News from January 2011
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to provide greater transparency and certainty in the reactor license renewal process. Although the NRC timeline for renewal is typically 22 to 30...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member, announced the EPW committee roster for the 112th Congress...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting specific legislation he would be willing to sign to achieve meaningful medical malpractice reform.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: The Committee’s Republican members used the hearing to press Sunstein on conflicting statements from the administration about whether this supposedly new approach to regulating would apply across the federal government, and to dig deeper into some recent regulatory controversies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting specific legislation he would be willing to sign to achieve meaningful medical malpractice reform.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Mike Enzi (R-WY), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), tonight released the following joint statement after President Obama called for education reform in his State of the Union address...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: The Committee’s Republican members used the hearing to press Sunstein on conflicting statements from the administration about whether this supposedly new approach to regulating would apply across the federal government, and to dig deeper into some recent regulatory controversies.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to President Barack Obama requesting specific legislation he would be willing to sign to achieve meaningful medical malpractice reform.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to provide greater transparency and certainty in the reactor license renewal process. Although the NRC timeline for renewal is typically 22 to 30...
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in reaction to reports David Kato, a Ugandan gay rights advocate, has been killed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: BUFFALO, NY. - United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division John P. Gilbride and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that fourteen individuals were charged in criminal complaints in connection with the use of fraudulently issued and forged...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – HOVENSA LLC, owner of the second largest petroleum refinery in the United States, has agreed to pay a $5.375 million civil penalty and spend more than $700 million in new pollution controls to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, refinery, the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder today met with Defending Childhood representatives from eight communities across the country to discuss local efforts to address children’s exposure to violence. The week-long Defending Childhood meeting brought together the initiative’s eight demonstration sites ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Detroit-area patient recruiter was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today. Melvin Young, 57, was also sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patrick J. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Deputy Attorney General James Cole today announced the appointment of Lisa O. Monaco as the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General and Stuart M. Goldberg as the Chief of Staff to the Deputy Attorney General.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 26, 2011
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December confirms that the economic recovery is continuing, though at a rate that has been insufficient to bring about a significant improvement in labor market conditions. Growth in household spending picked up late last year, but remains ...
By DOT News Wire | Jan 26, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jan 26, 2011
The US State Department published a two page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2011
The US Interior Department published a four page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2011
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
