News from July 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: RIDGECREST, Calif. - Young mustang geldings, aged 3 to 5, will be available for adoption, when the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) holds a special open house at the Ridgecrest Wild Horse and Burro Corrals, Thursday, Aug. 10, to Saturday, August 12. The corrals are located at 3647-A Randsburg Wash Road, Ridgecrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Houston, Texas, has been sentenced in federal court to 15 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to import prescription drugs, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed two energy bills that seek to advance the nation’s energy infrastructure through targeted reforms to the federal government’s permitting and siting policies for oil and natural gas pipelines. Yesterday, the House advanced four additional committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that two Port Graham, Alaska, residents have been federally charged related to their causing the United States Coast Guard to attempt to save life and property when no help was needed.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a legislative hearing on S. 1514 , the Hunting Heritage and Environmental Legacy Preservation (HELP) for Wildlife Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: NOTE TO CORRESPONDENTS. July 19, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau is now accepting applications for approximately 175 temporary positions that will support the address canvassing operation for the 2018 End-to-End Census Test in Pierce County, Wash. Address canvassing will allow the Census Bureau the opportunity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - John Richard Blazer, 71, of Marion, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 33 months in prison for orchestrating multiple investment fraud schemes. Blazer pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in December 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Brunswick, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding a bank by fraudulently using a federally-backed $2 million small business loan on personal expenses, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As today’s 10:00 a.m. House Budget Committee markup of the House Republican fiscal year 2018 budget proposal gets underway, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) questioned Republican estimates of revenue generated by opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and touted clean alternative energy development as a more popular and more economic option.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed two energy bills that seek to advance the nation’s energy infrastructure through targeted reforms to the federal government’s permitting and siting policies for oil and natural gas pipelines. Yesterday, the House advanced four additional committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging SALVADOR MINA-GUZMAN, age 40, of Mexico with Illegal Reentry of a Deported Alien. He was apprehended in Wake County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - 17 members and associates of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, have been charged with racketeering, 12 murders, attempted murders, assaults, obstruction of justice, arson, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, and related firearms and conspiracy charges relating to the gang’s activities...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: To accommodate a dust abatement application, a brief travel closure will be in place for about 48 hours, beginning 4 a.m. Tuesday, July 25, on the unpaved section of the Moose-Wilson Road in Grand Teton National Park. The road will reopen by 8 a.m. Thursday, July 27.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today voted to support the nomination of David Pekoske to lead the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). McCaskill has supported all five of President Trump’s nominees to the Department of Homeland Security that have come before the Committee.
By State Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Chairman Jeff Duncan (SC-03) and Ranking Member Albio Sires (NJ-08) of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (CA-39) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (NY-16), and Chairwoman Emeritus Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27), along with over 20 Members...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Defendant Admits to Orchestrating Sham Lawsuits to Create the Appearance that Mortgages Were Invalidated.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today held a markup to advance groundbreaking bipartisan self-driving legislation that will prioritize safety while encouraging innovation. This draft legislation passed out of the subcommittee by voice vote.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, July 26, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Extension of Special Needs Plans."
By DOE Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today held a markup to advance groundbreaking bipartisan self-driving legislation that will prioritize safety while encouraging innovation. This draft legislation passed out of the subcommittee by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, July 26, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Extension of Special Needs Plans."
