News from March 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted today to advance two critical pieces of legislation furthering the committee’s efforts to protect families and communities. This morning, the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy voted to advance a draft of the Improving...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted today to advance two critical pieces of legislation furthering the committee’s efforts to protect families and communities. This morning, the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy voted to advance a draft of the Improving...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives on Thursday will vote to put an end to the nearly two decades of “fixing" the broken Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committee earlier this week introduced H.R. 2, legislation to fix the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIC SAMUEL MOTINO-ALVAREZ, age 26, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced the filing of criminal charges against three (3) individuals accused of committing theft of government property, access device fraud, aggravated identity theft, and related crimes in the Baton Rouge area. Collectively, these three individuals...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mark Ruff, 40, of Connecticut, who was convicted of conducting an illegal gambling business and conspiracy to commit money laundering, was sentenced to nine years n prison and three years supervised release by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Ruff was also ordered to forfeit $230,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Cummings Speaks at Bipartisan Summit on Criminal Justice Reform
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Roskam Opening Statement: The Use of Data to Stop Medicare Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Cruden, the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, and Dan Ashe, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director, announced that XIAO JU GUAN, a/k/a “Tony...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Rashard Jones, Octavious Hasting, Xzavius Ogletree, Tony Anthony Goodman, David Combs, Demetrice Coggins, and Shedrick Howard have been charged in two separate federal indictments with illegal firearms dealing, possession of firearms by convicted felons, illegal possession of “sawed-off" shotguns and rifles, and distribution of narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Defendant Also Admits Engaging in Sexually Explicit Conversations with What He Believed Was a 13 Year Old Girl.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted today to advance two critical pieces of legislation furthering the committee’s efforts to protect families and communities. This morning, the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy voted to advance a draft of the Improving...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called on Congress to swiftly pass a bipartisan plan that would permanently repeal and replace the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR), also known as the “Doc Fix", with an improved payment system that rewards quality, efficiency, and innovation.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Kevin Brady Op-Ed: Lets Take First Step to Saving Medicare.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: President Barack Obama is expected to request the resignation of Chemical Safety Board Chairman Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso. In response to this news, Chairman Jason Chaffetz (UT-03) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (MD-07) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Miami residents Gladys Fuertes (40) and her husband, Mario Fuertes (38), guilty of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, and obstructing a health care investigation. They are facing a maximum...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Cruden, the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, and Dan Ashe, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director, announced that XIAO JU GUAN, a/k/a “Tony...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives on Thursday will vote to put an end to the nearly two decades of “fixing" the broken Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committee earlier this week introduced H.R. 2, legislation to fix the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ramon Perez, Sr., 33, of Eunice, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to violating federal firearms laws. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Perez will be sentenced to 72 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Today, during a full House Judiciary Committee hearing on “Wrecking the Internet to Save It? The FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules," Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) delivered the following opening statement...
