News from June 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its longstanding efforts to improve safety at some of the nation’s most critical nuclear sites, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today released a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) with important new findings about problems within the...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), have scheduled a joint hearing for Tuesday, June 16 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “EPA’s Proposed Ozone Rule: Potential Impacts on Manufacturing."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - Christopher Breejen was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $117,439.50 in restitution for criminal copyright infringement, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Homeland Security Investigations Acting Special Agent in Charge, Tatum King.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Four defendants who have been convicted for their respective roles in a marijuana distribution conspiracy have been sentenced this week, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved legislation to protect the future of the Internet. Last year, the administration asked the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to convene a multistakeholder...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below following the Committee's passage of a bill introduced by Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), S. 1140. The legislation, which passed on a party line vote ...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently voted 51-0 approving H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. This nonpartisan legislation is a product of more than a year of working with patients, advocates, researchers, innovators, and health care professionals to bring our nation’s laws...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - While spring showers and early summer rains have helped alleviate the wildland fire danger in southwest Colorado, the Bureau of Land Management Tres Rios Field Office is posting a fire prevention order at the Animas City Mountain and Grand View Special Recreation Management Areas as a reminder that campfires are not allowed in these areas.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its longstanding efforts to improve safety at some of the nation’s most critical nuclear sites, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today released a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) with important new findings about problems within the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Three men were indicted yesterday on charges related to the interstate sex trafficking of a minor and several other women.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved legislation to protect the future of the Internet. Last year, the administration asked the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to convene a multistakeholder...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today praised the House for passing legislation to repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) for meat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that United States District Court Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Scott Usher, age 46, and Robin Usher, age 53, both of Lincoln, Nebraska, in connection with a wire fraud scheme. Scott Usher was sentenced on June 9, 2015, to 84 months in prison and ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Latrobe, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of health care fraud and obtained controlled substances through fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), have scheduled a joint hearing for Tuesday, June 16 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “EPA’s Proposed Ozone Rule: Potential Impacts on Manufacturing."
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a HELP Committee hearing on Health Information Exchange: A Path Towards Improving the Quality and Value of Health Care for Patients. In her opening statement, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: One Officer Charged With Federal Civil Rights Violation; All Three Charged With Obstruction of Justice.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) highlighted why high-standard free trade agreements enhance the security of the United States and boost its influence around the globe. Hatch went on to detail why the Senate-passed bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (TPA 2015) is essential to close such trade deals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Armani V. Carson, age 21, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The indictment charges Carson with possessing a firearm by a convicted felon, possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and distribution and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
