News from January 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., announced today the full list of committee membership and subcommittee assignments and, along with the committee rules, after presiding over the organizational meeting of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee for the 112th Congress, “The Oversight...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the following Ranking Members for the six subcommittees of the Committee on Homeland Security were approved by the Committee's Democratic Caucus for the 112th Congress.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: Good afternoon and thank you Chairman Lucas for holding the first official meeting of the House Agriculture Committee in the 112th Congress. I want to congratulate you on taking over the Chairmanship of the Committee. This is perhaps the least partisan of the Committees, in part because we work very hard to listen to each other and understand each other and I look forward to continuing this relationship.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: DETROIT, MI - - Four Detroit men were sentenced last week by United States District Judge Robert H. Cleland to serve 143 years collectively after having pled guilty to charges of murder in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and conspiracy to distribute cocaine. The sentencings were announced by United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade, Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), and Chief Ronald Haddad of the Dearborn Police Department.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, will be the opening speaker at the Families USA’s 16th Annual Health Action Conference, which begins this Thursday, January 27 at 8:30am. The conference, which is expected to draw more...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ -. - Grand juries have returned multi-count indictments in five cases against 34 defendants accused of assisting Mexican drug trafficking organizations with illegally trafficking firearms from the United States to Mexico.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) today announced the Committee will meet on Thursday at 10:00 A.M. to examine how the Affordable Care Act protects consumers against insurance industry abuses. The hearing, entitled “The Affordable Care...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today released a letter sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seeking details on the temporary $5 billion Pre-Existing Condition...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield issued the following statement today regarding a federal energy tax under the Clean Air Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, made the following statement in response to the President’s State of the Union Address to Congress...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, made the following statement in response to the President’s State of the Union Address to Congress...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander M. Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today at a full Committee hearing on pending Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with Panama, South Korea and Colombia.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, made the following statement in response to the President’s State of the Union Address to Congress...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: The Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service is currently accepting applications for its 2011 Community Artist in the Parks Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: BALTIMORE, MD. - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Dr. Kenneth Riley, age 49, of Catonsville, Maryland, to 30 months in prison, followed by 10 months of home detention with electronic monitoring as part of three years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute and possess with...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 25, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement praising House passage of H. Res. 38, a resolution to reduce non-security spending to Fiscal Year 2008 levels or less.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: The Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service is currently accepting applications for its 2011 Community Artist in the Parks Program.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today released a letter sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seeking details on the temporary $5 billion Pre-Existing Condition...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield issued the following statement today regarding a federal energy tax under the Clean Air Act...
