News from April 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt requesting details after several recent Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and HHS OIG reports found possible waste and mismanagement in CMS’ administration of Obamcare’s...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt requesting details after several recent Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and HHS OIG reports found possible waste and mismanagement in CMS’ administration of Obamcare’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Gary Hughes (36, San Diego, CA) today pleaded guilty to one count of mortgage fraud conspiracy involving bank fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years’ imprisonment.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Tomorrow at 10:00am Eastern Time in HVC-210, the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives will hold a hearing to examine The Pricing of Fetal Tissue, and whether abortion clinics and middleman businesses were making a profit from the transfer of human fetal tissue - a violation of federal law.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) blasted House Republican Appropriators today for exempting e-cigarettes and other vapor products from Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation. The measure was approved as part of a Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 appropriations bill that funds the FDA.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, and U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today released a statement after receiving a letter from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) inspector general regarding the Agency’s taxpayer funded, anti-farmer campaign.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today gave the following opening statement at a Health Subcommittee Hearing on the bipartisan Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) that examined physician efforts to prepare for Medicare Payment Reforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced John Edward Hayes, age 46, formerly of Baltimore, today to 209 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for armed bank robbery, use of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence and illegal possession of a firearm. Judge Bennett ordered Hayes to pay restitution of $17,697.11, the amount of the banks’ losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a grand jury in Scranton has indicted a federal inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan for assaulting a federal corrections officer.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In advance of tomorrow’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the safety and security of U.S. bioresearch labs, the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. The report, “High-Containment...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Fort Scott, KS FIND YOUR PARK! That is the slogan designed to encourage people to connect with their national parks during 2016, the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the National Park Service (NPS). From a relative handful of national parks and monuments in 1916, the National Park Service now...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Marc G. Collett, 34, of Elkins, pled guilty to fraudulently using counterfeit money to obtain authentic currency and other goods, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In advance of tomorrow’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the safety and security of U.S. bioresearch labs, the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. The report, “High-Containment...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing entitled, “Deciphering the Debate Over Encryption: Industry and Law Enforcement Perspectives." Members examined the intersection of the benefits associated with strong encryption and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney’s Christopher C. Myers announced that on April 19, 2016, Carl Eugene Smith, 24, Fargo, ND, pled guilty before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to a two-count Indictment charging him with Interference with Commerce by Threats or Violence- Hobbs Act Robbery, as well as Use of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Family Friendly, free event feature California State Park Ranger 150th Anniversary Special Ceremony.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today gave the following opening statement at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Hearing on “Deciphering the Debate Over Encryption: Industry and Law Enforcement Perspectives."
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Who: Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen.Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, today released a statement after receiving a letter from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) inspector general regarding the Agency's taxpayer funded, anti-farmer campaign.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a markup considering several bills that improve Americans’ access to public safety, improve spectrum efficiency, bring broadband to skilled nursing facilities, and keep the spending of the FCC’s Lifeline program in check.
