News from June 2016
By EPA Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Since passing the House Energy and Commerce Committee in May, H.R. 4775, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016, sponsored by Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX), has achieved broad support from leading job creators across the country. The bill, which will be considered by the House this afternoon, will provide states with the time and tools they need to meet existing standards and address the agency’s overlapping regulations.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Since passing the House Energy and Commerce Committee in May, H.R. 4775, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016, sponsored by Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX), has achieved broad support from leading job creators across the country. The bill, which will be considered by the House this afternoon, will provide states with the time and tools they need to meet existing standards and address the agency’s overlapping regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Mo Money Tax Return Preparers Sentenced to Prison for Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and Filing False Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Jeremy Blanchard, 35, and Erik Pittman, 35, both of Memphis, Tennessee, were sentenced today to serve 70 and 33 months in prison, respectively, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return. Both were ordered to pay $549,000 in restitution.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: On Thursday, June 9 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, “The Administration’s Overtime Rule and Its Consequences for Workers, Students, Nonprofits, and Small Businesses." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor who admitted taking bribes in connection with a long-running and elaborate test referral scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates was sentenced today to 37 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today introduced H.R. ____, the FDA Cross-Center Collaboration Act of 2016, legislation to encourage collaboration at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The bipartisan bill continues on the #Path2Cures by modernizing the agency to help streamline the review of drugs and devices for major disease areas across product centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Timothy C. Fitzpatrick, 40, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession of heroin with intent to distribute and possession of a firearm and ammunition while being a previously convicted felon, was sentenced to 151 months in prison by U.S. District Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Versailles, Mo., woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to a fraud scheme in which she stole nearly $400,000 from her employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today introduced H.R. ____, the FDA Cross-Center Collaboration Act of 2016, legislation to encourage collaboration at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The bipartisan bill continues on the #Path2Cures by modernizing the agency to help streamline the review of drugs and devices for major disease areas across product centers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) this evening kicked off debate on the House amendment to S. 2276, the PIPES Act of 2016, which includes text from H.R. 5050, the Pipeline Safety Act of 2016, passed in April by the committee. Pending a House vote this week, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a markup considering two public health bills. Both bills, including an amendment and an amendment in the nature of a substitute, passed by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Twelve Month Prison Sentence for $87,000 in Fraudulent Disability Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON - Ivan Lamont Robinson, a licensed nurse practitioner who was based in Southeast Washington, has been indicted on federal charges that he distributed oxycodone outside the legitimate scope of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- The results of the June 2016 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Additional defendants were sentenced today for their respective roles in a sex trafficking scheme operated out of the Riviera Motel in New Orleans, which compelled multiple women to engage in prostitution in New Orleans and elsewhere, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today gave the following statement during House Floor debate on S. 2276, the “Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2016." Pallone was a key House Democratic negotiator of the bipartisan PIPES Act.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: EMINENCE, MO:Ozark National Scenic Riverways will offer several activities on June 18 and 19 in celebration of the National Park Service Centennial. The Father's Day Fishing Weekend will include several activities at Round Spring and Alley Spring that will provide opportunities to spend a day with Dad enjoying the Riverways.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously approved bipartisan legislation to enhance pipeline safety, clarify safety oversight efforts, and provide greater regulatory certainty in the transportation of energy commodities.
