News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Must Forfeit Nearly $600,000 Seized by Officers.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: RIDGELAND, MS - On Friday, April 22, 2016, fourth grade students from Highland Elementary School visited the Natchez Trace Parkway to celebrate National Park Week at the Parkway Information Cabin. Over 200 students participated in this Every Kid in a Park opportunity. The goal of the Every Kid in a Park...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Despite the Obama administration’s continued failure to provide basic information into the Transitional Reinsurance Program, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders are offering a final opportunity to cooperate. The committee has been investigating the administration’s illegal diversion...
By EPA Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate leaders today issued the following statement announcing that they are finalizing TSCA reform legislation...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -There is more to a trail than meets the eye. A well planned park or pathway promotes physical activity, protects the environment, and provides health benefits for individuals and communities. The National Park Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a...
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Coming on the heels of the House passing their opioid package, including 11 bills from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, lawmakers are set to enter into a conference to work out differences between the bills passed in each chamber. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) today appointed...
By EPA Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Coming on the heels of the House passing their opioid package, including 11 bills from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, lawmakers are set to enter into a conference to work out differences between the bills passed in each chamber. House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) today appointed...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury in Las Vegas returned a five-count indictment charging Clark County School District Police Officer James Lescinsky, 45, with unlawfully assaulting two people at the Jeffrey Behavior School on May 21, 2015, and then attempting to cover it up.
By EPA Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on a new proposed rule from CMS on its Part B Drug Payment Model, examining both the patient and doctor perspective. The new model is a mandatory experiment, which has the potential to severely hurt...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of structuring financial transactions, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - A North Carolina man pled guilty today to a federal drug conspiracy charge, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: A man who sold heroin and crack cocaine pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOL Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: LANSING, Ill. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Polar Service Centers to reinstate and pay $190,547 in back wages and damages to a safety manager at its Lansing facility. The action comes after a federal investigation found the commercial tank trailer company violated the whistleblower provisions of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL JESSE CONRAD, 31, of New Hartford, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Robert A. Richardson in Hartford to one count of production of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate leaders today issued the following statement announcing that they are finalizing TSCA reform legislation...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced a legislative hearing on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 10:10 AM in 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Legislative Hearing on 17 FTC Bills."
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare and Medicaid Program Integrity: Combatting Improper Payments and Ineligible Providers."
By EPA Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) today said they will oppose the current framework of legislation to update chemical safety laws unless significant changes are made. Last year, Pallone...
By State Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today gave the following remarks on the House floor in support of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act, as amended (H.R.1150 )...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to 66 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
