News from April 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held a legislative hearing on the discussion draft of “Locally-elected Officials Cooperating with Agencies in Land Management Act (LOCAL Management Act).".
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: TORONTO, Canada - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Toronto was among numerous law enforcement agencies that came together this week across Canada for a massive, coordinated investigation led by the Ontario Provincial Police to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation on the Internet.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today unveiled a number of bills to bring needed reforms to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Leading up to the rollout of these bills, #SubCMT launched The Disrupter Series, which...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, at an Energy and Commerce Committee markup focused on bills to combat the growing opioid addiction epidemic, Democrats denounced the harmful impacts of cut-go, the House Republican Conference budget rule that requires funding increases be offset by spending cuts. A similar rule...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today unveiled a number of bills to bring needed reforms to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Leading up to the rollout of these bills, #SubCMT launched The Disrupter Series, which...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Slavitt: As members of the Senate Finance Committee, we write to express our concerns regarding the Part B Drug Payment Model (the Model) recently proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI). We appreciate CMS’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: A Miami resident was sentenced to 42 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme involving the filing of 172 fraudulent tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved 12 more bills as part of a multi-day markup of 22 bills. Three of the bills passed today will help address the opioid and drug abuse crisis facing our nation, adding to the eight passed during Wednesday’s portion of the markup. The committee today also passed 9 bills to improve public safety and FCC transparency.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), today announced that ABRAHAM INZUNZA INZUNZA was extradited from Mexico where he had been arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Hollidaysburg, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to one day in prison, two years’ supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $7,132.03 to First National Bank on his conviction of misapplication of funds by a bank employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Stole more than $700,000 in Alcohol from Barton Brands’ Warehouse in Bardstown, Kentucky and Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), ranking member of the Senate EPW Committee, praised broad bipartisan support for the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2016 at the Senate EPW markup today. The legislation was reported out of the committee by a vote of 19 to 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: FBI, Law Enforcement Partners Target Prison Gang in New Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the momentum of yesterday’s approval of nine #SubHealth bills to fight opioid abuse and streamline EMT requirements for veterans, and one #SubEnergyPower bill to reauthorize pipeline safety, the Energy and Commerce Committee today passed nine #SubCommTech bills to boost public...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MICHAEL ROSS, a/k/a “Mikey," age 36, of Houma, pled guilty today one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: HOPE Initiative Partners Support DEA’s 11th National Take Back Event.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Matt Gorham Named Special Agent in Charge of the Counterterrorism Division at the Washington Field Office.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: SALINA, Kan. ¿ As they investigated unsafe working conditions at a Salina battery manufacturer, federal investigators initiated a second safety inspection after the company reported an unguarded machine partially amputated a 32-year-old worker's left middle finger.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, at an Energy and Commerce Committee markup focused on bills to combat the growing opioid addiction epidemic, Democrats denounced the harmful impacts of cut-go, the House Republican Conference budget rule that requires funding increases be offset by spending cuts. A similar rule...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Concerned with depleting U.S. capabilities to respond to bioterror threats, House and Senate leaders today pressed HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell on plans within the administration’s emergency spending request on the Zika virus to raid the BioShield Special Reserve Fund for threats unrelated...
