February 9, 2016, Jessica A. Teets, 28, of Granite City, Illinois, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court in East Saint Louis on the charge that she engaged in a scheme to defraud a health care program. The district court sentenced Teets to five years of probation. She was also ordered to pay $1,292.62 in restitution to the Home Services Program.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on President Obama’s budget proposals for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for fiscal year 2017 on Wednesday, February 10th at 2:00 PM.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Ray Manygoats, 26, of Tuba City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 70 months’ imprisonment after Manygoats previously pleaded guilty to two counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Judge Snow previously sentenced co-defendant, Lee Bighorse Reed, 23, also of Tuba City, Ariz., to 84 months’ imprisonment on the same charges. Both defendants and victims are members of the Navajo Nation.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s FY 2017 budget request...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member on the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the Supreme Court issued an order to stay the implementation of President Obama's Clean Power Plan. The plan, which targets dangerous carbon emissions from the nation's largest source -- power plants -- would also keep the United States on target for reductions necessary to meet international commitments.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) this week released its fiscal year 2015 deferred maintenance statistics for national parks. The $11.9 billion nationwide total was up from the $11.49 billion reported at the end of fiscal year 2014. Acadia's portion of deferred maintenance backlog is approximately $68.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - An IRS employee whose job was to assist taxpayers experiencing problems resulting from identity theft pleaded guilty Monday in federal court to stealing identities and orchestrating a tax-fraud scheme involving up to $1.5 million in fraudulent income tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney...
By Commerce 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 EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) today welcomed the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) passing seven bipartisan bills as part of its medical innovation package that is similar to the House passed H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. Momentum continues in the collective effort to deliver #CuresNow.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Foreign Agricultural Service is currently recruiting for Foreign Service Positions. The vacancy announcement for hiring new Foreign Service Officer Trainees has been posted on USA Jobs and closes on Feb. 17, 2016. The announcement can be found at the following link.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today praised President Obama’s newly released budget proposal to establish a dedicated funding source to clean up the estimated 500,000 abandoned hardrock mines posing environmental and safety hazards to communities around the country.
By EPA 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 Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget request for the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation continues President Obama’s commitment to provide robust investments in the safety, reliability and efficiency of America’s water infrastructure and in conservation, reuse and applied science to address the nation’s water supply challenges, especially in the West.
By DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. - Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined today by Erie County Health Commissioner Dr. Gale Burstein, United States Attorney for the Western District of New York William J. Hochul Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Resident Agent In Charge John Flickinger to issue an emergency warning regarding the opiate crisis in Erie County following the revelation that there have been nine opioid overdose-related deaths over a seven-day period.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former Saline County, Mo., Sheriff pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing nearly $79,000 in public funds by taking checks - issued by the state to reimburse the county for prisoner expenses - for his own personal use.
