News from September 2016
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host an informational meeting to present draft alternatives regarding the management of recreational target shooting on the Sonoran Desert National Monument (SDNM) at a public meeting in Phoenix.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Oyster Bay, NY: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, Fire Island National Seashore, Long Island National Wildlife Refuge Complex managed by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and New York State Parks encourages all fourth graders to visit Long Island Public Lands for free or at a reduced rate this year...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Mr. Chairman - Thank you for holding this hearing. I am pleased to have two such distinguished witnesses before us.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA--A Cedar Rapids man who admitted filing a fraudulent income tax return was sentenced yesterday to 8-months imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: H.R. 3438, the “Require Evaluation before Implementing Executive Wishlists Act of 2016," would stay the enforcement of any rule imposing an annual cost to the economy in excess of $1 billion pending judicial review.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Shuster and Barletta Opening Statements. Full Committee Hearing on “An Examination of FEMA's Limited Role in Local Land Use Development Decisions". Sept. 21, 2016. (Remarks as Prepared). Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Today’s hearing will focus on two important...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Expanded Access to Investigational Therapies."
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - The Select Investigative Panel today approved a report recommending that StemExpress and its Chief Executive Officer, Catherine Spears Dyer, be held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas. Chairman Marsha Blackburn issued the following statement after the Panel passed the report by a vote of 8-0...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Marco Saucedo, 45, of Cactus, Texas, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 48 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in June 2016 to one count of unlawful use of a communications facility, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) requesting that he immediately intervene to prevent the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives from considering a resolution and draft report today that charges StemExpress, as well as its founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cate Dyer, with criminal contempt.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for conspiring to defraud 15 victims of more than $3 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Expanded Access to Investigational Therapies."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for conspiring to defraud 15 victims of more than $3 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following remarks in the House of Representatives supporting his legislation, the STAND for Ukraine Act (H.R.5094 ). The bill passed unanimously in the House...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - The Select Investigative Panel today approved a report recommending that StemExpress and its Chief Executive Officer, Catherine Spears Dyer, be held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with lawfully issued subpoenas. Chairman Marsha Blackburn issued the following statement after the Panel passed the report by a vote of 8-0...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), and Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) today introduced the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A former Nevada realtor who owned at least 12 rental properties in Nevada and Texas and filed multiple bankruptcy petitions to avoid paying the mortgages, has been sentenced to 11 months in prison, two years of supervised release, and ordered to pay a fine of $10,000 and restitution of $83,000, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a markup to consider eight bipartisan bills, six of which originated in the Health Subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Patricia Pauline Driscoll, the former executive director of the Armed Forces Foundation, was indicted today on federal charges stemming from a scheme in which she allegedly stole from the non-profit charity, defrauded donors, and lied to the Internal Revenue Service and the public about her salary and benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The former assistant property manager of Roxse Homes, a subsidized housing development in Boston, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for his role in a scheme to rent apartments at the housing development to individuals who were not qualified in exchange for cash bribes.
