News from June 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) issued the following statement in response to Speaker Paul Ryan’s unveiling of House Republicans so-called “Better Way" health care proposal...
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: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today that Garrett G. Brosnan, 25, of Bath, Maine, was arrested yesterday and charged in U.S. District Court by criminal complaint with attempting to transfer obscene material to a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Lyle Plentywounds, Sr., 60, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced today to a total of 33 months in prison for assault on an officer and for a violation of his supervised release on a previous case, which also involved an assault on an officer, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Plentywounds...
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today Jason M. Smith, 35, of Tonawanda, NY, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 60 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By Commerce 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 EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today welcomed a court’s ruling that the Department of the Interior does not have authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal lands.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today welcomed a court’s ruling that the Department of the Interior does not have authority to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal lands.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Effective June 17, 2016, the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation have issued a complete fireworks ban on tribal lands and associated water ways. Resolution 2016-311 is a step towards eliminating fire factors to protect natural resources and properties following last summer's devastating fires.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved a number of bipartisan bills that will help strengthen higher education for students, parents, and taxpayers. The legislative proposals-all approved by voice vote-include measures to empower students ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. has sentenced William Reid Penuel (38, Ponte Vedra Beach) to six months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzlement from a bankruptcy estate. While on supervised release, Penuel must serve six months of home detention, and participate in ongoing drug testing and treatment. He was also ordered to pay $151,239 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence tax preparer and former teacher in the Lawrence and Boston school systems was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with his role in defrauding the IRS of hundreds of thousands of dollars by filing false tax returns.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Stephen A. Monaco, D.P.M., 59, of Broomall PA was charged by criminal information, unsealed today, in connection with a $5 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and four private victim insurance companies, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The information alleges that Dr. Monaco committed the fraud through his practice, A Foot Above Podiatry, Inc. (“A Foot Above"), located in Havertown PA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - James Dale Pressnall, 50, of Moscow, Idaho pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Pressnall was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on Nov. 17, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John C. Cruden, the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, announced that JOSEPH CHAIT, the senior auction administrator of I.M. Chait Gallery, located...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $78,000 civil penalty against Amazon, Inc., for allegedly violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By Commerce 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: Montgomery, Alabama - U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr., Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, United States 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...
