News from June 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Lew: Pursuant to the Committee’s inquiry into the use of certain energy-related tax provisions, I write concerning the Treasury Department’s (“the Department") administration of Section 1603 Payments for Specified Energy Property in Lieu of Tax Credits (“Section 1603 program / Section...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Todd McCall Named Assistant Director for the Operational Technology Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Rogers. I mentioned this at subcommittee, but today marks Chairman Crenshaw’s last full committee markup as Chairman. For the past four years, he has been a partner and a friend on this bill, and I was greatly saddened by his announcement to retire a few weeks ago. I want to take...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member John Lewis (D-GA) took more action to protect law-abiding citizens and their hard-earned dollars. In a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Roskam and Lewis asked the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Law Enforcement Operation Resulted in Fatal Shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph W. Davis, 31, of Wheeling, pled guilty today to unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Cassidy Winters, 29, of Great Falls was sentenced today to 28 months in prison and 10 years’ supervised release for possession of child pornography. Winters will also be required to pay $12,500 in restitution for six victims. Federal District Court Judge Brian M. Morris issued the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Terrance Wilson, 27, entered his guilty plea to distributing crack.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Sixty-six alleged gang members from the Greater Boston area have been charged with federal and state firearm and drug charges, including federal RICO conspiracy charges related to an attempted murder. It is alleged that these individuals were responsible for fueling a gun and drug pipeline across a number of cities and towns in eastern Massachusetts. During the course of the investigation, over 70 firearms were seized.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D (R-TX) today advanced four bills to modernize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for the 21st century. Over the past year the subcommittee’s Disrupter Series has provided an opportunity for the...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Springdale, UT- Zion National Park will issue a Special Use Permit (SUP) to the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah to allow its participants to ride through the park on Aug. 1, 2016, in recognition of the National Park Service (NPS) Centennial anniversary. The Zion - Mount Carmel Highway and Tunnel in the park will be closed for a short period of time early in the morning to accommodate the cyclists with the least amount of disruption to park visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 56-year-old man who pleaded guilty to distributing crack cocaine in the Hazleton area in September 2013, was sentenced to 72 months in prison yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives And Managers Paid Thousands Of Dollars To Doctors In Exchange For Prescribing Of Millions Of Dollars’ Worth Of Fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident was convicted at trial yesterday of distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Keith D. Clarke, age 53, of Delmar, Maryland, was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Leonard P. Stark, United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, to a prison term of two months and full restitution. The defendant pleaded guilty to failure to account for and pay over employment taxes, in December 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Mark your calendars for the free Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park Cultural Festival & BioBlitz, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016!.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ISAAC FORD, age 38, and LACHELSEA KIRKSEY, age 27, both residents of Houston, pled guilty today to a Bill of Information charging possession with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - The U.S. Department of Labor filed two separate federal lawsuits in Houston today alleging that two employers operating in the city illegally fired employees for making safety complaints to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) addresses the media following the historic passage of chemical safety reform
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a new report by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) summarizing historical increases in the federal gasoline excise tax rate, currently set at 18.4 cents per gallon. Analysts estimate that the President’s proposed $10.25-per-barrel oil tax or “fee" would raise gasoline prices by between 20 and 25 cents per gallon.
