News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Michele Bergantino, 48, a citizen of Italy and a resident of Switzerland, pleaded guilty today to charges related to the aiding and assisting U.S. taxpayers in evading their income taxes during his employment as a banker working for Credit Suisse AG on its North American desk.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts, resulting in criminal and civil charges against 301 individuals...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Energy & Power Subcommittee Hearing on the Renewable Fuel Standard...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Republicans today unveiled a plan to replace Obamacare. It is a vision for a Confident America in which every American has access to quality, affordable health care. This is the fifth plank of A Better Way, a bold agenda to tackle some of our country’s biggest challenges. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) joined House leaders in unveiling the plan this afternoon at AEI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Harrisburg man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today provided an update on the progress made by the bipartisan encryption working group...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brian Acosta, age 21, a resident of Harrisburg, was indicted by a grand jury in Harrisburg and charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA-The Cascade River Road is now open to all vehicles to its end at Cascade Pass Trailhead. The road has been closed for the winter at the Eldorado Trailhead, three and a half miles below the Cascade Pass Trailhead.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law the “Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2016." A House amendment to S. 2276 passed earlier this month, and the final legislation cleared the Senate last week. As the product of bipartisan work from the...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today provided an update on the progress made by the bipartisan encryption working group...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law the “Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2016." A House amendment to S. 2276 passed earlier this month, and the final legislation cleared the Senate last week. As the product of bipartisan work from the...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after President Obama signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act into law. The legislative...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after President Obama signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act into law. The legislative...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI) today provided an update on the progress made by the bipartisan encryption working group...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Sean Peterson, 32, of Kearney, Nebraska, was sentenced on June 17, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to four years, 96 months in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for possession of child pornography. After his release from prison, Peterson will be required to serve a 15-year term of supervised release and be registered as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today released the following statement commending President Obama for signing into law H.R. 2576, the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, which modernizes the Toxic Substances Control Act. Pallone, who was a lead House...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today issued the following statement regarding the 2016 Medicare Trustees Report. Read a summary of key findings from the report HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of larceny was sentenced on June 20, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, all 23 Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats issued the following statement in response to a provision in Speaker Paul Ryan’s latest health care proposal that would cap federal Medicaid spending...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has announced the availability of the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Crow Tribe Municipal, Rural, and Industrial (MR&I) Water Supply Project. The Crow Tribe, in cooperation with Reclamation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), prepared the...
