News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two former officers of a New Mexico-based defense contracting firm pleaded guilty on Feb. 26, 2016, to criminal charges arising out of their involvement in a scheme to solicit and accept kickbacks in return for favorable treatment in awarding subcontracts relating to wartime rebuilding...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: The work of the Detroit One partnership of local, state and federal law enforcement resulted in the indictment today of 12 more members of Seven Mile Bloods street gang, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the nine teams chosen as finalists in the Wave Energy Prize, which hail from California, Maine, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Washington. The Prize is a 20-month design-build-test competition that aims to double the energy captured from...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Former Fugitive Pleads Guilty in Florida Multimillion-Dollar Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In a rare move, the Obama Administration today officially backed Energy and Commerce Committee legislation to strengthen Medicaid for the most vulnerable. The announcement comes on the eve of tomorrow’s House vote on important reforms to increase access beyond the emergency room and reduce fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Federal Women’s Leadership Initiative set to “RAISE THE BAR" in April 2016, in recognition of National Volunteer Month.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, released the following opening statement - as prepared for delivery - following today’s Committee markup of Chairman Roberts’ biotechnology labeling bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates, Assistant Attorney General Karol V. Mason of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP), and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite today announced that New Orleans, Louisiana, St. Louis, Missouri, and Milwaukee will join ten existing sites which have adopted crime-fighting...
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Inspector General: I have always been confident in the impartiality and integrity with which the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) carries out its duties. But I am troubled by today’s report alleging improprieties in investigations related to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: RED BLUFF, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will hold an open house/public meeting to solicit input on the Draft Coleman National Fish Hatchery (CNFH) Adaptive Management Plan (AMP).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a markup to consider eight pieces of legislation along with three postal naming bills. The following actions were taken by the Committee...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Statement of. Ranking Member, Subcommittee on economic development, public buildings and emergency management. house transportation and infrastructure committee. “Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Reducing Federal Office Space Costs". March 1, 2016. Welcome to today’s hearing. I am pleased to see Minority Whip...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the guilty plea of a Sugar Grove, Virginia woman on an illegal weapons charge.
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will meet TOMORROW, Wednesday, March 2 at 9:15 a.m. to consider...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that Shad James Huston, 40, of Havre, Montana, was sentenced on Feb. 29, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris. Huston was sentenced to 41 months of prison for Bribery, False Claims Act Conspiracy, and failure to file Currency Transaction Reports as required by law. In addition, the district court ordered Huston to pay $500,000 in restitution.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: In advance of their first idea forum today, the chairs of the Task Force on Reducing Regulatory Burdens released their mission statement. This mission statement, laying out the goals of the task force, marks the next step in the development of a bold, pro-growth agenda that Republicans will present to the country in the coming months.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Mills, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau Of Reclamation in Mills, Wyo., has scheduled a Boysen Reservoir Water Information Meeting in Worland, Wyo., according to Carlie Ronca, Wyoming Area Manager.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing examining a discussion draft of a bill to reauthorize the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA) pipeline safety program.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the financing and delivery of long-term care in the United States. In 2014 alone, roughly $340 billion was spent on long-term care, amounting to more than 13 percent of the almost $2.6 trillion spent on personal health expenditures.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Sarah J. Hopkins, 28, Newton, Kan. was charged with one count of knowingly transferring a firearm to a convicted felon. The crime is alleged to have occurred on July 30, 2015 in Harvey County, Kan.
