News from June 2016
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combatting Superbugs: U.S. Public Health Responses to Antibiotic Resistance." The hearing comes after headlines last week declared, “The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S."
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Thirty wild horses, two of them halter gentled, and 10 burros will be offered for adoption Saturday and Sunday, June 11 and 12, at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds Chris Beck Arena, 1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa.
By State Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a wide-ranging foreign policy discussion at the American Jewish Committee’s annual Global Forum in Washington yesterday, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a leading opponent of the administration’s nuclear deal with Iran, stressed the importance of U.S. global leadership and reiterated his opposition to the nuclear deal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Larry Dwayne Diggs, age 24, also known as "Montana" and "Montie," of Muskegon, Michigan was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison for drug, firearm, and witness tampering offenses, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell imposed a 3-year term of supervised release that will commence once Diggs is released from imprisonment.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Mark Simon, 68, of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, fell to his death from a bluff between Sand Beach and Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park on Monday, June 6. Mr. Simon was a summer resident of Southwest Harbor, Maine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: The Record of Decision (ROD) approving the Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park Abbreviated Final General Management Plan/Wilderness Study/Environmental Impact Statement (Final GMP/WS/EIS) was signed into approval on May 24, 2016. This plan provides long-term management guidance about the preservation and use of this national treasure, UNESCO World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretaries Lew, Kerry, Pritzker, and Ambassador Froman...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combatting Superbugs: U.S. Public Health Responses to Antibiotic Resistance." The hearing comes after headlines last week declared, “The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), has scheduled a full committee markup on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, to consider several bills including landmark mental health legislation. Details on the time and location will be posted here, as they become...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
Release: Petersburg, VA, June 7, 2016 - Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Education Secretary John B. King, Jr. joined students and other stakeholders at Robert E. Lee Elementary School in Petersburg, Virginia to celebrate the start of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) summer meal programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Lynch, Kentucky Chief of Police Arrested on Drug and Weapon Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Reward Offered for Information in Armed Robbery of Armored Vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees handed down yesterday lengthy prison terms to three individuals involved in a crack cocaine conspiracy, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. John Fitzgerald “Pumpy" Michaux, 31, of Hickory...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “FCC Overreach: Examining the Proposed Privacy Rules."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is providing career development opportunities for 11 students this summer through two internship programs. On June 1, 2016, the 15th consecutive year of the College Student Internship Program kicked off at DOE’s Sandia National Laboratories...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Sacramento Moon Morales, 34, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced yesterday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve 126 months in federal prison and 20 years of supervised release, following his guilty plea in January 2016 to an indictment charging one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senate and House Agriculture Committee leadership today announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) granted their request for an extension of the public comment period for the agency’s proposed rule regarding revised organic livestock and poultry production standards.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup on H.R. 3299, the “Strengthening Public Health Emergency Response Act of 2015," and H.R. 291, the “Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act of 2015."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks at a Health Subcommittee markup on H.R. 3299, the “Strengthening Public Health Emergency Response Act of 2015," and H.R. 291, the “Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act of 2015."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “FCC Overreach: Examining the Proposed Privacy Rules."
