News from July 2010
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday reported out chemical security legislation that would extend for three years the current program to protect chemical facilities from terrorist attack and from being used, as one expert put it, as “pre-positioned weapons of mass destruction.".
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security Committee, urged federal officials at a special joint hearing Wednesday to involve local officials and residents in the decision-making process as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) updates flood maps across the nation,...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2010 - The CLEAR Act imposes a new energy tax costing $22 billion over ten years- with the taxes eventually climbing to nearly $3 billion per year. Specifically, it creates a new $2 per barrel of oil and 20 cents per million BTU of natural gas “conservation fee" with the revenue going towards unspecified purposes.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 28, 2010 - Despite reports that the latest version of the CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534) is a “slimmed-down" bill, it still contains numerous provisions that are completely unrelated to the Gulf oil spill or reforms to offshore drilling.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - House Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Senate Finance Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner expressing concern that the Treasury Department might impose a tax policy change benefiting trial lawyers nationwide, bypassing Congress and the IRS’ own precedent in doing so.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today released the following statement in reaction to the announcement that President Obama will make a recess appointment of Dr. Don Berwick as Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: Mr. President, the Senate once again has before it the small business jobs bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today sent Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner a letter requesting clarification and elaboration on his recent statement that tax rates on dividends and capital gains would not exceed 20 percent. In contrast to Secretary Geithner’s statement,...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued the following statement in response to the announcement that the U.S. won its case against the European Union for unfairly providing subsidies to Airbus which violated World Trade Organization Rules.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), today issued the following statement after House passage of H.R. 4380, U.S. Manufacturing Enhancement Act of 2010...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statements regarding H.R. 1875, legislation to create a commission to examine the trade deficit.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: The purpose of this hearing is to gain insight into the changes in the foreign-policy direction of our long-time ally Turkey. Now the sixteenth-largest economy in the world, Turkey is a complex country, endowed by geography with circumstances that connect Turkey to developments in at least a half-dozen regions and sub-regions.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - The top Republican on the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), today released new information from Congress’ non-partisan tax analysts showing that the Democrats’ looming tax hikes will cost millions of American taxpayers thousands of dollars in additional taxes next year.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 27, 2010 - In the latest version of the CLEAR Act unveiled Monday night, House Democrats have deleted a provision offered by Rep. Bill Cassidy (LA-06) to establish a bipartisan, independent, National Commission on Outer Continental Shelf Oil Spill Prevention, comprised of technical...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr. today formally imposed the federal death penalty sentence on Alejandro Enrique Ramirez Umana, aka "Wizard," announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Anne M. Tompkins of the Western ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Dr. Najam Azmat and the Satilla Regional Medical Center in Waycross, Ga., the Justice Department announced today. The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, alleges that the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — Three former financial services executives were indicted today for their participation in fraud schemes and conspiracies related to bidding for contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other municipal finance contracts, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — A federal jury in Philadelphia today convicted Ian P. Norris, the former CEO of The Morgan Crucible Company plc, a United Kingdom corporation, of conspiring with others to obstruct justice, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former U.S. Army contractor was arrested today in Newport News, Va., for allegedly killing one sailor and seriously injuring another in a vehicular collision in Kuwait, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia and Brigadier General Colleen McGuire, Provost General of the Army and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 27, 2010
News Release: I want to begin by thanking you all for your attendance and participation in this very significant event.
