News from July 2011
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a business meeting on Thursday, July 14, 2011, to consider a motion authorizing the issuance of a subpoena for certain records of the Office and Management and Budget relating...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C.- The U.S. House of Representatives today passed bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the Committee, and U.S. Representative John Mica (R-FL), Chairman of the Committee, aimed at reining in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) overreach in the Clean Water Act permitting process that is threatening the future of coal mining jobs and communities throughout Appalachia.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC- Today Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Representatives Henry A. Waxman, Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Edward J. Markey, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, released a new report ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a business meeting on Thursday, July 14, 2011, to consider a motion authorizing the issuance of a subpoena for certain records of the Office and Management and Budget relating...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: Bonus bids for a total of 32,180 acres (19,292 acres in North Dakota and 12,788 acres in South Dakota) at the Bureau of Land Management's July 12 oil and gas lease sale in Billings totaled $66,259,552.00.Two North Dakota parcels received the highest bid per acre of $8,800, which were submitted by Irish...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today announced the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a business meeting on Thursday, July 14, 2011, to consider a motion authorizing the issuance of a subpoena for certain records of the Office and Management and Budget relating...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Full Committee Hearing: "Oversight Hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency's Implementation of the Safe Drinking Water Act's Unregulated Drinking Water Contaminants Program" July 12, 2011 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) I have called this hearing to examine ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: "Thank you Mr. Chairman. "Two months ago I stood before this committee and noted that because of the 302(b) allocations, funding conversations on important programs with subcommittee chairman would involve them saying we made a good point and they wished they could help but they were constrained by...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved legislation calling for a comprehensive review of proposed and recently issued regulations that have the potential to impose tens of billions in compliance costs, eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs, drive up the price of energy, and reduce U.S. competitiveness in an increasingly global economy.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Jim Moran, Northern Virginia Democrat released the following statement in advance of the July 12th Appropriations Committee markup of the FY 2012 Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Deputy Attorney General James Cole issued the following statement today regarding information requests for multiple sales of semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines in select states along the Southwest Border: “The international expansion and increased violence of transnational criminal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two Michigan residents pleaded guilty to tax evasion, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. A federal grand jury in Detroit returned an indictment against David A. Cusumano and Henry Nino in January 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A husband and wife from Mathews County, Va., were sentenced today for conspiring to impair and obstruct the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the ascertainment and assessment of federal income taxes from 2001 through 2010, the Justice Department and the IRS announced. John Scott Miles was ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – PRIDE Industries, and its subsidiary, PRIDE Industries One, has agreed to pay the United States $400,000 to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted false claims relating to a contract to provide maintenance services at the Department of the Army’s Ft. Bliss Army Base in El Paso, Texas, the Justice Department announced today.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement regarding record temperatures across the country: "Record heat is hitting the nation, putting outdoor workers at risk of heat-related illnesses, including heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Plan now so that you can take ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: P. Gioioso & Sons Inc. repeatedly cited for unprotected trenches and excavations ANDOVER, Mass. – A Hyde Park contractor with a long history of violating workplace safety standards faces a total of $354,000 in new proposed fines from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Obama administration today launched from New Orleans, La., Strong Cities, Strong Communities, to be known as SC2, a customized pilot initiative to strengthen capacity and spark economic growth in local communities, while ensuring taxpayer dollars are used wisely and efficiently. To accomplish ...
By Fed News Journal | Jul 11, 2011
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on July 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Jul 11, 2011
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on July 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
