News from December 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: ALBANY, NY. - Wilbert L. Plummer, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced the arrest of twelve arrests for alleged cocaine drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Today, the House Judiciary Committee is considering H.R. 3261, the “Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA), a bill to combat online intellectual property theft and protect American jobs and consumers. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, joined Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, in his investigation of “gray market" companies that trade in drugs in critically short supply.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Park Providing Additional Staffing During Holiday Season.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced that the number of winter farmers markets is increasing. According to the updated National Farmers Market Directory, since 2010, the number of winter markets has increased 38 percent, from 886 to 1,225. These winter markets also account for nearly 17 percent of the nation’s 7,222 operating farmers markets (Note: The reported number of farmers markets has been updated since August 2011).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: An interagency team of biologists closely monitoring the returns of fish to the Elwha River have determined that the late fall runs of chum salmon have trickled to a end, allowing contractors to begin dam removal work two weeks earlier than projected. A planned stoppage of sediment-releasing dam removal work has been in place since November 1 to protect fish runs in the river. There are three such work stoppages, also known as "fish windows" throughout the year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Brian R. Crowell, the Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Paul J. Fishman, the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced Joan Manuel Pina Dominguez, 20, a/k/a “Christian Colon," admitted conspiring with others to operate a heroin manufacturing and distribution mill out of a home in West New York, N.J.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Randy King invites the public to join a Park Ranger to learn the art of snowshoeing in the winter wonderland of Paradise and learn about the ecology of the area. During the upcoming holiday break, the guided walks will be offered daily December 17 through January...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), along with ten additional Senators, introduced legislation today to continue building trade relationships between the U.S. and sub-Saharan nations by extending the life of the African Growth...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce are taking action to improve the nation’s workforce investment system. Rep. Joe Heck (R-NV) recently introduced the Local Job Opportunities and Business Success (JOBS) Act (H.R. 3611). The legislation increases the role of employers in workforce development decisions to help workers receive training for jobs that are in demand.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: MANHATTAN, NY. - Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Wilbert L. Plummer and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New (NYPD), late...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Bipartisan members of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce today introduced a bill to promote the expanded development and use of hydropower. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Diana DeGette (D-CO) co-authored H.R. 3680, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2011, to help facilitate and advance hydropower projects across the country.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - This afternoon, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) delivered a speech at the International Engagement Conference for South Sudan.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Clevon “Ty" Johnson, age 38, of Cambridge, Maryland, to 11 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, after Johnson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine and to violating his supervised release in connection with a previous federal drug conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: SYRACUSE, NY. - Wilbert L. Plummer, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced the dismantlement and seizure of a marijuana grow operation located in Herkimer County.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that states and territories across the nation have reached the goal of weatherizing more than 600,000 low-income homes- including more than 125,000 multi-family homes like apartment buildings - more than three months ahead of schedule.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Energy Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman spoke at the Tokyo American Center today about nuclear power after Fukushima.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- In his final “Chairman’s Corner" column, Earl Devaney, top watchdog on the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and head of the President’s Government Accountability and Transparency Board, endorsed legislation that would take his successful Recovery Board model and expand it government-wide to combat waste, fraud and abuse.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Bipartisan members of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce today introduced a bill to promote the expanded development and use of hydropower. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Diana DeGette (D-CO) co-authored H.R. 3680, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2011, to help facilitate and advance hydropower projects across the country.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Joint Hearing: Full Committee and Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety "Review of the NRC's Near-Term Task Force Recommendations for Enhancing Reactor Safety in the 21st Century" Dec. 15, 2011 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) It is the responsibility ...
