News from April 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 1770, the Data Security and Breach Notification Act, by a vote of 29 to 20. The bill provides a much-needed solution to address the growing problem of cyber crimes, establishing a nationwide safety regime for data protection and breach notification. Learn more about the bill HERE.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 15, 2015 - Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-04), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Lands made the following opening statement at today's oversight hearing entitled "Federal Land Acquisition and its Impacts on Communities and the Environment.".
By USDA Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is asking dairy producer organizations and other interested parties to nominate candidates to serve on the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board. Nominations must be submitted by May 15, 2015. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will appoint 12 individuals to serve on the board. The appointees will replace board members whose terms expire on Oct. 31, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement praising the passage of H.R.2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, a bipartisan bill that permanently repeals and replaces the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), also known as the “Doc Fix", with an improved payment system based on legislation that was advanced by the Finance Committee in 2013...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 1770, the Data Security and Breach Notification Act, by a vote of 29 to 20. The bill provides a much-needed solution to address the growing problem of cyber crimes, establishing a nationwide safety regime for data protection and breach notification. Learn more about the bill HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of ELISEO ORTIZ, 49, STACEY JEAN BERGHAMMER, 33, and SHANNON LEE TROLLEN, 37, for conspiring to file false state and federal tax returns and claim tax refunds. The three defendants are charged with conspiracy to file false claims for income tax refunds. ORTIZ and BERGHAMMER are also charged with filing false claims for income tax refunds, and ORTIZ is additionally charged with procuring a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. -Two Essex County, New Jersey, men were each sentenced to 130 months in prison for robbing a Target Store in Union, New Jersey, on “Black Friday" in November 2012, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Charges Stem from Scheme to Defraud Insurance Companies, Department of Education.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Owen R. Adair, 23, of Vinalhaven, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to a charge of making a false distress message to the United States Coast Guard.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Mark Wesley Lambert, 39, of Elkins, was convicted in federal court of marijuana trafficking in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: The FAA is working with its aviation security partners in the DC area to investigate an incident involving an aircraft that landed on the west lawn of the Capitol this afternoon. The pilot was not in contact with FAA air traffic controllers and the FAA did not authorize him to enter restricted airspace. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today on charges related to producing child pornography. Donald T. Paris, Jr., 28, of Kansas City, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Elanda Bell has been sentenced in federal court to 34 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced two critical pieces of bipartisan legislation protecting jobs and the environment.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Roskam Blasts DOJ Decision on Lerner Contempt Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A previously deported felon from Mexico pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to conspiracy to transport illegal aliens and unlawful re-entry into the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Thank you Mr. Chairman. I want to congratulate Chairman Dent on making it through his first hearing cycle as Chairman and on his first subcommittee markup. I would like to thank you for the cooperative tone you set from day one. I believe the Chairman has worked very hard to get us to this point. I pleased...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Kelsey Unruh, a Macon, Miss. resident, this week completed a semester-long internship in office of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, under Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings introduced the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act [H.R. 1777]. This legislation updates the Former President’s Act of 1958, which governs annual pension payments and allowances for former U.S. Presidents and surviving spouses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jesse David Kuchta, age 28, of Manchester, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to production and possession of child pornography.
