News from April 2014
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Committee on Energy and Commerce has scheduled a markup on Thursday, April 3, 2014, at 4:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider H.R. 1281, “The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act," H.R. 3548, “The Improving Trauma Care Act," H.R. 4080, “The Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act," and H.R. 1528, “The Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act."
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing with General Motors CEO Mary Barra and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Acting Administrator David Friedman to investigate the GM ignition switch recall and why it took over a decade to announce the recall after red flags and warning signs first surfaced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Fredrick Douglas Scott, 29, the Chief Executive Officer of ACI Capital Group LLC (“ACI"), an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC"), was sentenced today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, to 63 months in prison to be followed by three years...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Christopher Devon Barrett, 28, of Hampton, Va., was sentenced today to twenty-five years in prison, and given five years of supervised release, following his convictions for participating in a continuing criminal enterprise and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - John Lytle, 41, a former detective with the Belen Police Department in Belen, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court today to violating an arrestee’s civil rights by assaulting him during the course of an investigative stop and arrest.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Committee on Energy and Commerce has scheduled a markup on Thursday, April 3, 2014, at 4:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider H.R. 1281, “The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act," H.R. 3548, “The Improving Trauma Care Act," H.R. 4080, “The Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act," and H.R. 1528, “The Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today continued the process of seeking public input as part of the review leading to an update of the Communications Act. In December, Upton and Walden...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernandez sentenced Sergey Yefimovich Turzhanskiy, 26, to 30 months in federal prison for possession of an unregistered destructive device. Turshanskiy pleaded guilty to using the device, a Molotov cocktail, in a 2012 attack on a Portland Police Bureau (PPB) patrol car.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing with General Motors CEO Mary Barra and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Acting Administrator David Friedman to investigate the GM ignition switch recall and why it took over a decade to announce the recall after red flags and warning signs first surfaced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that XAVIER CLUFF, 41, of New London, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved S. 1557, the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Support Reauthorization Act. This legislation was championed in the House by Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and authored by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA). This bill, first passed in 1999, provides support to children’s hospitals for their pediatric medical residency programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved S. 1557, the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Support Reauthorization Act. This legislation was championed in the House by Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and authored by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA). This bill, first passed in 1999, provides support to children’s hospitals for their pediatric medical residency programs.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved S. 1557, the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Support Reauthorization Act. This legislation was championed in the House by Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and authored by Senator Bob Casey (D-PA). This bill, first passed in 1999, provides support to children’s hospitals for their pediatric medical residency programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore yesterday sentenced Alexander Lenox to 7 years and 6 months in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft. Lenox pleaded guilty on Dec. 31, 2013.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Trolling for a Solution: Ending Abusive Patent Demand Letters." Witnesses to be announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined his opposition to the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act and called on Senate Democrats to allow votes on job-creating amendments offered by Republicans to improve the underlying bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 8, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Examining the Implementation of the Tobacco Control Act." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Branson, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for making false statements.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Committee on Energy and Commerce has scheduled a markup on Thursday, April 3, 2014, at 4:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider H.R. 1281, “The Newborn Screening Saves Lives Reauthorization Act," H.R. 3548, “The Improving Trauma Care Act," H.R. 4080, “The Trauma Systems and Regionalization of Emergency Care Reauthorization Act," and H.R. 1528, “The Veterinary Medicine Mobility Act."
