News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Retired Ironwood Area School District Employee Convicted of Mail Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Esteban Ramos-Cruz, 29, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy (RICO), was sentenced to 30 years by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Homeland Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held the hearing, “Assessing the Security of Critical Infrastructure: Threat, Vulnerabilities, and Solutions." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By Homeland Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: In February, the World Health Organization declared Zika a public health emergency of international concern, and the President called for $1.9 billion to respond to the impending crisis and prevent the spread in our very own communities.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Energy Department released the On the Path to SunShot reports, a series of eight research papers examining the state of the U.S. solar energy industry and the progress made to date toward the SunShot Initiative’s goal to make solar energy cost-competitive with other forms of electricity...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Defendant Failed to List Gifts on Public Financial Disclosure Reports.
By US DOT Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Chairman Lou Barletta (R-PA). Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. Hearing on “Border Station Construction: Minimizing Costs and Leveraging Private Dollars". May 18, 2016. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Border Security is a fundamental responsibility...
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: From Manhattan to Mississippi, Americans Struggle to Find Care Under Obamacare.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A defendant was sentenced today in the Eastern District of Oklahoma to three consecutive terms of life in prison for the murder of three people in March 2004 in Indian Country, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Mark F. Green of the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the House passed the Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Prevention Act (H.R. 3832). Congressmen Jim Renacci (R-OH) and John Lewis (D-GA) introduced this bipartisan legislation to protect American taxpayers from tax-related identity theft.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after a federal judge ruled in favor of House Republicans in a lawsuit against the Administration’s improper use of taxpayer dollars under Obamacare.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Kenneth White, 39, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of sex trafficking of a minor, was sentenced to 156 months in prison by U.S. Senior District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Oversight and Government Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent letters to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator Howard Shelanski and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell urging their immediate compliance with Congressional subpoenas.
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing on the implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). As the Department of Education and state governments...
By US DOT Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: “Border Station Construction: Minimizing Costs and Leveraging Private Dollars"
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Alaska’s congressional delegation - Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan and Rep. Don Young - on Tuesday sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell urging the Department to keep all three lease sales proposed for Alaska’s OCS in the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s (BOEM) final Five-Year Program for the years 2017 to 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida- United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has convicted Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif (25, Melbourne, and a citizen of the United Arab Emirates) on possession of firearms by an unlawful or illegal alien and possession of ammunition by an unlawful or illegal alien. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for each count. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 26, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Jamaican citizen Trevor Arthur Junior Campbell, 41, for re-entering the United States illegally after being deported to Jamaica, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: “I am very excited to finally be having this hearing. When I came to Congress back in 2001, the Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR, provision in BBA 97 was in the process of being implemented. Under this payment formula, any yearly increase in per beneficiary spending that exceeded growth in GDP could result...
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016. Introduced by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), the legislation reauthorizes and reforms federal child nutrition programs to ensure states and ...
