News from September 2016
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Dear Colleague: I strongly urge you to vote “no" on the Graves Amendment (#10) to H.R. 5303, the “Water Resources Development Act of 2016", which waives the prevailing wage protections provided by the Davis-Bacon Act for water resources projects carried out by non-Federal interests. This amendment...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously amended and approved S. 253, the Communications Act Update Act of 2016. The bill contains eight Energy and Commerce Committee bills that have previously passed the House or have unanimously passed the committee. S. 253 now heads back to the Senate for final consideration.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on bioresearch labs and the inactivation of dangerous pathogens. Taking center stage at the hearing was a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), which...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Mr. Speaker, this bill before us today is yet another attempt to undermine the Affordable Care Act, plain and simple. In fact, it is now the 65th such attempt by Republicans since the ACA was signed into law.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously amended and approved S. 253, the Communications Act Update Act of 2016. The bill contains eight Energy and Commerce Committee bills that have previously passed the House or have unanimously passed the committee. S. 253 now heads back to the Senate for final consideration.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Effective 12:01 am on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, fire restrictions will be lifted for the State of Utah, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Park Service (NPS) on lands in Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan counties. Monsoon moisture has moderated wildfire behavior, growth and indices; green up of vegetation is occurring in many areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Shannon Bragdon, 32, of Portland, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to attempting to acquire oxycodone by deception and health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Daniel Keith Snyder, 51, of Hope, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday for manufacturing counterfeit obligations, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Snyder to twelve months and one day, to be followed by three months home confinement...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on bioresearch labs and the inactivation of dangerous pathogens. Taking center stage at the hearing was a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO), which...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Tonopah, Nev - The Bureau of Land Management’s Tonopah Field Office (TFO) hosted a special Stone Cabin Adoption Event on Sunday, September 25 at the Tonopah Fairgrounds. Twenty recently gathered weanlings and yearlings were hand selected and offered to the public for adoption with five successful in...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Lancaster man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for criminal copyright infringement for illegally posting screener versions of two movies - “The Revenant" and “The Peanuts Movie" - to a publicly accessible website. As a result of the illegal upload, “The Revenant" was available...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA ‐ United States Attorney Walt Green announced that Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson has sentenced LARRY W. KELLY, JR., age 37, of Baker, Louisiana, to serve 262 months in federal prison, after a jury convicted him of possessing a firearm and ammunition while a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Alicia O'Brien, 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by Indictment with obtaining prescription drugs by fraud announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Effective 12:01 am on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, fire restrictions will be lifted for the State of Utah, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and National Park Service (NPS) on lands in Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan counties. Monsoon moisture has moderated wildfire behavior, growth and indices; green up of vegetation is occurring in many areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Morgan City woman was sentenced Monday to 25 months in prison for her role in a scheme to use stolen identities to file false tax returns and pocket refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 21-year-old local man has been ordered to federal prison for kidnapping a six-year-old girl from her Corpus Christi home and planning to take her to Arizona, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Austin Carlin, of Corpus Christi, pleaded guilty June 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Affirms USDA's Commitment to Native Americans WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2016 – At the 8th Tribal Nations Conference hosted today by President Barack Obama in Washington, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack underscored the Administration's support for tribal communities with $9 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: More Than $67 Million in Grants to Support Local Law Enforcement Efforts Also Announced Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today announced the addition of two cities—Jackson, Mississippi, and Nashville, Tennessee—to the Justice Department’s Violence Reduction Network (VRN), providing federal resources and funding to help reduce violence in these newly-partnered sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today announced awards totaling over $20 million to 106 state, city, tribal and municipal law enforcement agencies to establish and enhance law enforcement body-worn camera programs across the United States.
