News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, Geraldo Elainor, a member of the violent Brooklyn street gang the “Six Tre Outlaw Gangsta Disciples Folk Nation," also known as the “Folk Nation," pleaded guilty to racketeering, including the 2008 murder of Anthony Thomas as a predicate racketeering act, and discharge of a firearm in...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 3, 2014 - Today at a Full Committee hearing, Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell that the Department’s programs and activities support millions of jobs and generate billions in revenue. While this is true, the Secretary failed to acknowledge the millions of jobs...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced four bipartisan public health bills that would help newborns, trauma patients, and veterinarians. The committee approved H.R. 1281, “The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act," H.R. 3548, “The Improving Trauma Care Act," ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: The rights of crime victims will be commemorated during the week of April 6-12 by the U.S. Department of Justice and in communities throughout the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: A man who received child pornography was sentenced today to sixteen years in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner regarding the administration’s proposed changes to the Medicare Part D program. Members of the committee, along with several other bipartisan lawmakers...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner regarding the administration’s proposed changes to the Medicare Part D program. Members of the committee, along with several other bipartisan lawmakers...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz to review the president’s proposed FY2015 budget for the Department of Energy. Members questioned Secretary Moniz over the department’s policy priorities and expressed concern over the agency’s failure to produce a national energy policy that reflects today’s energy realities.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are honoring 127 organizations for their commitment to protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency. Recipients of the 2014 Energy Star Partner of the Year Award include Des Moines Public School District; KB Home; Meritage Homes Corporation; PepsiCo., Inc.; Sears Holdings Corporation; and Samsung.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, legislation introduced by committee member Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), marking the tenth Energy and Commerce Committee public health bill to become law in the 113th Congress. This law will redirect wasteful spending on political conventions to important pediatric research.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced four bipartisan public health bills that would help newborns, trauma patients, and veterinarians. The committee approved H.R. 1281, “The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act," H.R. 3548, “The Improving Trauma Care Act," ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner regarding the administration’s proposed changes to the Medicare Part D program. Members of the committee, along with several other bipartisan lawmakers...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: ATF, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and Euless Police Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced four bipartisan public health bills that would help newborns, trauma patients, and veterinarians. The committee approved H.R. 1281, “The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act," H.R. 3548, “The Improving Trauma Care Act," ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ramiro R. Flores, 60, of Santa Fe, N.M., pleaded guilty today to embezzling $42,856 from San Ildefonso Pueblo under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, legislation introduced by committee member Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), marking the tenth Energy and Commerce Committee public health bill to become law in the 113th Congress. This law will redirect wasteful spending on political conventions to important pediatric research.
By State Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Cuba Twitter program.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)-Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee-and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced legislation that would improve coordination between federal agencies that oversee the for-profit college industry. Through...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - A former hospital anesthesiologist was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to five years in prison and three years of supervised release for distribution of oxycodone. Hieu Tu Le, 40, of Snohomish, Washington, a medical doctor licensed in Washington State since 2004, operated...
