News from April 2011
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: CBS NEWS: Yucca Mountain: did politics trump science?
By State Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) issued the following statement today in response to the killing of UN workers in Mazar-i-Sharif:
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) released the following statements responding to the proposed rules for calorie labeling on menus in chain restaurants and vending machines announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement this morning following news that the economy added 216,000 jobs in March and the unemployment rate fell to 8.8 percent...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: CBS NEWS: Yucca Mountain: did politics trump science?
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: Today, at the Intellectual Property Subcommittee Hearing on “Competition and Consolidation in Financial Markets," House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas) raised their concerns of the potential economic harm that would result ...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today unanimously passed draft legislation to clarify NTIA and RUS authority to return reclaimed stimulus funds to the U.S. Treasury.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Labor reported the unemployment rate in March was 8.8 percent...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: (Munising, MICH.) Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Chief of Heritage Education Gregg Bruff has welcomed Luis Mena, of the Puntarenas region of Costa Rica, has joined the park staff as a Harvard University Climate Fellow. The one month fellowship is facilitated by the Latin American Scholar Programs...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: CBS NEWS: Yucca Mountain: did politics trump science?
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today unanimously passed draft legislation to clarify NTIA and RUS authority to return reclaimed stimulus funds to the U.S. Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: BOSTON, MA. - An Illinois man was charged and has agreed to plead guilty in federal court to conspiracy to distribute prescription drugs.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC -Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, House Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today strongly objecting to a unilateral subpoena he issued to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms’ operation related to gun trafficking into Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: Washington - USDA’s Acting Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Michael Scuse will lead 20 U.S. companies on an Agribusiness Trade and Investment Mission April 4-7, 2011, and open the Food and Hotel Indonesia Trade Show in Jakarta, Indonesia, on April 6. Both events support the...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today unanimously passed draft legislation to clarify NTIA and RUS authority to return reclaimed stimulus funds to the U.S. Treasury.
By State Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - After receiving notification that the U.S. Agency for International Development intends to spend another $20 million for “democracy promotion" programs in Cuba, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) said today that he would oppose the spending until a full review of the programs is completed. He issued the following statement:
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following video explaining today’s subpoena of the Department of Justices’ Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) for documents related to the highly controversial “Project Gunrunner."
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON DC - Reps. Pete Stark (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee and John Lewis (D-GA), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee, delivered the following statements today at joint Subcommittee hearing on Republicans’ so-called “investigative expose" of AARP...
