News from April 2016
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today commended the U.S. Senate for passing S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, a bipartisan energy bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Former Owner and President of Pennsylvania Consulting Companies Pleads Guilty to Bribing Official at European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing work to address the opioid and drug abuse crisis facing our nation, the Health Subcommittee will vote this afternoon on a number of bipartisan solutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Two international computer hackers; Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, a/k/a Gribodemon, of Russia, and Hamza Bendelladj, a/k/a Bx1, of Algeria, have been sentenced to a combined 24 years, six months in prison for their roles in developing and distributing the prolific malware known as SpyEye, which caused hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to the financial industry around the world.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: “Today the Subcommittee will hold the second in a series of hearings to focus on fundamental tax reform. At our last hearing, we concentrated on Member proposals that would reform the U.S. tax system by moving away from income-based taxation to cash-flow or consumption as the basis for taxation. This afternoon, we will look at tax reform proposals within the context of an income tax system.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing focusing on the need for stronger oversight of high-containment laboratories.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Inhofe, Markey, Rounds, Booker Praise Passage of Brownfields Reauthorization in Senate Energy Bill
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Stephanie Hagemeier, age 43 of Hastings, Nebraska, was sentenced upon her conviction for aiding and abetting the unlawful hiring of an alien. Senior United States District Court Judge Lyle E. Strom sentenced Hagemeier to one year of probation and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Today’s takedown of alleged gang affiliates follows the recent federal convictions of Brunswick Gangster Disciple associates.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after Senate passage of S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today approved 12 bills, nearly all of which help address the opioid and drug abuse crisis facing our nation. Today’s votes advance the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing efforts to address the opioid epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Norris King, 52, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of theft and assault within special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, was sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of community confinement in a community treatment center, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing examining the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Fiscal Year 2017 budget request. All four NRC commissioners testified on behalf of the budget request.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today approved 12 bills, nearly all of which help address the opioid and drug abuse crisis facing our nation. Today’s votes advance the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing efforts to address the opioid epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Patrick Simanjuntak Sold the Drug on Craigslist.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Shihong Chen, 51, of Elk Grove, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to one year and one day in prison for growing marijuana inside homes in Elk Grove and Sacramento, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, was so pleased to welcome Denis Bilodeau of the Orange County Water District as a witness at today's Committee hearing focused on innovative water supply technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On April 20, 2016, Gerald Wayne Jackson, 27, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, Senior U.S. District Judge, to serve 175 months in federal prison. Jackson pleaded guilty to an attempted Hobbs Act robbery and discharge of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence in October 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Alabama, in partnership with other federal agencies, hosted a community roundtable at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute on Wednesday that focused on religiously-motivated discrimination in hiring and in the workplace, and on ways the federal government can improve its efforts in these critically important areas, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury has returned indictments charging three men from Mexico with illegal reentry into the United States, alleging that they were discovered to be in the country unlawfully, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
