News from January 2011
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: (*Ranking Member). Agriculture. *Sam Farr, California. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut. Sanford Bishop, Georgia. Marcy Kaptur, Ohio. Commerce, Justice, Science. *Chaka Fattah, Pennsylvania. Adam Schiff, California. Mike Honda, California. José Serrano, New York. Defense. *Norm Dicks, Washington. Pete Visclosky...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MO. - Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two former St. Robert, Missouri, residents have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute prescription drugs through Internet pharmacy Web sites.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after the U.S. House of Representatives passed with bipartisan support legislation that will repeal the Democrats’ government takeover of health care...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: Bats play a significant role in the natural world and this biological function is being threatened by a disease that has already killed off millions of bats in the northeast United States. A new video recently released by Great Smoky Mountains National Park describes park bat and cave resources and the...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: POINT MARION, Pa., The National Park Service invites area residents and visitors to a Sestercentennial Birthday Celebration for Albert Gallatin Saturday, January 29 at 2 p.m. at his Fayette County home at Friendship Hill National Historic Site.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: Electron microscopes are among the most widely used scientific and medical tools for studying and understanding a wide range of materials, from biological tissue to miniature magnetic devices, at tiny levels of detail. Now, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: Reducing the amount of feed given to young female cows called heifers can result in more efficient use of nutrients for growth and reproduction, according to studies conducted by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: The quantum computers of tomorrow might use photons, or particles of light, to move around the data they need to make calculations, but photons are tricky to work with. Two new papers* by researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have brought science closer to creating reliable sources of photons for these long-heralded devices.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: At a January 7, 2011 forum with Silicon Valley business and academic leaders at Stanford University, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt announced plans to create a National Program Office to help foster an environment in which sensitive online transactions can be carried out with greater levels of trust.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement today upon House approval of H.R. 2, legislation to repeal Obamacare...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
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By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, made the following statement today on the House floor in support of the effort to repeal Obamacare (H.R. 2):
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: Superintendent Doug Neighbor has announced proposed improvements to the North Crater Flow Trail and rehabilitation of the Lava Flow Campground. Both projects are intended to increase accessibility and to improve visitor experience and resource protection.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Democratic Members of theWays and Means Committee met to establish recommendations for Subcommittee leadership and assignments for the 112th Congress. Ranking Member selections are still subject to ratification by the Steering and Policy Committee and Democratic Caucus.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released the following statement today upon House approval of H.R. 2, legislation to repeal Obamacare...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: Washington D.C. - In response to the $16 billion share-swap announced last week between BP and state-owned Russian oil company Rosneft, today Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner requesting that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS)...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, made the following statement today on the House floor in support of the effort to repeal Obamacare (H.R. 2):
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: Media Contact:. Liz Friedlander (202) 225-1564. U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., today announced the Democratic members who will serve on the Agriculture Committee during the 112th Congress. “The Agriculture Committee oversees a wide range of issues, including...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: (*Ranking Member). Agriculture. *Sam Farr, California. Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut. Sanford Bishop, Georgia. Marcy Kaptur, Ohio. Commerce, Justice, Science. *Chaka Fattah, Pennsylvania. Adam Schiff, California. Mike Honda, California. José Serrano, New York. Defense. *Norm Dicks, Washington. Pete Visclosky...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Monique Ware and her cousin, Gene Anderson, both 31, and both from Northeast Washington, were sentenced to prison terms on federal charges involving the sale of PCP, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police (MPD), and Ava A. Cooper-Davis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA).
