News from December 2011
By DOT News Wire | Dec 6, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Dec. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON)-Oversight and Government Reform Committee leaders today called attention to a clear conflict of interest involving a widely-quoted source used by Committee Democratic members in support of President Obama’s health care law.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are showing Arizona cotton growers how to reduce their dependence on broad-spectrum insecticides by controlling sweetpotato whiteflies with greener alternatives.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
Release: USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon today announced a new range of aggressive tactics to further improve program integrity of USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - formerly known as food stamps. The announcement is part of the Obama Administration's ongoing Campaign to Cut Waste which highlights...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - This morning, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order directing the Bonneville Power Administration-a federal agency responsible for the sale and transmission of wholesale electricity in eight Western states-to revise its transmission tariffs for wind generators in...
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: My position on sanctioning Iran’s Central Bank has been intentionally distorted for purely political reasons. So let me set the record straight.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following remarks during a Joint Senate Finance-House Ways and Means Committee hearing on tax reform and the tax treatment of financial products...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: Joint Hearing on the Tax Treatment of Financial Products.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent 75 days on the job carrying out some very important homework-measurements in a "typical dwelling" of the release, distribution and fate of particles almost as tiny as the diameter of a single DNA molecule. Particles ranging in size from 100 nanometers down to 2.5 nanometers that were emitted by gas and electric stoves, hair dryers, power tools and candles were tracked and analyzed.*
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1021, the “Temporary Bankruptcy Judgeships Extension Act of 2011." The bill extends by 5 years the authorizations for 30 temporary bankruptcy judgeships in 20 judicial districts around the country. Included in the bill is an amendment authored by Ranking ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s George Arnold and John Suehle have been named fellows of the IEEE, one of the world's major professional organizations dedicated to the advancement of technology.*
By DOL Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement after the Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration issued their final report on the tragedy at the Upper Big Branch mine, citing an irresponsible corporate culture as the root cause of the disaster and fining the mine’s owner, Massey Energy, more than $10 million dollars...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today delivered a statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate calling for Congress to extend unemployment benefits. On Thursday, Harkin will convene a HELP Committee hearing to hear from Americans facing long-term unemployment, and examine the barriers and challenges they face in finding reemployment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, and Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims announced that Ernson Merisier, 27, of Holbrook, Mass.; Marquis Allen Meca, 27; and Ruddys A. Pimentel, 29, both of Roslindale, ...
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today issued the following statement on the Obama Administration’s decision to send Ambassador Robert Ford back to Damascus:
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: Dear Majority Leader Reid, Minority Leader McConnell, Chairman Johnson, and Ranking Member Shelby...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., December 6, 2011 - Today, the Committee on Natural Resources held a full committee oversight hearing to examine how excessive Endangered Species Act (ESA) related litigation impacts species recovery, job creation and the economy. This was the first hearing in series that will be held by the Committee to take a fair look at the ways in which the ESA is working well and areas where it could be improved and updated.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending, issued the statements below on a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finding that banks are not properly maintaining a growing number of vacant and foreclosed properties nationwide.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released its final report on the 2010 Upper Big Branch mining disaster...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today examined the tax treatment of financial products and considered how tax reform can address the potential use of financial instruments to avoid tax liability. At a joint hearing of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means...
