News from September 2016
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a markup to consider five bipartisan bills to advance the public health. All five bills passed by voice vote and will now advance to the full committee.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a markup to consider five bipartisan bills to advance the public health. All five bills passed by voice vote and will now advance to the full committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Daniel Hull, 44 of Niagara Falls, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, and a fine of $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management has lifted all fire restrictions on public land within Fremont County. The restrictions have been rescinded in coordination with the county, State of Wyoming, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Fossil Butte National Monument encourages all fourth graders to visit the park 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 Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -A National Park Service Search and Rescue crew was flown into the Canyon early this morning to begin the search for missing river guide, Joshua Tourjee. Tourjee was reported missing on September 12 by his river trip after failing to return to camp the previous evening.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX) and House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy requesting information related to the legality, cost, and feasibility...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former accounting technician for the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas was indicted Tuesday on a federal charge of embezzling tribal funds, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: U.S. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today led a letter signed by every Democratic member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee requesting that U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General Loretta Lynch investigate allegations of bribery and other criminal misconduct concerning the $25,000 donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today joined U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers to announce the launch of trade enforcement action against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces events in observance of the National Heroin & Opioid Awareness Week, September 19-23, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX) and House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-OH) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy requesting information related to the legality, cost, and feasibility...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 13, 2016 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that up to $5 million in grant funds is available to help schools create or strengthen farm to school programs this school year. Administered by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, these annual, competitive grants will help further USDA efforts to increase locally sourced foods in America’s school meals.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today released a new report chronicling the overwhelming failures of Obamacare’s CO-OP program. The report entitled, “Implementing Obamacare: A Review of CMS’ Management of the Failed CO-OP Program," was released ahead of Wednesday’s hearing examining the committee’s oversight and the future outlook of the health care law.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - Two residents of Erie County, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: STATESVILLE, NC - U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees sentenced yesterday Eduardo Trejo-Munoz, a/k/a “Lalo," 24, of Hickory, N.C. to 262 months in prison and five years of supervised release for trafficking high purity crystal methamphetamine worth over $5 million, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: This Thursday, Sept. 15, the Subcommittee on Energy and Power will be joined by Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz for a hearing on DOE’s role in America’s national, economic, and energy security. Leading up to the hearing, Moniz on Tuesday joined committee member Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Daniel Quinn, 48, of Nashua, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to armed bank robbery, reports United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: An office manager of a small dental practice in Mason City, Iowa who stole nearly $500,000 from her employer over the course of almost a decade pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
