News from December 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - An Official at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing today informed staff of Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa that the Bureau is cancelling its plan to spend taxpayer money on $75 gift cards for senior employees who agree to turn in government issued printers and use network printers instead. The plan could have cost taxpayers over $40,000.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.--Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement this evening following President Obama's speech on Afghanistan:
By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: Today, the House Health, Employment, Labor and Pensions Subcommittee held a hearing to investigate how and why certain salaried employees of the Delphi Corporation were denied their full pension benefits in the wake of the General Motors and Delphi bankruptcy. Serious questions remain unanswered about ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: Health reform will help doctors continue to care for seniors.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned cultural artifacts to the government of Italy. A Corinthian column krater and Pompeii wall panel fresco were both noted on the Italian Carabinieri website as stolen art works.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-49), the Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Released the following statement on President Obama’s surge strategy for Afghanistan...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: Go to Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke's Remarks at Baldrige Quality Awards
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley has asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, William Dudley, questions about the government’s handling of its bailout of American International Group, or AIG, the largest underwriter of commercial and industrial insurance in the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are testing out alternative ways of tilling the soil and rotating crops to see if they can help wheat farmers in Oregon sequester more carbon in the soil and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) today in a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson called for a “thorough and transparent investigation into the questions raised by the...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley today urged the President to focus part of tomorrow’s White House jobs summit on creating good jobs in the United States by developing new market opportunities for U.S. products through expanded trade.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: STATEMENT OF CHAIRMAN BOXER SENATE ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE HEARING ON THE TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT DECEMBER 2, 2009 (Remarks as prepared for delivery.) When President Ford signed the Toxic Substances Control Act, TSCA in 1976, the law was supposed to help assure that toxic chemicals ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., reacted Wednesday to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that found that large foreign ports have been unable to scan anywhere near 100 percent of freight passing through those ports, as Congress has required.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement today after receiving a Secret Service briefing from Deputy Director Faron Paramore on the White House security breach...
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: Last night President Obama spoke eloquently to the nation about his plan of action in Afghanistan. Today we are pleased to welcome three senior officials to testify on the President’s proposed strategy: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen. We greatly appreciate your participation.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: Today, Congressman Tim Holden of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research, held a hearing to review economic analyses that consider the potential economic impacts of climate change on the farm sector.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2009
News Release: On Monday the Congressional Budget Office sent a letter to Senator Bayh that provides a comprehensive analysis of what health insurance premiums will look like as a result of the Reid bill. I’m starting to wonder if anyone actually read the letter. I hear a lot of people saying that this letter proves that premiums will go down under the Reid bill, even though that’s not what the letter says. So, I’m down here to tell people what the letter really says.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice today announced that a detainee has been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the government of France.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice today announced that a detainee has been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the government of Hungary.
