News from March 2015
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has rescheduled the hearing on “Examining the 340B Drug Pricing Program" for Tuesday, March 24, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAIME JAUREGUI, age 36, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced today after a federal jury found him guilty of conspiracy to violate the Gun Control and National Firearms Acts and possession of unregistered firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - Patricia Ethel Chinault, 72, of Apopka, Florida, pled guilty today to embezzling approximately $1 million from a Carroll County law firm. Chinault previously lived in Carroll County and worked as a bookkeeper for the law firm. After she moved to Florida in 2009, Chinault continued to provide bookkeeping services for the firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Scheme Yielded Millions of Dollars in Bribes.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: NORTH PLATTE, Neb. - For the third time since 2011, the Union Pacific Railroad has violated the Federal Railroad Safety Act* at its yard in North Platte by disciplining employees who reported workplace injuries and sought medical attention, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. Since 2001, the company has faced more than 200 whistleblower complaints nationwide.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. March 18: Live Webinar on Hiring Veterans for Solar Energy Jobs. Webinar Sponsor: SunShot Initiative. The Energy Department will cosponsor a live webinar titled "Call to Action! Hire Skilled Veterans Today!" on Wednesday, March 18, from 2:00 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today continued its oversight of EPA’s Proposed 111(d) rule for existing power plants, referred to by the agency as the “Clean Power Plan." Today’s hearing examined the legal and cost issues of the rule and featured testimony from leading legal scholars and state regulators.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released a draft bill to reauthorize the Federal Communications Commission. The legislation, released ahead of the subcommittee’s Thursday hearing with all five FCC commissioners, would reauthorize the agency for the first time in nearly 25 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man, today admitted to colluding with other contractors to secure projects funded by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grants, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Support continues to grow for a permanent resolution to the frequent crises created by the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate formula for Medicare physician payment. Several House Energy and Commerce Committee health leaders have added their voices to the growing chorus of key thought leaders...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: HOUSE OVERSIGHT FULL COMMMITTEE HEARING. FCC: PROCESS AND TRANSPARENCY . Witness: Tom Wheeler, Chairman, U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) . Takeaways: * The FCC IG has opened an investigation on the net neutrality rule making process. * During his opening statement, Chairman Wheeler talked...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At today’s Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing on “EPA’s Proposed 111(d) Rule for Existing Power Plants: Legal and Cost Issues," noted legal expert Laurence Tribe, President Obama’s constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School, attacked EPA’s so-called Clean Power Plan for its...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At today’s Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing on “EPA’s Proposed 111(d) Rule for Existing Power Plants: Legal and Cost Issues," noted legal expert Laurence Tribe, President Obama’s constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School, attacked EPA’s so-called Clean Power Plan for its...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today continued its oversight of EPA’s Proposed 111(d) rule for existing power plants, referred to by the agency as the “Clean Power Plan." Today’s hearing examined the legal and cost issues of the rule and featured testimony from leading legal scholars and state regulators.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today continued its oversight of EPA’s Proposed 111(d) rule for existing power plants, referred to by the agency as the “Clean Power Plan." Today’s hearing examined the legal and cost issues of the rule and featured testimony from leading legal scholars and state regulators.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Support continues to grow for a permanent resolution to the frequent crises created by the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate formula for Medicare physician payment. Several House Energy and Commerce Committee health leaders have added their voices to the growing chorus of key thought leaders...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Troy R. Morley has been named the new Tribal Liaison for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of South Dakota. As Tribal Liaison, Morley will serve as the conduit in matters between the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the nine tribes of South Dakota.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In case you missed it, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, continued his efforts to tackle government waste and fraud, and strengthen the integrity and efficiency of federal programs. On Monday afternoon, the Homeland Security...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Federal Laboratory Technology Transfer, Fiscal Year 2012, Summary Report to the President and Congress. The report provides government-wide results of federal technology transfer activities in 2012. It includes both quantitative...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
