News from February 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today welcomed the opportunity for increased American energy production in response to news that a well containment system is now operational in the Gulf. Development of an underwater oil containment system was a key condition...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: Washington DC - Ways and Means Committee Republicans today voted for legislation that would raise taxes on middle-income families. H.R. 705, the Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011, would repeal the 1099 reporting requirement by forcing low-...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today sent a clear signal to the FCC that it overstepped its authorities granted by Congress by strongly rebuking the commission’s attempts to regulate the Internet.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today sent a clear signal to the FCC that it overstepped its authorities granted by Congress by strongly rebuking the commission’s attempts to regulate the Internet.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: On the House floor this afternoon, members debated an amendment offered by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden and Reps. Cliff Stearns, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Tom Graves to prohibit the FCC from clamping down on and regulating the Internet.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) marked the second anniversary of the stimulus bill by seeking answers from the Department of Energy (DOE) on its inaugural $535 million stimulus loan guarantee awarded in March of 2009. Solyndra, Inc. of Fremont, California, ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: On the House floor this afternoon, members debated an amendment offered by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden and Reps. Cliff Stearns, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Tom Graves to prohibit the FCC from clamping down on and regulating the Internet.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the impact of medical device regulations on patients and jobs. During the hearing, members of the subcommittee questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) marked the second anniversary of the stimulus bill by seeking answers from the Department of Energy (DOE) on its inaugural $535 million stimulus loan guarantee awarded in March of 2009. Solyndra, Inc. of Fremont, California, ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing to revise the 2001 Interim Operations Plan for the Kennecott National Historic Landmark (NHL).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO. - Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri announced that on Feb. 16, 2011, an Independence, Mo., physician has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a conspiracy to illegally distribute more than $1 million worth of OxyContin and oxycodone.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the impact of medical device regulations on patients and jobs. During the hearing, members of the subcommittee questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the impact of medical device regulations on patients and jobs. During the hearing, members of the subcommittee questioned the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today sent a clear signal to the FCC that it overstepped its authorities granted by Congress by strongly rebuking the commission’s attempts to regulate the Internet.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2011
News Release: On the House floor this afternoon, members debated an amendment offered by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden and Reps. Cliff Stearns, Mario Diaz-Balart, and Tom Graves to prohibit the FCC from clamping down on and regulating the Internet.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C. - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder today met to discuss the shooting by unknown assailants of two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents in the line of duty yesterday while driving in Mexico.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON — The United States and Croatia have today signed an Agreement on Preventing and Combating Serious Crime. The Agreement was signed on behalf of the United States by Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. On behalf of Croatia the Agreement was signed by Interior Minister Tomislav Karamarko.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder today met to discuss the shooting by unknown assailants of two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents in the line of duty yesterday while driving in Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – One hundred and two members and associates of transnational organized criminal groups operating in the United States have been charged in indictments unsealed today in Los Angeles; Santa Ana, Calif.; Miami and Denver. Today, teams of federal, state and local authorities have arrested more than 80 of the 102 charged defendants, with arrests expected to continue throughout the day.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON –Two individuals pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud for their roles in business opportunity fraud schemes, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced today.
