News from July 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 14, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare Part D: Measures Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: HEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A diverse group of community leaders from across the Ohio Valley joined United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, today to highlight the progress of the United States Attorney’s Addiction Action Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute crack cocaine was sentenced July 8, 2015, to more than five years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives is set to vote on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, later this week. H.R. 6 is a nonpartisan bill originating from the Energy and Commerce Committee’s 21st Century Cures initiative, launched over a year ago. The effort has seen continued support from patients, leading health care experts, and thought leaders across the country and from both sides of the aisle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Evan Anthony Peek-Austin, age 39, of Landover, Maryland, to 11 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to commit the robbery of a drug dealer, for using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and for carjacking.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 14, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare Part D: Measures Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives is set to vote on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, later this week. H.R. 6 is a nonpartisan bill originating from the Energy and Commerce Committee’s 21st Century Cures initiative, launched over a year ago. The effort has seen continued support from patients, leading health care experts, and thought leaders across the country and from both sides of the aisle.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees this week demanded responses from Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew regarding payments the administration has made to insurance companies to subsidize cost-sharing under the health care law after the administration requested - but did not receive from Congress - an appropriation of funding.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce subcommittees on Health and Communications and Technology today held hearings continuing longstanding work to strengthen Medicaid and protect the future of the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Commercial Cultivation and Distribution of Marijuana Violates Federal Law, California’s Compassionate Use Act, and Locally Enacted Marijuana Regulations.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - “Avian influenza poses a major threat to both our economy because of its potential impact on the poultry industry and, in the long-term, to public health," Chairman Johnson said in his written opening statement for a hearing Wednesday held by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees this week demanded responses from Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew regarding payments the administration has made to insurance companies to subsidize cost-sharing under the health care law after the administration requested - but did not receive from Congress - an appropriation of funding.
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives in support of a measure he introduced calling on the Chinese government to negotiate with Tibet’s leaders without preconditions and marking the 80th birthday of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama (H.Res.337). The resolution passed the House unanimously.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today applauded the Treasury Department and IRS for issuing guidance that would effectively end so-called ‘basket options,’ which are financial arrangements used to avoid billions of dollars in capital gains taxes...
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10:00 a.m., as the Obama Administration works to complete a final nuclear deal with Iran, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing entitled, “Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran." The hearing is the first in a series of hearings the Committee will convene to examine the Obama Administration’s anticipated nuclear agreement with Iran.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees this week demanded responses from Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew regarding payments the administration has made to insurance companies to subsidize cost-sharing under the health care law after the administration requested - but did not receive from Congress - an appropriation of funding.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks on the Senate floor, opposing efforts to amend the Every Child Achieves Act to use federal education funds for private school vouchers. In her speech, Murray...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce subcommittees on Health and Communications and Technology today held hearings continuing longstanding work to strengthen Medicaid and protect the future of the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two New Jersey men were convicted today for their roles in a large-scale conspiracy to ship stolen luxury cars to Hong Kong and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. -The former chief mate of the ocean cargo vessel M/V Murcia Carrier was sentenced today to three months in prison for failing to report the hydraulic oil he ordered dumped into the ocean, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden for the U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division announced.
