News from March 2016
By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today released the following statement regarding the Senate’s failure to invoke cloture on the Biotechnology Labeling Solutions Bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that RYAN GEDDES, 44, of Litchfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in multiple conspiracies involving a series of real estate transactions intended to shield assets from creditors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: A Sheffield Lake man pleaded guilty to providing material support to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as well as firearms violations.
By Commerce 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 Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Ways and Means Committee voted to pass the Modernizing the Interstate Placement of Children Act (H.R. 4472). The bipartisan bill, introduced by Ways and Means Committee Members Rep. Todd Young (R-IN) and Rep. Danny Davis (D-IL), requires states to implement the National Electronic Interstate Compact Enterprise (NEICE), a system that reduces the amount of time it takes to place foster children in the environment best suited for them.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its Disrupter Series with a review of digital currency and blockchain technology. Today’s hearing follows previous discussions of Internet of Things, sharing economy, drones, mobile payments, and 3D printing.
By DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Today, Danny R. Williams, 29, and Sukita M. Williams, 43, both of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute Oxycodone and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Van Wert, Ohio, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on March 1, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today introduced a bill to extend the authorization of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs through July 15, 2016. The legislation also extends key revenue provisions through March 31, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its Disrupter Series with a review of digital currency and blockchain technology. Today’s hearing follows previous discussions of Internet of Things, sharing economy, drones, mobile payments, and 3D printing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Rodolfo Quiambao, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the engineering and design firm Rudell & Associates, Inc. (Rudell), pleaded guilty to two counts of federal programs bribery in connection with his scheme to pay bribes and kickbacks to supervisors...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is asking the Department of Homeland Security’s management to refrain from retaliating against whistleblowers who have contacted the committee. Johnson sent letters to DHS Secretary Jeh...
By EPA 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 DOE 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: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Scranton man was sentenced to 59 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge James Munley for committing a bank robbery on July 14, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A woman who defrauded the government of $80,000 by utilizing her deceased boyfriend’s retirement insurance benefits for personal expenses has pleaded guilty to theft of government money. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Noto, who is handling the case, stated that according to the superseding indictment, the defendant distributed synthetic cannabinoids (designer drugs) between July 2014 and March 24, 2015, in the Penn Yan area. During that time period, Sanford distributed synthetic controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN) released the following statement after President Obama announced D.C. Circuit Chief Judge Merrick Garland as nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court...
By EPA 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...
