News from May 2021
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following remarks on the how Speaker Pelosi’s government price control scheme will lead to fewer cures and less access to treatments.
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Negotiating a Better Deal: Legislation to Lower the Cost of Prescription Drugs:"
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced a fully remote Health Subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, May 12, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on the fiscal year 2022 discretionary budget request for HHS and its agencies. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2022 HHS Budget."
By US DOT Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) will co-host Episodes III and IV of the virtual FAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Symposium - Remotely Piloted Edition. The theme for this year’s virtual event is “Above and Beyond" and will take place on June 9-10, 2021, and September 14-15, 2021.
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following remarks on the how Speaker Pelosi’s government price control scheme will lead to fewer cures and less access to treatments.
By State Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian...
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Thursday, May 13, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) on the Superfund provisions within...
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following remarks on the how Speaker Pelosi’s government price control scheme will lead to fewer cures and less access to treatments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today ordered Isis Baldwin (39, Ponciana) to pay $11,754.76 in restitution for making false statements to a federal agency. In addition, the court also sentenced Baldwin to three years’ probation and required her to perform 45 days of work duty at the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Work Farm.
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) reintroduced the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021, bipartisan legislation to help more Americans successfully save for a secure retirement. This legislation was first introduced in October 2020, and builds on the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019 to further improve workers’ long-term financial wellbeing.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, Fort Clatsop, is pleased to announce the next virtual “In Their Footsteps" free speaker series event. “Early Explorers of the Pacific Northwest - A Long Time Coming" by Robert Heacock will be on Lewis and Clark National Historical Park's official Youtube page at 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Sunday, May 16.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - DEA’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day collected 829,543 pounds (419.7 tons) of unused, expired, and unwanted medications across the country. The Houston Field Division collected 27,850 pounds of that grand total. Americans once again showed their dedication toward helping prevent addiction...
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: DHS and HHS were left to rebuild the capacity to shelter and process the children, after having inherited a system that had been entirely dismantled by the prior administration. This infographic demonstrates the tremendous progress that DHS and its partners have made to safely and efficiently transfer unaccompanied children out of CBP custody and into the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: DHS and HHS were left to rebuild the capacity to shelter and process the children, after having inherited a system that had been entirely dismantled by the prior administration. These photos demonstrate the tremendous progress that DHS and its partners have made to safely and efficiently transfer unaccompanied children out of CBP custody and into the care of the Department of Health and Human Services.
By Homeland Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas and the Family Reunification Task Force announced that this week, the Biden Administration will begin to reunite families who were unjustly separated at the United States-Mexico border under the prior administration.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), announced a $20 million settlement resolving alleged violations of the FTC Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), including violations of the Red Flags Rule. The settlement includes $15 million in civil penalties, which represents the largest civil penalty ever paid to resolve FCRA violations under the FTC Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: Neurosurgeon Wilson Asfora, M.D. of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and two medical device distributorships that he owns, Medical Designs LLC and Sicage LLC, have agreed to pay $4.4 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations relating to illegal payments to Asfora to induce the use of certain medical devices, in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as claims for medically unnecessary surgeries.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: Three telemarketing company owners were charged for their alleged participation in a $47 million health care fraud, kickback, and money laundering scheme involving the referral of medically unnecessary cancer genetic tests to labs in exchange for kickbacks. An indictment, unsealed today, charges Christian ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: An Indiana man and former business agent of Iron Workers Local 395 was sentenced today to more than four years in prison for conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2021
News Release: A former Tennessee correctional officer was sentenced Friday to two years in prison and two years of supervised release for his involvement in a staff assault of an inmate.
