News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A Memphis man has pleaded guilty to distributing multiple images and videos of child pornography. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the plea today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) and Congresswoman Kristi Noem (R-SD) responded to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today on state spending in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The report revealed that one-third of states are using a loophole in current law that allows them to circumvent the financial requirements necessary to receive federal TANF funding.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Gallegos Prosecuted as Part of “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ricardo Salcido, 29, of Avondale, Ariz., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 70 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: MARKUP: Ways and Means Committee to Hold Markup Wednesday.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), introduced the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act, legislation to crack down on employers...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today published an interim final rule establishing procedures and time frames for handling employee retaliation complaints under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21). OSHA invites the public to submit comments on the interim final rule.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “Social Security and Public Servants: Ensuring Equal Treatment" on Tuesday, March 22 at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on 13 bills including, “EEZ Transit Zone Clarification and Access Act," introduced by Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Capping a year-long investigation, special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration have arrested four Southland men on federal narcotics and money laundering charges related to an operation in which they allegedly imported a powerful synthetic opiate from China and produced their own pills that were then distributed in bulk.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Adding to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives today passed H.R. 4596, the Small Business Broadband Deployment Act, authored by subcommittee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), by a bipartisan vote of 411-0. The bipartisan bill would...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey, man today admitted possessing on his computer images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) issued the following statement following a meeting at the White House with Vice President Joe Biden on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) also attended this afternoon’s meeting.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) issued the following statement following a meeting at the White House with Vice President Joe Biden on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) also attended this afternoon’s meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today the sentencing of a Roanoke man on federal heroin charges after he pled guilty last year in the United States District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Travis Lou Quiring, 41, of Hayden, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for manufacturing counterfeit bills, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Quiring to pay $ 1,785.00 in restitution and forfeit all the counterfeit manufacturing material. Quiring pleaded guilty to the charge on July 28, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: The Mental Health Reform Act of 2016 will help Americans suffering from mental health and substance use disorders
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today unanimously approved a discussion draft of the Pipeline Safety Act of 2016 to the full committee for consideration. The committee has a long, bipartisan tradition of working to enact pipeline safety reform. In 2011, the committee worked in conjunction with the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to enact the Pipeline Safety Act of 2011 into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Lew and Commissioner Koskinen...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding the introduction of a package of Ways and Means bills that will decrease the national debt, reduce fraud and cut wasteful Washington spending. All together, these three bills will save a combined $16.5 billion over two years and a total of $98 billion over ten years.
