News published on Federal Newswire in April 2016

News from April 2016



Look Ahead: Committee Announces Hearing and Vote Schedule for the Week of April 18

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of April 18.


Member Of Alleged International Organization Of Money Launderers For The Largest Drug Cartels Extradited To The United States

News Release: NEW YORK - Earlier today, Jhon Jairo Hincapie-Ramirez, a citizen of Colombia, was arraigned at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, for his alleged role in an international money laundering organization that brokered financial transactions designed to conceal the source of illegal narcotics...


Multi-Agency Search in Wahweap Bay April 2016

News Release: On April 14, 2016, just before 7 p.m., National Park Service Glen Canyon Dispatch received an emergency call from a boat just outside Wahweap Marina reporting that a 26 year-old man fell overboard and did not resurface. The incident occurred in the Kane County portion of Wahweap Bay in Lake Powell.


Los Lunas Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Methamphetamine Trafficking Charge

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joseph Baldonado, 30, of Los Lunas, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Baldonado will be sentenced to 60 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release.


News Release: Organization Used Chinese Banking System and Trade-Based Money Laundering Scheme to Launder Over $5 Billion.


#SubOversight Investigates “The Great Obamacare Heist”

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today continued its oversight of Obamacare, with a hearing examining its reinsurance program. The program was created to provide financial assistance to insurers offering Obamacare plans, ultimately...


House to Vote on Connecting Consumers and Innovation

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on H.R. 2666, the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act. The bill authored by committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) would prohibit the FCC from regulating the retail rates charged by Internet service providers (ISPs) ...


News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today voiced his opposition during House floor debate to H.R. 2666, the deceptively named “No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act."


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) published the following today on Medium.com highlighting his trip to the Middle East and North Africa, and Wednesday night’s Senate passage of H.R. 1493, sponsored by Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), to combat ISIS trafficking of both Iraqi and Syrian cultural property...


Innovations in Employer-Sponsored Insurance Promoting a Healthy Workforce

News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), held a hearing this week to discuss innovations employers are implementing to control costs and provide higher quality coverage to their employees. The hearing is part of the ongoing work by the Task Force on Health Care Reform to develop responsible reforms that will expand affordable coverage and lead to a more patient-centered health care system.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives passed three more Energy and Commerce Committee bills this week, further advancing the committee’s proud bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess.


#SubOversight Investigates “The Great Obamacare Heist”

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today continued its oversight of Obamacare, with a hearing examining its reinsurance program. The program was created to provide financial assistance to insurers offering Obamacare plans, ultimately...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on H.R. 2666, the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act. The bill authored by committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) would prohibit the FCC from regulating the retail rates charged by Internet service providers (ISPs) ...


News Release: WASHINGTON-The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $162,500 civil penalty against Airbus Defence and Space of Madrid, Spain, for allegedly violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations.


News Release: St. Louis, MO - Shaun Hayes and Michael Litz were indicted on bank fraud charges relating to Excel Bank, which was closed by regulators in 2012.


National Park Service reaches next step toward Arlington Memorial Bridge Rehabilitation

News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS), in its ongoing commitment to keep the Arlington Memorial Bridge open and safe, invites the public to comment on the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the bridge rehabilitation project, a comprehensive proposal to rehabilitate and repair the iconic bridge. Comments will be accepted April 15 - May 16, 2016.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of April 18.


News Release: PITTSBRUGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of falsification of a firearms purchase form, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


Dominican National Sentenced To Time Served For Making A False Claim To U.S. Citizenship

News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Pedro Julio Alcantar-Bernabel a/k/a Francis Villar de la Santos, a citizen of the Dominican Republic who pleaded guilty to one count of Social Security Number Misuse and one count of Making a False Claim to United States Citizenship on January 7, 2016, was sentenced to time served, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice. Alcantar-Bernabel has been in custody since his arrest on July 1, 2015.