News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A Macon County federal firearms licensee was sentenced today to a 30-month prison term for selling firearms to a prohibited person, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Philip Nelson Elliott, 55, of Franklin, N.C., was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. to serve three years under court supervision following his prison term.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to new disclosures that former Secretary Colin Powell and the immediate staff of former Secretary Condoleezza Rice received classified national security information on their personal email accounts...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing today to consider this important nomination. I’m pleased we could quickly reschedule after postponing our hearing last week due to the snowstorm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In an effort to combat the growing epidemic of prescription drug and heroin abuse, leaders of the FBI and DEA today unveiled a documentary aimed at educating students and young adults about the dangers of the addiction. “Chasing the Dragon" is a 45-minute documentary film that profiles the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - An Antelope couple was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 15 years in prison each for four felony counts related to the arson of their former home and home-based business, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva released the following statement applauding President Obama’s call to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), one of America’s most important conservation programs. Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) has advocated gutting the program, despite strong bipartisan support for Grijalva’s bill to permanently reauthorize the Fund.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore. along with Senate Democrats, today introduced legislation designed to help more working families and middle class Americans save for retirement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A New York man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield to evading taxes on the sale of tobacco products.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: The proposal, a major step forward in combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, aims to trace the origins of imported seafood by establishing reporting and filing procedures for imported fish and fish products entering U.S. commerce.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: ANGELS CAMP, Calif. - More than 20 wild horses, including animals gentled and trained to ride, will be offered for adoption Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20, at the Calaveras County Fairgrounds, 101 Frogtown Rd. in Angels Camp.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: While the Obama administration has formally signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, it does not mean a vote on the 12 nation trade pact is imminent or that Congress’s oversight responsibilities are at an end. In many ways, it is just beginning.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: The National Park Service has announced $15 million in support of 69 projects in 63 parks, including $24,500 at Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park to replace outdated entrance signs at 12 major areas of the national park in Georgia and Tennessee, and to build a new primary entrance sign designed for group photographs.The funding will be matched with $49,200 from the Friends of Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing to consider Beth F. Cobert to be director of the Office of Personnel Management. Below is Chairman Johnson’s opening statement as submitted for the record...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today welcomed U.S. Rep. Mike Bost (R-IL) as a newly appointed member of the Committee.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a draft Environmental Assessment/Initial Study proposing a new turnout and pipeline to facilitate a 10-year transfer and exchange of recaptured San Joaquin River Restoration Flows to Red Top.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: Manhattan Project National Historical Park will present films from a number of National Park Service sites that commemorate events and issues surrounding World War II on Saturday afternoon Feb. 20, at the American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) turns 100 on Aug. 25, 2016. As a lead up to the centennial, we are encouraging people of all ages to find their park, take part in the celebration, and learn about the national parks in their community through volunteerism.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will convene a hearing at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, February 10 entitled, “From Iraq and Syria to Libya and Beyond: The Evolving ISIL Threat.".
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: The projects selected are designed to help coastal communities improve their resilience to adverse events by improving their ability to prepare for and respond to a variety of coastal threats, including extreme weather events, climate hazards, and changing ocean conditions.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, sent a letter to Timothy Massad, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), calling for answers regarding CFTC’s misguided accounting practices.
