News from June 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record at a Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Markup on H.R. ___, the “FTC Process and Transparency Reform Act of 2016;" H.R. 5111, the “Consumer Review Fairness Act;" H.R. 5092, the “Reinforcing American Made Products Act;" and H.R. 5104, the “Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act."
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) California Desert District is soliciting nominations from the public for four members of its California Desert Advisory Council to serve three-year terms. The council's 15 members provide advice and recommendations to the BLM on the management of over 10 million acres of public lands in eight counties of Southern California.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record at a Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Markup on H.R. ___, the “FTC Process and Transparency Reform Act of 2016;" H.R. 5111, the “Consumer Review Fairness Act;" H.R. 5092, the “Reinforcing American Made Products Act;" and H.R. 5104, the “Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Lawsuit Alleges That the Department Discriminated Against Black Teachers Who Worked at the School and Retaliated Against an Assistant Principal Who Spoke Out Against the Discrimination.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Statement of Ranking Member Barbara Boxer
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: Beth Drake (803) 929-3000.
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Iberia Parish Sheriff Louis Ackal, Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Savoy and former Captain Mark Frederick were charged in a superseding indictment with civil rights violations arising out of the beatings of two men.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. B U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees sentenced yesterday Tony Luke Brewer, 25, of Hays, N.C. to 20 years in prison on charges of possession and production of child pornography, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Voorhees also ordered the defendant to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working with commercial airlines and pilots’ unions to improve mental health evaluations, and encourage voluntary reporting of pilot mental health issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Anticompetitive Restrictions Bar Insurers from Steering Patients to Lower-Cost Competing Providers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORDAN ANATE, also known as “Pills" and “Che Pills," 25, most recently of the Bronx, N.Y., pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to one count of sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: A California resident was convicted by a Southern District of Florida jury of conspiring to export and cause the export to the People’s Republic of China of fighter jet engines, an unmanned aerial vehicle, commonly known as a drone, and related technical data, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to 30 years in prison for sexually exploiting a 5-year-old child and possessing and distributing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN A. BARILE, 52, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 71 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for arson, insurance fraud, gambling and extortion offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Parking reservations in Yosemite Valley available for two upcoming weekends.
By DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: In Del Rio this afternoon, 36-year-old Francisco Balderas (aka “Frank", “El Profe") was sentenced to 220 months in federal prison for his role in a cocaine distribution conspiracy operating in the Eagle Pass, TX, area, stated United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: The National Park Service is revising the Fire Management Plan for Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, located in Georgia and Tennessee.Park staff is considering the use of prescribed fire as a possible tool to maintain cultural landscapes, to reduce fuel loads, and...
