News from October 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a Committee hearing to examine the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) response to the Committee’s bipartisan report that detailed their investigation into the IRS’s treatment of organizations applying for tax-exempt status...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), have scheduled a joint hearing for Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the EU Safe Harbor Decision and Impacts for Transatlantic Data Flows."
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt on the costs of newly-eligible adults in Medicaid. The CMS Office...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement today after the Obamacare co-op in his home state of Utah, Arches Health Plan, became the tenth nonprofit health insurance issuer under the President’s health law to fail...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa, Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Iowa have reached a proposed settlement resolving allegations of Clean Water Act violations by the City of Waterloo. The agreement will require the city to assess its...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- On Friday October 23rd, bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy asking the agency to investigate the safety of recycled rubber “crumbs" used in synthetic turf fields. NBC News reported on the Energy and Commerce...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jose Delarosa, also known as “Chino" or “Pretty," was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, to 240 months in prison for his role as a major supplier of marijuana based in California, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Delarosa...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) expressed disgust upon the release of a new video. According to Life News, “This latest video catches the nation’s biggest abortion business selling the intact heads of aborted babies for research." House Speaker John Boehner appointed Blackburn last week to chair the select panel to investigate the handling of infant lives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ODAIN J. JOHNSON, 22, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing the armed robbery of the First Niagara Bank in Windsor in January.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt on the costs of newly-eligible adults in Medicaid. The CMS Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Cedar Rapids, Iowa - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa will join Waypoint Services with other service providers and local law enforcement to hold a press conference on October 29th, the purpose of which is to discuss federal laws used to combat domestic violence. A Presidential Proclamation declared October as Domestic Violence Protection Month.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A local woman has been ordered to prison for nearly 20 years following her conviction of trafficking liquid methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Brenda Rodriguez-Garcia, 23, of Laredo, following a two-day trial on June 30, 2015,.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II today announced that Maine Dermatology, LLC, a dermatology practice with an office in Lincolnville, Maine, has agreed to pay $629,816 to settle claims involving false billings to the Medicare federal health care program. Medicare provides health insurance primarily to disabled and elderly Americans.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining the implementation of the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act. The Energy and Commerce Committee helped usher the bill into law during the 112th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Miller, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for attempted Commercial Sex Trafficking of a Child and Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Jermaine Comeaux, 35, has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Comeaux, of Houston, pleaded guilty March 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jacob Choate, 27, of Augusta, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to bank fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: At approximately 9 am today, a boat in distress call was put out by a vessel near the mouth of Tomales Bay. The National Park Service, US Coast Guard (USCG), Marin County Sheriff's Office, Marin County Fire, California Highway Patrol, and Bodega Bay Fire were notified/involved in a rescue operation.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On Oct. 27-30, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will travel to Havana, Cuba to meet with senior Cuban government officials and continue discussions on trade and travel between the United States and Cuba.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 26, 2015
News Release: Funding supports solar and other renewable energy projects to create jobs and promote energy independence WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is awarding loans and grants that will help more than 1,100 rural small businesses and agricultural producers ...
