News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Prosecution is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Bicameral, Bipartisan Leaders Finalizing TSCA Reform Legislation
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: FBI Releases Photos of Atlanta Armored Car Robbers and Offers Combined Reward of Up to $20,000.
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-OH). Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. Hearing on “A Review of Recently Completed United States Army Corps of Engineers Chief’s Reports". May 17, 2016. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Two years after enactment of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate leaders today issued the following statement announcing that they are finalizing TSCA reform legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: On May 16, 2016, Tommy T. Langston, a/k/a "G," 38, of Marion, was sentenced for a crack cocaine offense, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Washington D.C. - U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today introduced a resolution designating May 15 to May 21, 2016, as National Public Works Week. The resolution encourages the public to recognize and celebrate the important contributions that individuals make every day to improve the public works infrastructure of the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) today said they will oppose the current framework of legislation to update chemical safety laws unless significant changes are made. Last year, Pallone...
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Despite the Obama administration’s continued failure to provide basic information into the Transitional Reinsurance Program, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are offering a final opportunity to cooperate. The committee has been investigating the administration’s illegal diversion...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Roberta L. Rivers, age 57, of South Glens Falls, New York pled guilty today to stealing $112,000 in benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Warwick, New York, man was convicted by a federal jury today of coercing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct and traveling from New York to Passaic County, New Jersey, to have sexual intercourse with another minor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that William Jackson Moates, Jr., age 49, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Mark Ford for arraignment on a 25 count Indictment charging him with Money Laundering, Wire Fraud, Theft Concerning a Program Receiving Federal Funds, Mail Fraud, Bank Fraud, and Theft or Embezzlement from Employee Benefit Plan.
By EPA Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks at a Health Subcommittee Hearing on the Medicare Program Part B Drug Payment Model...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of structuring financial transactions, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA), ranking member of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, released the following statements after the...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Step back in time to 1916 during this year’s Port Oneida Fair (Fair) to help celebrate the 100th birthday of the National Park Service. History comes alive at six historic sites during the annual Fair at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore), Friday and Saturday, August 12-13, 2016...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Cape Cod National Seashore will once again offer its Junior Lifeguard Program for boys and girls ages 13 to 17 this summer. The purpose of the program is to promote water safety and provide job-specific training on Cape Cod through area youth. Past junior lifeguards currently work as lifeguards for Cape Cod National Seashore and several towns on Cape Cod.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced a legislative hearing on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 10:10 AM in 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Legislative Hearing on 17 FTC Bills."
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - A North Carolina man pled guilty today to a federal drug conspiracy charge, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks at a Health Subcommittee Hearing on the Medicare Program Part B Drug Payment Model...
