News from July 2016
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed landmark bipartisan legislation to reform our nation’s mental health system by a vote of 422-2. H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, was introduced by Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) following an extensive subcommittee investigation into the nation’s failing mental health care system.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on the rising costs of health insurance premiums under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The hearing will take place on Tuesday, July 12, and will begin immediately following...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Power Subcommittee Ranking Bobby Rush delivered the following opening remarks at the hearing titled, "A Review of EPA's Regulatory Activity During the Obama Administration: Energy and Industrial Sectors":
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of CERCLA Implementation."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the sentencing of a Salem, Virginia man who was previously convicted of failing to registering as convicted sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Garden Grove man who worked for the United States Postal Service for more than two decades appeared in federal court this morning after agreeing to plead guilty to stealing from the mail and selling at least 6,240 credit cards.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: Everglades National Park Announces Partial Power Outage on July 6 - corrected.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today awarded $119,000 to Ionic Security, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia, to advance detection and monitoring ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 This past holiday weekend, as increased numbers of Americans traveled by domestic commercial air, the men and women of TSA worked hard to keep passengers moving through security checkpoints, and keep them safe. Particularly in the current global threat environment, we are not compromising or short-cutting aviation security, while meeting increased travel volume.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 5, 2016 – Over the past seven years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has instituted some of the most significant updates to our country's food safety system since the 1950s, leading to a 12 percent drop in foodborne illness associated ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former member of the Army National Guard, was arrested on July 3 for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). According to the complaint, Jalloh is alleged to have attempted to provide services by assisting in the procurement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: Two former elected members of the School Board of Donna, Texas, and a private citizen who served as a middleman were sentenced today in the Southern District of Texas for accepting bribes in connection with a services contract held by the Donna Independent School District (DISD), announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced that 19 small businesses will receive nearly $3.3 million in grants to spur U.S. innovation and competitiveness through federally funded research and development.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico – A consent judgment has been filed in federal district court ordering a Yauco coffee grower to pay $101,484 in back wages to more than 170 year-round farm workers and seasonal coffee pickers who the company underpaid between 2011 and 2014.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – Two separate court rulings in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California are putting more than $1 million in back wages and damages into the hands of dozens of workers denied minimum wage and overtime by the owners of nearly a dozen Bay Area residential care facilities.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: YORK, Pa. – The sexual assault of a home health care worker has resulted in a willful citation against one of the nation’s leading providers of pediatric home health and therapy services for medically frail and chronically ill children, after it failed to protect its employees properly from the dangers ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 5, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. – A division of one of the nation’s leading transportation companies has entered into a conciliation agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs to resolve allegations of race-based hiring discrimination. Norfolk Southern Corp. is a federal ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 5, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on July 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jul 5, 2016
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on July 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2016
The US Interior Department published a four page notice on July 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
