News from February 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: Today, Reps. Earl Blumenauer, Ed Markey, John Conyers, Jim Moran, Lois Capps, Peter Welch and David Price and others introduced legislation to cut the budget by ending roughly $40 billion over five years in wasteful subsidies to the oil industry. The “Ending Big Oil Tax Subsidies Act" (H.R. 601) eliminates...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: Patricia M. Wissinger has been named the new superintendent of Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. Wissinger assumed her new duties on Nov. 22, 2010.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today announced the Chairman and Ranking Member of each subcommittee. In addition to the subcommittee assignments for the Full Committee, Camp also announced that appointment of the following Republican and Democratic Members to serve on the committees and official advisory groups outlined below for the 112th Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: Camp Calls on Administration to Act on Pending Trade Agreements.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist Pat Millner and safety manager David Prevar have worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and private consultants to design and conduct a pilot study for an alternative way to cap landfills.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Next week tens of thousands of American workers will no longer have the Trade Adjustment Assistance program available to them and would be denied vital retraining benefits because of Republican infighting in the U.S. House. The nearly 50-year-old Trade Adjustment Assistance program,...
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today’s committee briefing entitled “Recent Developments in Egypt and Lebanon: Implications for U.S. Policy and Allies in the Broader Middle East, Part I"...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, Daniel W.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: Washington DC - Today, Congressman Devin Nunes (CA-21) and Senator Richard Burr (NC) announced the House introduction of the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act. Companion legislation will be introduced in the Senate next week.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC- Ranking Member, Norm Dicks gave the following statement in response to the list of cuts released by the Republican Majority.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) welcomed today’s announcement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) of a $750 million investment in disease prevention and wellness, funded through the Prevention and Public Health Fund established by the Affordable Care Act. He is Chairman of...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee today convened its first hearing to investigate ObamaCare and its consequences for the American workforce and economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: NORWALK, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Robert Treglia, 47, formerly of North Taylor Avenue, Norwalk, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by six years of supervised release, for his role in a narcotics distribution conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA), issued the following statement today at a hearing on the Administration’s trade policy agenda...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Federal Bureau of (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Anthony V. Mangione, U.S. Immigration and Customs...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today convened the Committee on Ways and Means for its first hearing of the 112th Congress on health care. The hearing included testimony of the small employer businesses and economists. In response to the hearing, Camp said...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 9, 2011 Sen. Murkowski Introduces Fix to Help Small Miners WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Small Miner Waiver Clarification Act was reintroduced today by Alaska’s U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich. The legislation would clarify federal mining law to remedy a problem that ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: Hatch, Grassley, Davis Release GAO Report on Child Support Enforcement Program.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: Camp, Davis Respond to Administration’s Unemployment Insurance Tax Hike Proposal.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2011
News Release: U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member...
