News from February 2016
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 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) Energy and Environmental Markets Advisory Committee (EEMAC) released a report today on position limits.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - As part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to cut energy waste in the nation’s buildings, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today recognized the city of Orlando and Parkway Properties for their leadership in improving energy efficiency across a combined 20 million square feet of...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced legislation that would deny Corporate Average Fuel...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at the nomination hearing of Dr. John King to serve as Secretary of Education. In her remarks, Murray highlighted the significant...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) issued the following statement today commending the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for proposing to revise its regulations for Risk Management Program (RMP) facilities in order to better protect workers and communities around chemical facilities.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL), Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced legislation that would deny Corporate Average Fuel...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, March 3, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Disrupter Series: Wearable Devices."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Fort Campbell, Kentucky, woman was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Thomas B. Russell to 18 years in prison, followed by a three year period of supervised release, for the first degree manslaughter, resulting from child abuse, in the death of an infant whom she was babysitting in December 2013, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing to review the Presidential Memoranda on mitigation issued on November 3rd, 2015 to five federal agencies. The memoranda creates sweeping new statutory authority and new requirements that agencies must use when evaluating and approving projects on federal lands and waters.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Defendant Took $8.9 Million in “Commissions" in Ponzi Scheme That Caused Losses of More Than $150 Million.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) praised the Senate for passing the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Members joined Speaker Paul Ryan earlier today in sending the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 to the President’s desk. The bipartisan, bicameral agreement, which passed out of the Senate earlier this month, will bring America’s customs and border protections system into the 21st century by facilitating international trade opportunities and strengthening enforcement laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and for illegally possessing a firearm and ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a report Wednesday, “The Labor Department’s Fiduciary Rule: How a Flawed Process Could Hurt Retirement Savers, " detailing the Labor Department’s flawed process in handing down its fiduciary rule.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: En Español Consistent with their enforcement policies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are not conducting enforcement operations at or near locations distributing clean water in Flint, Michigan or surrounding areas affected by the current water situation. Moreover, DHS officials do not and will not pose as individuals providing water-related information or distributing clean water as part of any enforcement activities.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I am pleased that Congress passed H.R. 644, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, signed into law today by President Obama.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Conspired with Others, Including Her Son, to Claim Fraudulent Tax Returns Claiming More Than $4 Million in Tax Refunds Using Stolen Names and Social Security Numbers An Alabama woman was sentenced today to serve 51 months in prison for her role in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Fourteen alleged members of two violent street gangs in South Carolina and alleged associates of both gangs have been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise and using firearms in the commission of attempted murder in aid of racketeering activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Stole Identities of Individuals on Her Mail Route for Use in Filing False Tax Returns A Seale, Alabama, resident and former U.S. Postal Service employee was sentenced today to serve more than five years in prison for her role in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama announced.
