News from February 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander M. Levin (D-MI), issued the following statement as prepared for delivery at a hearing today on the Affordable Care Act and Medicare...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today announced he is inviting tribal leaders to a Native American Transportation, Infrastructure, and Economic Development Roundtable.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: The U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee held a hearing today to learn from state and local leaders in education and examine the federal role in the day-to-day operation of the nation’s classrooms.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ―Park Superintendent Mitzi frank announces that Petrified Forest National Park will be changing to longer spring hours on Feb. 27, 2011. The park will open at 7:00 am and close at 6:00 pm Mountain Standard Time (MST) daily. The Painted Desert Visitor Center and the Rainbow Forest...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: Today at the House Judiciary Immigration Subcommittee hearing on “E-Verify-Preserving Jobs for American Workers," Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) argued that making E-Verify mandatory and continuing to pursue an enforcement-only approach would not fix the country’s broken immigration system and do nothing to solve the country’s problems.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- Two weeks after President Obama focused on innovation in his State of the Union address, the U.S. Department of Energy announced today that former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will keynote the second annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. Designed to bring together key...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service has approved an increase in camping fees at Chickasaw National Recreation Area. The new rates will go into effect March 1, 2011. Before implementing this change to camping fees, the park solicited input from the public. The park also conducted a local comparability study and found that park campground rates were lower than most other campgrounds in the region. The camping fees will increase $2.00 for individual sites and $6.00 for group sites.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Wednesday, February 9, at approximately 4:00 p.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report of a separated party in the vicinity of the Yavapai Geology Museum. The reporting party stated that upon his return from the men's room, he could not locate his wife.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), issued the following statement as prepared for delivery at a Subcommittee hearing today on improving efforts to help unemployed Americans find jobs...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: A researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has invented a method of making high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables that are thinner and more flexible than demonstration HTS cables now installed in the electric power grid while carrying the same or more current. The compact cables could be used in the electric grid as well as scientific and medical equipment and may enable HTS power transmission for military applications.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: Beckley, West Virginia. -30-
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA. - Andre Jamaal Guyton, of Ludowici, Georgia, was sentenced by District Court Judge William T. Moore Jr. to 210 months imprisonment following his conviction on two counts of distributing controlled substances in Liberty County. The case was tried before Judge Moore on Oct. 13, 2010, and he announced the sentence on February 4, 2011. The evidence at trial showed that Guyton distributed ecstasy and cocaine in September 2009.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: “Good morning. Thank you Chairman Lucas for holding today’s hearing and welcome, Chairman Gensler, to the Committee. Today we are discussing the implementation of Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: As the National Park Service prepares for the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the staff and volunteers of Fort Sumter National Monument are presenting monthly talks at the Fort Moultrie Visitor Center on Sullivan’s Island. Entitled Impending War, this lecture series takes a deeper look at the antebellum...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
Release: Washington, DC, Feb. 10, 2011 - USDA People's Garden Director Livia Marqués, Washington Capitals Defensemen and 2011 NHL All-Star Mike Green, Comcast SportsNet analyst Alan May and Powell Elementary School Principal Janeece Docal launched a People's Garden Workshop today to design a garden at the school. Teachers, parents and every student in the school - 289 children from pre-Kindergarten to 4th grade - participated in the design process led by USDA employees.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), Democratic Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today called on Congress to stop wasting time and taxpayer dollars on partisan resolutions and instead return to focusing on creating American jobs. Speaking...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Ways and Means Committee held a hearing about the effect of the health reform law on Medicare and Medicare beneficiaries. The committee heard testimony from Donald M. Berwick, M.D., Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; and Richard S. Foster, Chief Actuary of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: CNBC: Chairman Upton Highlights the “Energy Tax Prevention Act" to Protect American Jobs and Families from EPA Regulations
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams, announced that a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today charging Gerardo Norzagaray-Pereda, 31, of Mexico, and Armando Sanchez-Ornelas, 23, of Phoenix, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Power Subcommittee today held a hearing on “The Effects of Middle East Events on U.S. Energy Markets." The panel, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), focused on steps the U.S. could take to reduce our reliance on energy imported from the Middle East.
