News from January 2016
By USDA Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, and his collaborators have developed an antimicrobial wash that reduces the risk of foodborne pathogens contaminating fresh produce.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (R-Ore.) today sent a letter to Internal Revenue Commissioner (IRS) John Koskinen asking for answers regarding the agency’s recordkeeping practices after it was revealed the agency erased a former employee’s...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) issued the following statement today in response to enforcement changes announced by the Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials have closed all park facilities today, Jan. 20, due to impending inclement weather moving through our area today. Sugarlands Visitor Center, Oconaluftee Visitor Center, and all administrative offices including Park Headquarters are closed.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Witnesses told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee of the strategic importance of ISIS’ territorial control to its success. What’s more, witnesses pointed out that even if ISIS attracts only a tiny fringe of the world’s Muslim population to its barbaric ideology, its potential adherents could number in the millions.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has extended the public comment period on the Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the San Luis Solar Project. The original comment period closed on Friday, Jan. 15. The new comment period will close on Friday,
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - - Omar Alejandro Alfaro, 37, of Texas, was sentenced yesterday to 84 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to sell large quantities of heroin and methamphetamine to Alaska based drug dealers. The conspiracy began in January 2013 and continued until October 2014. During that time, co-conspirators imported a total of 12 kilograms of heroin and two pounds of methamphetamine into the United States from Mexico.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Frontier Ag Inc. Citations received: Jan. 15, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Wichita Area Office cited the Quinter, Kansas, grain cooperative for two repeated and three serious safety violations. Federal inspectors...
By State Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: ARUSHA, TANZANIA - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and a bipartisan Congressional delegation yesterday concluded two days of meetings in Tanzania focused on economic development, health and human rights, conservation and regional security.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) - the ranking members of the House Natural Resources Committee and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, respectively - are calling on the Interior Department (DOI) to finalize new financial bonding standards...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg has indicted Rodney Robinson, age 30, and Amber Crummitt, age 33, of Boonsboro, Maryland for conspiracy to steal firearms from a federal firearms licensee along with other related charges.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After requesting information regarding the administration’s unlawful payments to insurance companies for almost a year, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) each issued a subpoena to Secretary of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: Nathaniel N. Germany, Jr., 26, Kansas City, Kan., is charged with one count of carjacking, one count of brandishing a firearm during the carjacking, and one count of unlawful possession of a firearm following a felony conviction. The crimes are alleged to have occurred Sept. 1 and Sept. 8, 2015, in Wyandotte County, Kan.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 243,100 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By State Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the terrorist attack on a school in Pakistan...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after a Republican majority of the Committee approved S. 659, the Bipartisan Sportsmen Act. This legislation contains several provisions that would be harmful ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued a statement today in response to a new GAO report detailing how Internal Revenue Service (IRS) taxpayer services are deteriorating over prior years, coinciding with a 10 percent reduction in IRS annual appropriations and new resource allocation demands to meet changing statutory responsibilities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva released the following statement on this morning’s announcement by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that 2015 was by far the hottest year on record, surpassing 2014’s record by a wider margin than ever observed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M, Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Donald McCann, 32, of Bedford Hills, N.Y., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 54 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for illegally obtaining and distributing prescription narcotics.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) pressed Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx on the completion of a critical rule that would better protect communities and emergency responders after toxic crude-by-rail accidents.
