News from February 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Thursday, February 25th at 10:00 AM, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) will deliver the keynote address at an Urban-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center event, Tax policy in 2016: What’s new and what’s next.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Scheme Involved Claims for Compounded Pain and Scar Creams.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: In advance of their first idea forum today, the chairs of the Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility released their mission statement. This mission statement, laying out the goals of the task force, marks the next step in the development of a bold, pro-growth agenda that Republicans will present to the country in the coming months.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Ten defendants who pleaded guilty in October 2015 to their respective roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in Wichita Falls, Texas, from approximately March 2014 to August 2015, were sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “Getting Incentives Right: Connecting Low-Income Individuals with Jobs" on Tuesday, March 1st at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is establishing an aviation rulemaking committee with industry stakeholders to develop recommendations for a regulatory framework that would allow certain UAS to be operated over people who are not directly involved ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Heroin Dealer Sentenced to 16 Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys W. Mark Conover (619) 546-6763 or Shane P. Harrigan (619) 546-6981.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former Selmer Police Department lieutenant has been indicted on multiple child pornography charges. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: “Today’s hearing is the 29th anti-regulatory hearing that the Committee has held over the past 5 years. Yet, during those same 5 years, the Committee has not conducted a single hearing on -
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has announced additional information regarding its hearing Wednesday, March 2, 2016, on the Zika virus. The hearing will take place at 10:15 a.m. in Room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the U.S. Public Health Response to the Zika Virus."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing entitled, “DOE for the 21st Century: Science, Environment, and National Security Missions." Members examined two Congressional advisory panels’ findings and recommendations concerning...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today welcomed action by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to reduce regulatory compliance costs for manufacturers. Earlier this month, the subcommittee held a hearing to understand how the...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) today released the results of a new report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) expressing concerns with lax oversight and weak eligibility controls of Obamacare’s data hub and federal exchange.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell providing testimony on the department’s proposed budget.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today welcomed action by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to reduce regulatory compliance costs for manufacturers. Earlier this month, the subcommittee held a hearing to understand how the...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Lowell, MA. Join us for a film screening and discussion of the 2015 filmSuffragette, at the Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, from 7:00 p.m. -9:00 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today welcomed the National Cable & Telecommunications Association’s announcement that a deal has been reached with the Association of Public Television Stations and PBS to ensure carriage of public television stations on the nation’s cable systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Reggie Rucker pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges related to using charitable donations to anti-violence groups he led to pay his gambling debts and personal expenses, including mortgage payments, meals, and entertainment, law enforcement officials said.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 24, 2016
News Release: Inhofe Statement on Bipartisan Solution for Flint
