News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that Elizabeth Croley, 37, a former captain at the Decatur County, Georgia, Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for willfully withholding evidence favorable to a criminal defendant and for writing a false report to cover up another...
By Commerce 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 USDA Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, today urged the Senate to support his legislation to provide a uniform standard for bioengineering and an incentive to provide more information on biotechnology to consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Indictment charges 11 following long-term investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - One day after the National Football League (NFL) admitted at a House Energy and Commerce Committee roundtable that there is a link between football and degenerative brain disorders, Democratic leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell asking what the League plans to do now to prevent repetitive brain trauma.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Transportation Committee Member Barbara Comstock (R-VA) responded today to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) announcement that it was closing Metrorail on Wednesday for emergency inspections.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Robert Smulski, age 58, of Wilmington, Delaware, was sentenced to twelve months and one day of imprisonment and two years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $484,339.28 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service for the willful failure to pay over employment taxes. Smulski...
By DOE 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 - One day after the National Football League (NFL) admitted at a House Energy and Commerce Committee roundtable that there is a link between football and degenerative brain disorders, Democratic leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell asking what the League plans to do now to prevent repetitive brain trauma.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: (PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Miguel Colon, 55, of Woonsocket, was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for trafficking heroin and cocaine, and for carrying a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities. At the time of his arrest in April 2015, law enforcement seized three kilograms of cocaine and a loaded firearm found stashed inside a hidden compartment inside Colon’s vehicle and nearly 900 grams of heroin hidden inside a self-storage unit rented by Colon.
By Commerce 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 Commerce 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 State Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing to examine political, economic, and judicial reforms in Ukraine, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned that the U.S. neglects to connect Moscow’s military intervention in Syria with its desire to weaken the European ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), has scheduled a joint hearing for Tuesday, March 22, 2016, at 2 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Fiscal Year 2017 EPA Budget." EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will be the sole witness and provide testimony on the budget.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) issued the following statement on the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) release of new opioid prescribing guidelines...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: "Celebrate Harvest Homecoming with us," says Shirley Torgerson, Executive Director of the Capitol Reef Natural History Association. This year's gathering also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service and is Capitol Reef National Park's signature centennial event.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Defendant Filed Fraudulent Reimbursement Claims Using Stolen Information of Medicaid Recipients with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Suit Alleged that Lender and Purported Charity Concealed Loan Defaults from Federal Housing Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Branson, Mo., EMT was sentenced in federal court today for producing child pornography. Nicholas James Dickerson, 31, of Branson, Mo., was sentenced by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned a ten-count indictment on Feb. 24, 2016 against fourteen individuals, charging them with a multistate conspiracy to fraudulently obtain cheaper...
