News from July 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As the U.S. House of Representatives prepares to vote on a contempt of Congress resolution for Attorney General Eric Holder, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today released a new video in which former federal prosecutor Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) breaks down why the Obama...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, in partnership with the Shasta Astronomy Club, will be holding a special star party to view the Perseid Meteor Shower on Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. These very knowledgeable and passionate amateur astronomers will be displaying meteorites and providing powerful telescopes to view what is often considered the most brilliant meteor shower of the year.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a hearing on “RIN Fraud: EPA’s Efforts to Ensure Market Integrity in the Renewable Fuels Program." Today’s hearing examined the Environmental Protection Agency’s management of fraud in the production and...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that rural electric cooperatives and utilities in 15 states will receive loan guarantees to make improvements to generation and transmission facilities and implement smart grid technologies.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today applauded U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack’s efforts to improve federal disaster assistance by cutting red tape and reducing delays for this critical aid.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: The independent Health and Human Services Inspector General is sounding the alarm about potential misuse of taxpayer dollars, highlighting the same concerns Energy and Commerce Committee members have raised that federal dollars funneled through a key Obamacare “slush fund" may have been inappropriately used to finance lobbying campaigns in violation of federal bans on such activity.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: The independent Health and Human Services Inspector General is sounding the alarm about potential misuse of taxpayer dollars, highlighting the same concerns Energy and Commerce Committee members have raised that federal dollars funneled through a key Obamacare “slush fund" may have been inappropriately used to finance lobbying campaigns in violation of federal bans on such activity.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health today examined how to ease the transition of military emergency medical technicians (EMTs) into civilian EMT jobs. The hearing focused on the Veteran Medical Technician Support Act of 2012 (H.R. 4124), authored by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), which would provide demonstration grants to states to assist veterans trained as EMTs in the military transfer into similar civilian medical occupations.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a hearing on “RIN Fraud: EPA’s Efforts to Ensure Market Integrity in the Renewable Fuels Program." Today’s hearing examined the Environmental Protection Agency’s management of fraud in the production and...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: FDA reform a triumph for patients and jobs in Michigan
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - A panel of leading security experts Wednesday described a range of homeland threats the United States will face in the coming years - such as terrorist acts by al Qaeda, its affiliates, Iran, and lone wolves. But the common thread was an attack on the cyber networks and systems that sustain our economy and our standard of living, particularly power grids.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: FDA reform a triumph for patients and jobs in Michigan
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: The independent Health and Human Services Inspector General is sounding the alarm about potential misuse of taxpayer dollars, highlighting the same concerns Energy and Commerce Committee members have raised that federal dollars funneled through a key Obamacare “slush fund" may have been inappropriately used to finance lobbying campaigns in violation of federal bans on such activity.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations today held a hearing on “RIN Fraud: EPA’s Efforts to Ensure Market Integrity in the Renewable Fuels Program." Today’s hearing examined the Environmental Protection Agency’s management of fraud in the production and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health today examined how to ease the transition of military emergency medical technicians (EMTs) into civilian EMT jobs. The hearing focused on the Veteran Medical Technician Support Act of 2012 (H.R. 4124), authored by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), which would provide demonstration grants to states to assist veterans trained as EMTs in the military transfer into similar civilian medical occupations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: FDA reform a triumph for patients and jobs in Michigan
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health today examined how to ease the transition of military emergency medical technicians (EMTs) into civilian EMT jobs. The hearing focused on the Veteran Medical Technician Support Act of 2012 (H.R. 4124), authored by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Rep. Lois Capps (D-CA), which would provide demonstration grants to states to assist veterans trained as EMTs in the military transfer into similar civilian medical occupations.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 11, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after the U.S. House of Representatives approved the Repeal of ObamaCare Act (H.R. 6079) with bipartisan support...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: A Newport News, Va., federal grand jury has indicted Jeffrey Charles for conspiring with his daughter and son-in-law to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Charles is charged with one count of conspiracy, three counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns and one count of filing a false tax return. The court has not yet set a trial date.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON — Two individuals and three corporations were sentenced in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan by Judge George B. Daniels today to serve time in prison and to pay criminal fines for their participation in an eight-year conspiracy involving kickbacks in excess of $2.3 million to defraud New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH), the Department of Justice announced. The individuals and the corporations were convicted after a four-week trial in February 2012.
