News from May 2015
By EPA Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: This week the Department of the Interior finally gave conditional approval to begin production of the vast energy resources in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. The approval of Shell’s exploration plan, following a finding of no significant environmental impact, marks a critical milestone in what has proved to be...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called on the Senate to approve a procedural motion that would allow debate on Finance-passed bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) and called for swift passage of the bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - George Borbas, Randy Webman, Larry Webman, and Dara Webman have all pleaded guilty to illegally selling and distributing prescriptions for opiate-based narcotics and other controlled substances to addicts and drug dealers under the guise of a pain clinic in Lilburn, Georgia.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today unveiled an updated draft of the 21st Century Cures Act as support for the multiyear initiative continues to build. 21st Century Cures is a new approach to tackle disease by updating how we research and regulate. Patient...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSEPH F. GAGLIANO, age 55, and DOMINICK GULLO, age 72, both from Metairie, were each sentenced today for violating federal firearm laws.
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After more than a year of listening to and engaging with patients and other experts across the country, the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today advanced the 21st Century Cures Act by a voice vote. The full committee will consider the legislation next week. The bipartisan...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - This morning, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke to Fox & Friends about the importance of Congress coming together to move forward on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation, so that we can get new trade agreements that will open up new markets for our products and create good-paying jobs right here in America.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on May 14, 2015, Thomas Schropp, 53, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced for arson and insurance fraud. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Schropp to a 16-year term of imprisonment. After his release from prison, Schropp...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: I urge my colleagues to take the first step to throwing away the NAFTA playbook on trade. This overall package is going to usher in a new, modern American trade policy, starting with tough, robust, effective trade enforcement, which I addressed here on the floor a short while ago.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Today the Senate is kicking off the trade debate with a clear statement that the NAFTA playbook is gone. This is a new day in trade policy, and that starts with the recognition that vigorous enforcement must be at the forefront of America’s trade policy in 2015 and beyond.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: In El Paso today, 44-year-old Juan Manuel Flores (aka “Cholo"), the leader of an El Paso-based cocaine trafficking and money laundering organization, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, El Paso Division, and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today announced a plan for the committee to address Medicare spending on treating multiple chronic illnesses, which accounts for the vast majority of the program’s expenditures.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: This week the Department of the Interior finally gave conditional approval to begin production of the vast energy resources in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. The approval of Shell’s exploration plan, following a finding of no significant environmental impact, marks a critical milestone in what has proved to be...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eric G. Acosta, 28, a resident of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to methamphetamine trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that James Dean Garcia, Jr, 33, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced today, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Garcia was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment and two years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, May 21, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “What are the State Governments Doing to Combat the Opioid Abuse Epidemic?"
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that the case involving Mark Myrie, aka “Buju Banton," has been resolved. Myrie was previously granted a new trial for a firearms charge after a finding by the District Court that a juror had committed misconduct in regard to...
By DOL Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health today released the Hospital Respiratory Protection Toolkit *, a resource for health care employers to use to protect hospital staff from respiratory hazards.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - Tomorrow the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, Nevada Division of Forestry, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service are implementing fire restrictions in Southern Nevada.
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, May 21, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “What are the State Governments Doing to Combat the Opioid Abuse Epidemic?"
