News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 43-year-old Kimball nurse was sentenced for fraudulently obtaining a controlled substance, namely hydromorphone hydrochloride, commonly sold as Dilaudid. United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced Blake Daniel Zenner to 24 months in federal...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Thank you Mr. Chairman. The Social Security Disability Trust Fund belongs to the workers who paid into it, so decisions about whether applicants meet the strict criteria for benefits need to be made very carefully and as consistently as possible. This is not always easy. Work-ending disability or illness...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Keith “Kiki" Ruther, 34, of Rochester, who was convicted of conspiring to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 151 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) urged the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, known simply as the Innovation Center, to ramp up efforts to develop new ways of improving health care quality and lowering costs.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved legislation requiring the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to cease all activity requiring a three member quorum until the legal crisis surrounding the board is appropriately resolved. Introduced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Albany, New York - CRAIG ACTON, age 44, of Bennington Vermont, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Gary L. Sharpe to 2 years of probation and 50 hours of community service for his fraudulent use of a United States Department of Agriculture inspection legend on meat products that he sold commercially, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. ACTON previously entered a guilty plea on Aug. 23, 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Nearly three years ago, on March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law health care reforms that have changed the landscape of our nation’s health care system. Since the law’s passage, the Energy and Commerce Committee has conducted ongoing oversight to monitor the law’s consequences...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Prior Felon Brandished Pistol at 17-Year-Old and Threatened to Kill Her.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced MAJOR RAY BROWN, 30, to 132 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Nearly three years ago, on March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law health care reforms that have changed the landscape of our nation’s health care system. Since the law’s passage, the Energy and Commerce Committee has conducted ongoing oversight to monitor the law’s consequences...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Launching a bipartisan review of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released its first in a series of white papers that will examine a number of issues emerging with the current system and solicit input from interested stakeholders. Energy...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee passed, the “Responsible Helium Administration and Stewardship Act", with a bipartisan amendment, by a voice vote. The bipartisan legislation, introduced by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Ranking...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held the second hearing of a three-part series on “Health Information Technologies." Members today focused on how innovative medical technologies can benefit American patients and discussed what steps need to be taken...
By State Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has convened a hearing on the crisis is Syria.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statements after FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell announced his intention to leave the Commission...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: - Diverted income to “shell" companies to hide assets and employees from the Internal Revenue Service.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statements after FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell announced his intention to leave the Commission...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Bill Would Ensure Continued Supply of Helium and Deliver Fair Return for American Taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Joshua P. Blakenship, age 25, of Solomons, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for producing child pornography. Judge Titus ordered that upon his release from prison, Blakenship must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
