News from March 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committees today introduced H.R. 2, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act, to permanently replace Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). The agreement builds upon H.R. 1470, the SGR Repeal and...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing to discuss the 340B federal drug discount program. Witnesses from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG), and Health Resources...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing to discuss the 340B federal drug discount program. Witnesses from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG), and Health Resources...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Earlier today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) joined bipartisan committee leaders to unveil H.R. 2, legislation to permanently replace the flawed Sustainable Growth Rate and put in place Medicare reforms to promote quality care for seniors. Full committee...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today held a hearing on the impacts of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed ‘Waters of the United States’ (WOTUS) rule.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: HOUSE OVERSIGHT FULL COMMITTEE HEARING. USSS: HOLDING THE PROTECTORS ACCOUNTABLE . Witness: Joseph P. Clancy, Director, United States Secret Service (USSS) . Takeaways: * Bipartisan agreement that USSS is lacking in accountability and transparency. * Major unanswered questions surround USSS’s ineffective...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: 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 for his role in a conspiracy that produced and sold thousands of false identification documents to illegal aliens.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) issued the following comment after USTelecom and Alamo Broadband each filed Monday to appeal the FCC’s Depression-era net neutrality rules.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Subcommittees: * Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade (114th Congress) . On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade will host an Internet of Things Showcase featuring Internet-connected products manufactured in members’ districts. The showcase will precede a subcommittee...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Washington -The National Park Service is accepting comments from the public on a proposed plan to relocate geese from parts of the National Mall using environmentally safe and humane methods. The project would use border collies at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Washington Monument grounds and...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today respond to Department of Energy Secretary Moniz’s announcement that DOE would move forward with siting a separate repository for high-level defense nuclear waste.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) report on their investigation of employee complaints regarding management of USCIS' EB-5 Program...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Nina Thompson aka Nina Thompson Price has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a false U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Special Agent in Charge Lucy Cruz of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). Thompson pleaded guilty Dec. 29, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a guilty verdict against Charles Brown, of Baltimore, Maryland was upheld.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 24, 2015 - Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans made the following opening statement at today's oversight hearing entitled "Examining the Spending Priorities and Missions of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Power Marketing Administrations and USGS Water Division in the President’s FY 2016 Budget Proposal.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced former U.S. Postal Service station manager Richard Lewis Wright, III, age 47, of Baltimore, today to 40 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bribery in connection with a scheme to obtain U.S. Postal Service contracts in exchange for bribe payments. Judge Hollander also entered an order that Wright forfeit and pay restitution of $501,791.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: FAIRFIELD, Ala. - Like most of us, Leo Bridges and Edward Bryant left for work one day in September 2014, probably thinking about some rest and relaxation when the shift ended. Like many, they figured their managers and employer would ensure they were safe at work. Bridges and Bryant were wrong; they...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Juan Loredo, 22, and Shawn Smith,19, both from Salinas, California, pleaded guilty today to bank robbery by use of dangerous weapons and brandishing of firearms during the commission of a felony offense, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Amin De Castro, 39, of Philadelphia, PA was charged today by Indictment with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about Sept. 22, 2014, De Castro, an alien, and native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, was found in the United States in possession of a.380 caliber firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2015
News Release: Diverted $2.8 million for his personal use.
