News from December 2011
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and a House-appointed negotiator on the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act, this week is discussing efforts to extend payroll tax relief and unemployment benefits, provide certainty for seniors and their doctors, and create jobs.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of an ongoing effort by the Energy and Commerce Committee to review and improve how the Federal Communications Commission operates, Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of House Energy and Commerce Committee members today urged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to delay expansion of the generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program. The members wrote...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today sent a letter to Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), seeking answers on the timing of his decision to recuse himself from matters related to MF Global’s bankruptcy.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ranking members of the Senate Committees on Energy and Natural Resources and Environment and Public Works Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), today joined Sens. John Hoeven (R-North Dakota) and Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) in sending a bipartisan letter ...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today expressed concern over the administration’s decision to proceed with a controversial new rule affecting the power plants that supply electricity to American families and businesses. The utility MACT rule, released today by the Environmental...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today expressed concern over the administration’s decision to proceed with a controversial new rule affecting the power plants that supply electricity to American families and businesses. The utility MACT rule, released today by the Environmental...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of House Energy and Commerce Committee members today urged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to delay expansion of the generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program. The members wrote...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of an ongoing effort by the Energy and Commerce Committee to review and improve how the Federal Communications Commission operates, Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today expressed concern over the administration’s decision to proceed with a controversial new rule affecting the power plants that supply electricity to American families and businesses. The utility MACT rule, released today by the Environmental...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of an ongoing effort by the Energy and Commerce Committee to review and improve how the Federal Communications Commission operates, Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) ...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of House Energy and Commerce Committee members today urged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to delay expansion of the generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) program. The members wrote...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced national standards to reduce harmful mercury, arsenic, lead, and other hazardous air toxics from power plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: Columbia, SC. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Kenneth Clark, 50, of Spartanburg, Anna L. Huckeba, 24, of Moore, and Ryan E. Sarquist, 28, of Moore, pled guilty today in federal court in Anderson, S.C., to conspiracy to sell controlled substances, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: The Dec. 31 expiration of the 2 percent payroll tax cut, federal unemployment insurance programs and Medicare’s sustainable growth rate will affect nearly every American family within just days. The following lays out how that would unfold should Republicans continue to block the short-term extension that passed with an overwhelming 89 Senate votes. Full state-by-state breakdowns are available below for the payroll tax cut and federal unemployment insurance programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the President signing a repeal of the three percent withholding law on certain payments made to vendors by government entities, legislation that modifies the income definition used to determine eligibility for certain health programs in the Democrats’ health care law and provisions targeted at increasing job opportunities for America’s veterans.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced they will continue their critical partnership to further strengthen the already unprecedented levels of personnel, technology, and infrastructure along the Southwest border - representing the Administration's ongoing commitment to secure the border and facilitate legitimate trade and travel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Three operators of a Miami health care agency pleaded guilty yesterday for their participation in a $60 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court in Mobile, Ala., has permanently barred Delois Warren from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. Judge Kristi K. DuBose of U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama issued the permanent injunction order.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The manager and operator of a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-area halfway house pleaded guilty yesterday for his role in a Medicare fraud kickback scheme that funneled patients to a fraudulent mental health provider, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), announced the Department of Justice, FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
