News from April 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: Camp Statement on March Jobs Report.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member, introduced S. 782, the Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011, bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the Economic Development Administration (EDA). The EDA was established over four decades ago to help create and maintain existing jobs, and stimulate growth in economically distressed areas of the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement in reaction to the Budget Resolution introduced by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI).
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Joint Hearing: Full Committee and Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife "Natural Gas Drilling: Public Health and Environmental Impacts" April 12, 2011 (Remarks as prepared for delivery.) Today we will examine the public health and environmental impacts of natural gas ...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing to examine the use of spectrum to expand broadband access, advance public safety, create jobs, and lower the deficit. Slade Gorton, former U.S. Senator...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing to examine the use of spectrum to expand broadband access, advance public safety, create jobs, and lower the deficit. Slade Gorton, former U.S. Senator...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Joint Hearing: Full Committee and Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety "Review of the Nuclear Emergency in Japan and Implications for the U.S." April 12, 2011 (Remarks as prepared for delivery.) Just over one month ago today, Japan was hit by a 9.0-magnitude ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) teamed with major hospitals, health care providers, employers, health plans, and patient advocates from across the country to announce a new Partnership for Patients that aims to improve quality of patient care. The new Partnership takes advantage of vital prevention and cost-saving measures in the Affordable Care Act to...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Geoff Davis (R-KY) issued the following statement today at the conclusion of today’s hearing examining a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the duplication in welfare and related programs...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) applauded a new Patient Safety Initiative announced today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). As a chief architect of the Affordable Care Act, Baucus fought to pass into law many of the patient-safety measures in the initiative. From Chairman Baucus...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: Recently, Neal Mishler, a veteran from Great Falls, Montana wrote me to lament how difficult tax compliance can be. He said...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: In tests of four different types of new refrigerators, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers found that ice makers increased rated energy consumption by 12 to 20 percent. About three-fourths of that additional energy cost is due to the electric heaters used to release the ice bits from the molds.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining tax administration around the globe...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the U.S. International Trade Commission’s study: “U.S.- Korea Free Trade Agreement: Passenger Vehicle Sector Update. " Chairman Camp requested the study on Jan. 27, 2011.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today announced that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will testify at the committee’s April 14, 2011, hearing “State and Municipal Debt: Tough Choices Ahead" to be held at 9:30 a.m. in room 2154 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: "Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Budapest, Hungary on April 13-14 to meet with her European counterparts and to participate in a European Cybercrime Forum, as well as the biannual U.S-European Union Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) Ministerial Meeting. During the meeting, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON— Stephen C. Delaney, 55, of Quincy, Mass., was found guilty on April 8, 2011, by a federal jury in Boston of falsely labeling frozen fish fillets from China.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Lieze Associates, dba Eagle Recycling of New Jersey, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Utica, N.Y., for conspiring to violate the Clean Water Act and to defraud the United States, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York and the U.S. Justice Department Environment and Natural Resources Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Farooque Ahmed, 35, of Ashburn, Va., was sentenced today to 23 years in prison, followed by 50 years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to charges stemming from his attempts to assist others whom he believed to be members of al-Qaeda in planning bombings at Metrorail stations in the Washington, D.C., area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Julius Everett “Bud” Johnson, of Richmond, Va., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Richmond for his role in an investment scheme resulting in millions of dollars in losses, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride.
