News from September 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 22, at 11 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Modernizing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury voted today to acquit Ethan M. Lawas, age 51, of Saratoga Springs, New York, on a charge of assaulting a federal officer.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Inhofe, Senators Applaud Senate Passage of the Coal Combustion Residuals Regulatory Improvement Act
By DOL Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has published new guidelines for approving settlements between employers and employees in whistleblower cases to ensure that settlements do not contain terms that could be interpreted to restrict future whistleblowing. The guidelines, issued...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Over $90 Million in Fraudulent Loans and Hundreds of Homes Stolen from Homeowners.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), ranking member of the Senate EPW Committee, today released a statement praising the Senate passage of S. 2848, the Water Resources Development Act of 2016...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Two of the parks, however, experience very high levels of light pollution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Former resident of Wilton Manors indicted in Fort Lauderdale today for posting threatening communications on Facebook.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing titled “The Department of Energy’s Role in Advancing the National, Economic, and Energy Security of the United States":
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Organ Pipe Cactus encourages all fourth graders to visit the park for free this year as part of the Every Kid in a Park program. The program gives fourth grade students, and those accompanying them, free access to more than 2,000 public lands and waters nationwide for a year.Visit www.EveryKidinaPark.gov to download the pass and get more information.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Irfan Demirtas, 58, a dual Dutch-Turkish citizen, pleaded guilty today to providing material support to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, Domonic McCarns, 41, of Irvine, was sentenced to 14 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller for conspiracy to commit mail fraud for his participation in a nationwide foreclosure-rescue scam, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing titled “The Department of Energy’s Role in Advancing the National, Economic, and Energy Security of the United States":
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Beginning in October of 2016 and continuing through May of 2017, Montezuma Well and Tuzigoot National Monument will be hosting bird walks.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Lake in the Hills, Ill. man appeared today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Iain D. Johnston on wire fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard J. Dates, 71, of Grants, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 120 months in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his conviction on a distribution of child pornography charge. Dates will be required to register as a sex offender after completing his prison sentence. Dates also was ordered to pay $1,000.00 to each of eight victims who requested restitution.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today held a Committee hearing to consider the nominations of Dr. Christopher Brummer and Brian Quintenz to serve as Commissioners of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: Christopher Bohnenkamp Arrested in New York.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 22, at 11 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Modernizing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act."
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), has scheduled a joint hearing for Thursday, Sept. 22, at 10 a.m. in HVC-210 of the Capitol Visitor Center. The hearing is entitled, “Midterm Review and Update on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Motor Vehicles."
