News from October 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing on “Oversight of the Equifax Data Breach: Answers for Consumers:"
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) issued the following statement regarding the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation’s (CMMI) proposal to dramatically change how Medicare pays for Part B drugs...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Catholic Priest Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion and Bank Fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing entitled, “Part II: Powering America: Defining Reliability in a Transforming Electricity Industry." Today’s hearing was the second portion of #SubEnergy ’s two part review of electric reliability and grid...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: EASTHAM, Mass. - The outer Cape Cod landscape that has long served as muse for artists from around the world. Each autumn, winter, and spring Cape Cod National Seashore’s Salt Pond Visitor Center hosts a series of art exhibitions focusing on the seashore’s many varied natural and cultural resources.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a “Member Day" on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing on “Oversight of the Equifax Data Breach: Answers for Consumers:"
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 652, the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2017, by voice vote. Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) authored the House companion bill (H.R. 1539) earlier this year.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: All 24 Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today requesting immediate hearings to consider measures to stabilize the insurance markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Chief United States District Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Jabriel Bell and Fortune Hoppins to 46 months and 57 months of prison, respectively, in a gun burglary case. The judge ordered that Bell, 25, and Hoppins...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, House Oversight and Government Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings, Rep. Dennis Ross (R- FL), and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) sent a letter to Allergan President and Chief Executive Officer Brent Saunders questioning whether the unconventional transfer of six patents related to its drug Restasis to the Saint Regis Mohawk tribe impairs competition from cheaper drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a convicted felon to ten years in prison for stealing hundreds of firearms from a cargo train on the South Side of Chicago and selling more than a dozen of them.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today held a hearing to get answers for consumers on the Equifax data breach.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing entitled, “Part II: Powering America: Defining Reliability in a Transforming Electricity Industry." Today’s hearing was the second portion of #SubEnergy ’s two part review of electric reliability and grid...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Large quantities of broken glass have been found on a stretch of Lake Michigan beach from Lane Road to the Burfiend farm in the Port Oneida Rural Historic District of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). Cleanup is underway and signs are posted at beach entry points. Visitors...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: FILLMORE, Utah - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) West Desert District will conduct a prescribed burn on 62.5 acres of public lands, two miles east of the town of Gandy, in Millard County later this week. In the event of unfavorable weather, the burn will occur within the October 11 - 13 window. The prescribed burn is expected to last one day, with an additional day of monitoring and clean up.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - The former manager of the Stadium Grill restaurant in Mattoon, Ill., James Michael Hill, 40, was sentenced yesterday in Urbana to serve two years in federal prison for embezzling from the restaurant. Hill, of the 2700 block of Krishire Dr., Charleston, Ill., was ordered to report and surrender...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: A felon and drug user who possessed a stolen firearm was sentenced yesterday to more than five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two residents of Paterson, New Jersey, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal drug laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Chaoyi Le, 28, of Shanghai, China, pleaded guilty to Lacey Act False Labeling before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
