News from March 2016
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: The Prevent Cancer Foundation recently honored House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) for their work on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. Momentum continues to build in the effort to deliver safe and effective #CuresNow.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: The Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today that Jonathan Michael Malone, 53, of Glen Carbon, Illinois, pled guilty to criminal charges in the United States District Court in East Saint Louis, Illinois. Malone was charged in the first count...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon the committee’s efforts to protect jobs and ensure grid reliability, the House of Representatives voted today to pass H.R. 3797, the Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment (SENSE) Act, by a vote of 231 to 183. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Keith Rothfus (R-PA), would ensure that environmentally beneficial coal refuse-to-energy facilities, currently threatened by EPA rules, continue to operate.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - David Lyman Spalding, 62, of Colleyville, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn to 180 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $3,391,146.80 in restitution, following his conviction at trial on all counts of a superseding indictment charging various offenses related to a wind farm investment scam he ran, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that William Reid Penuel (37, Ponte Vedra Beach) has pleaded guilty to embezzlement from a bankruptcy estate. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison and restitution estimated at approximately $151,000. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Everyone is invited to the annual Easter Egg Hunt in Capitol Reef National Park at 9:00 am on Saturday, March 26.The egg hunt is organized for three groups: children ages 3, 4 and 5 at the Picnic Area; ages 6, 7 and 8 also at the Picnic Area; and ages 9, 10 and 11 at the Ripple Rock Nature Center. Participants are encouraged to arrive early and carpool!Special programming at the Ripple Rock Nature Center will be provided for visitors of all ages during Saturday afternoon.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) issued the following statement regarding the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing held this morning on Late-Term Abortion: Protecting Babies Born Alive and Capable of Feeling Pain...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Junaidu Saljan Savage, a/k/a James Kamara, age 29, of Lanham, Maryland, for conspiring to commit bank fraud and for aggravated identity theft arising from a scheme to defraud a bank by using account holders’ personal information to take over their accounts.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement commending the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for its work to develop and finalize prescribing guidelines for the use of opioids in treating chronic pain, excluding cancer, palliative, ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today passed H.R. 2666, the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act, sponsored by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), by a vote of 29 to 19. H.R. 2666 would prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from regulating rates charged for broadband Internet, just as the administration promised when they reclassified access to the Internet as a utility under Title II of the Communications Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) led nearly 100 Democrats on a letter sent to the House Appropriations Committee, requesting...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced H.R. 4725, the Common Sense Savings Act of 2016, by a vote of 28-19. The bill authored by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) amounts to $30 billion in responsible budgetary savings.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) led nearly 100 Democrats on a letter sent to the House Appropriations Committee, requesting...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement in response to the Department of the Interior’s 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Proposed Program.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Are you a teenager looking for a challenging summer job? If so, you may be interested in working for the National Park Service as a member of the Youth Conservation Corps at Fort Sumter National Monument. The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) was established by Public Law 93-408. It is a summer employment...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) led nearly 100 Democrats on a letter sent to the House Appropriations Committee, requesting...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today passed H.R. 2666, the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act, sponsored by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), by a vote of 29 to 19. H.R. 2666 would prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from regulating rates charged for broadband Internet, just as the administration promised when they reclassified access to the Internet as a utility under Title II of the Communications Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement commending the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for its work to develop and finalize prescribing guidelines for the use of opioids in treating chronic pain, excluding cancer, palliative, ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced H.R. 4725, the Common Sense Savings Act of 2016, by a vote of 28-19. The bill authored by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) amounts to $30 billion in responsible budgetary savings.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) revealed the lack of coordination between United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during an incident at the San Bernardino USCIS office the day after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif.
