News from October 2017
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement on reports Attorney General Jeff Sessions has rolled back protections for transgender workers from discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following last night’s contentious, partisan Committee markup of Republican legislation to reauthorize both the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Community Health Centers and public health laws...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that George Grant, age 44 of Walthill, Nebraska, was convicted by a federal jury of one count of aggravated sexual abuse. Grant is facing up to fifteen years in prison. The case was heard before Chief United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Learning about local history through art is a theme that CLK High School art teacher Susan Rosemurgy often explores with her classes. Recently, her students studied Cubism by focusing on the area’s local mine shafts. Students looked at the work of Picasso and Braque, two artists known for this style...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: [WASHINGTON] - Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of “Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Providence, R.I., woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for her role in a Taunton-based heroin trafficking operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that MICHAEL SCRONIC, a hedge fund manager in Westchester County, was...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held its seventh hearing as part of the committee’s ongoing ‘Powering America ’ series. Today, #SubEnergy examined the role consumer advocates play in electricity markets and explored end-user concerns, including whether...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man who managed an online chat group to share child pornography was arrested and charged in federal court today.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Department of Energy Missions and Management Priorities." Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry will testify as the sole witness.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Department of Energy Missions and Management Priorities." Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry will testify as the sole witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of "Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A North Brunswick, New Jersey, man who transmitted an image of child sexual abuse to an undercover agent was arrested today and charged with distributing child pornography, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. -- The Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Indian Affairs have issued the environmental assessment for the Navajo Generating Station Extension Lease. It is now available for public review and comment. The environmental assessment describes the potential environmental impacts resulting from federal actions that would approve a new lease for the Navajo Generating Station and its related facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a recommitment to Project Safe Neighborhoods, a program first launched in 2001 designed to reduce violent crime across the country. Working with federal, state, and local partners through the Project Safe Neighborhoods program, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa has been prosecuting violent crime and the most serious offenders for the past sixteen years.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent four letters after reports that President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, “re-routed their personal email accounts to computers run by the Trump...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - To ensure the security of airline passengers and the nation’s airports, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has begun to implement new, stronger screening procedures for carry-on items at airports across the country with the procedures being phased in at all Upstate New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of “Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a new report on neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), as required as part of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), which is now law (Public Law No: 114-198 ).
