News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 43-year-old Whitehouse, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for a firearms violation in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Wednesday, Congressmen Todd Young (R-IN) and John Delaney (D-MD) introduced H.R. 1336, the Social Impact Partnership Act. This bipartisan legislation would support evidenced-based policy, a concept long promoted by Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI). The bill would improve social and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - Gilbane Building Company will pay the United States $1.1 million to resolve allegations that W.G. Mills Incorporated - a company with which Gilbane merged in November 2010 - violated the False Claims Act by creating a front company, Veterans Constructors Incorporated (VCI), in order to be...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SEAN GRANGER, 36, of Rayne, Louisiana, was sentenced today for knowingly and willfully tampering with a method of record required to be maintained under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Betty Jo Tudor, 35, of Alkol, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Charleston to obtaining hydrocodone by fraud. Tudor, a former nurse at Sweetbriar Assisted Living in Dunbar, West Virginia, admitted that in June of 2013 she stole hydrocodone intended for patients for her own personal use and falsified records to cover up the theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - This morning, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke to Fox News about the “off-ramp from Obamacare " that he, along with Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN), proposed this morning in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Defendant to Pay $77,934.00 in Restitution to Cover NMSU’s Costs in Responding to Threat.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EDUARD TERCERO-LAGOS, age 25, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 46-year-old Lumberton, Texas man pleaded guilty to federal charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brett Ehrhardt, 29, and Loren Delaney, 23, both of Morgantown, West Virginia, were convicted in federal court today for prescription painkiller trafficking in Monongolia County, West Virginia, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Tobias Lynn Bennett, 41, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison today for witness tampering, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade today took a critical step in its efforts to advance a single, federal standard on data security and breach notification. Members of the subcommittee reviewed a bipartisan draft of “The Data Security Breach Notification Act, " authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT).
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade today took a critical step in its efforts to advance a single, federal standard on data security and breach notification. Members of the subcommittee reviewed a bipartisan draft of “The Data Security Breach Notification Act, " authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 18, 2015 - As it made its way this morning to the Office of Management Budget (OMB) for review, the new Stream Buffer Zone (SBZ) rulemaking came under full scrutiny at the Committee on Natural Resources’ hearing on "Effect of the President’s FY 2016 Budget and Legislative Proposals for the Office of Surface Mining on Private Sector Job Creation, Domestic Energy Production, State Programs and Deficit Reduction.".
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below following the Committee's hearing on S. 697, the Udall-Vitter TSCA bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Dear Secretary Lew: As you are aware, the Constitution grants Congress the sole power to lay and collect taxes. While implementation of tax law often requires regulations, revenue rulings, notices, and other Executive Branch actions, this role is limited to carrying out the will of the Legislative Branch,...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Former governor JOHN G. ROWLAND was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today sent a letter to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as part of ongoing bipartisan oversight of the federal mental health system.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing to review a draft of the Improving Coal Combustion Residuals Regulation Act of 2015. Rep. David McKinley (R-WV) put forward the discussion draft, which builds on the committee’s bipartisan, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Thank you Mr. Chairman. I would also like to welcome Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen back before the subcommittee.
