News from January 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today released a new video, launching www.AmericanJobCreators.com, to listen to the personal stories of constituents, Californians and nationwide job creators about how government impacts job creation directly to Washington.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today set out new rules and practices to guide the Committee in the 112th Congress as it plays a lead role in replacing Obamacare, fortifying the nation’s energy security, rolling back job-destroying...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined Reps. Greg Walden (R-OR) and Lee Terry (R-NE), Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, respectively, in releasing the following statement upon Verizon’s court challenge against the Federal Communications Commission’s effort to regulate the Internet...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: BOISE - - Law enforcement officials from the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), the Nampa Police Department, the District of Idaho U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Canyon County Prosecutor’s Office announced that in the early morning hours of Jan. 14, 2011, federal agents and local authorities from 10 law...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman-designate Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today released a letter sent to the director of the new Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) seeking information about...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released language of legislation they intend to introduce to protect taxpayers and fight tax evasion. The bill would prevent any individual or firm from being able to receive patents on tax...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman-designate Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today released a letter sent to the director of the new Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO) seeking information about...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: Good morning. I want to welcome the Members of the Committee, staff, and guests to the Organizational Meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee for the 112th Congress. The Chair will recognize himself for a few opening remarks.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined Reps. Greg Walden (R-OR) and Lee Terry (R-NE), Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, respectively, in releasing the following statement upon Verizon’s court challenge against the Federal Communications Commission’s effort to regulate the Internet...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today set out new rules and practices to guide the Committee in the 112th Congress as it plays a lead role in replacing Obamacare, fortifying the nation’s energy security, rolling back job-destroying...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: Good morning. I want to welcome the Members of the Committee, staff, and guests to the Organizational Meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee for the 112th Congress. The Chair will recognize himself for a few opening remarks.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: Good morning. I want to welcome the Members of the Committee, staff, and guests to the Organizational Meeting of the House Energy and Commerce Committee for the 112th Congress. The Chair will recognize himself for a few opening remarks.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined Reps. Greg Walden (R-OR) and Lee Terry (R-NE), Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, respectively, in releasing the following statement upon Verizon’s court challenge against the Federal Communications Commission’s effort to regulate the Internet...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today set out new rules and practices to guide the Committee in the 112th Congress as it plays a lead role in replacing Obamacare, fortifying the nation’s energy security, rolling back job-destroying...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: National Park Service Regional Director John Wessels has announced that Weekend Warrior Outdoors, LLC (WWO) will operate the Elk Creek and Lake Fork Marinas at Curecanti National Recreation Area, providing boat and slip rentals, guiding service, food and beverage, retail, and other services. The sale and transfer of the existing contract became effective on Jan. 11, 2011, and will be in effect for the remaining five years of the original 10 year contract.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "The very existence of the Department of Homeland Security is due in large part to Senator Lieberman. Dating back to the first days after 9/11, he has been an instrumental architect of the very way we work to keep America safe ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A U.S. Army contracting officer was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Christine M. Arguello in Denver to 60 months in prison for accepting money and items of value in return for being influenced in the awarding of Army contracts, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that Orland Park, Ill., property owner Terence Flanagan has agreed to pay $35,000 in monetary damages and civil penalties to settle consolidated Fair Housing Act lawsuits against him. The lawsuits alleged that Flanagan discriminated against a family ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Faruq Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa, 38, also known as “Faruk Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa,” “Sayfildin Tahir Sharif,” and “Tahir Sharif Sayfildin,” was arrested in Canada today pursuant to a U.S. provisional arrest warrant, based on a complaint in the United States charging him with conspiring to kill ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON –A Lufkin, Texas, man pleaded guilty today to charges related to a double homicide that took place in Nacogdoches, Texas, in August 2007, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales for the Eastern District of Texas.
