News from January 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released final environmental assessment for the East Bay Regional Park District’s Contra Loma Boat Launch Facility Improvements Project.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: Inhofe, Sasse Call for DOJ WOTUS Investigation
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) unveiled comprehensive legislation to address the substance abuse crisis plaguing far too many communities in New Jersey and across the country. Pallone discussed his bill, the Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: Due to the extreme winter weather expected in Washington, D.C., this weekend, all Energy and Commerce Committee activity scheduled for the week of Jan. 25, 2016, has been postponed.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) unveiled comprehensive legislation to address the substance abuse crisis plaguing far too many communities in New Jersey and across the country. Pallone discussed his bill, the Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: Due to the extreme winter weather expected in Washington, D.C., this weekend, all Energy and Commerce Committee activity scheduled for the week of Jan. 25, 2016, has been postponed.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: Due to the extreme winter weather expected in Washington, D.C., this weekend, all Energy and Commerce Committee activity scheduled for the week of Jan. 25, 2016, has been postponed.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: Addressing the nation's rapidly increasing need for cybersecurity employees, the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) is seeking members from the public and private sectors and academia to join its new working group and encourages interested individuals to participate in a kickoff teleconference the afternoon of Jan. 27, 2016.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: After seeing news reports over the past several weeks concerning the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, I was shocked and dismayed at a meeting yesterday of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) to consider S. 659, the so-called "Bipartisan Sportsmen Act," which included an unrelated amendment that weakens our nation's drinking water protections.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: Diana Petterson, 972-850-4710, petterson.diana@dol.gov. Juan Rodriguez, 972-850-4709, rodriguez.juan@dol.gov. Release Number: 16-93-DAL. -------------------------------. U.S. Department of Labor news materials are accessible at
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: KINSHASA, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) finished a mission to Africa yesterday after pressing the Kabila government in the DRC to let more than 400 American families finally bring their adopted children home.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Health Care, Benefits, and Administrative Rules Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen after learning the IRS destroyed documents...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the implementation of an accelerated process for annual water transfers and/or exchanges pursuant to Section 3405(a) of the CVPIA for Contract Years 2016 through 2020 (March 1, 2016 to Feb. 28, 2021).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today the indictment of three individuals charged in a kidnapping conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) unveiled comprehensive legislation to address the substance abuse crisis plaguing far too many communities in New Jersey and across the country. Pallone discussed his bill, the Heroin and Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2016
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - The Inyo National Forest and the Bishop Field Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold an open house Feb. 11 to gather ideas from the public for requesting off-highway vehicle grant funds.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Inside the Mind of ISIS: Understanding Its Goals and Ideology to Better Protect the Homeland. " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Pleasantville, New Jersey, man admitted participating in a nearly three-year conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in the Atlantic City, New Jersey area.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Earlier today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, voted against a bill that would effectively stop the resettlement of fully-vetted refugee women, children and families from Syria and Iraq in the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2016 – In anticipation of legislation this week from the Senate to reauthorize child nutrition programs, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack provides the following statement: We are pleased the Senate is making bipartisan progress to reauthorize critical child nutrition programs. The ...
