News from July 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WICHITA, KS. - Barry Grissom, United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, announced that twelve people have been indicted on heroin trafficking charges in an indictment unsealed in Wichita on July 7, 2011.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) are pressing Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko for more answers and documents as part of their investigation into the Obama administration’s...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: BULLHEAD CITY, Ariz. - The National Park Service has identified the man who died as a result of injuries from a Thursday morning single motor vehicle accident as Tylor Krabbe, 20, of Kingman, Ariz. Krabbe and his passenger, a 19-year-old man from Kingman, had been in the park recreating on Lake Mohave. They were leaving the park when the accident occurred on Katherine Landing Access Road sometime between 2:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. Thursday.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - With great summer weather predicted for the weekend it will be a great time to come up and enjoy Glacier National Park. All of the campgrounds are open and some have been filling in the late afternoon, so plan to arrive early to secure a site. Most services in the park are open. Sun Tours and the Red Buses are operating with modified routes until the full opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road anticipated on Wednesday, July 13.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after the monthly jobs and unemployment numbers were released for June...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 8, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding the latest unemployment numbers from the U.S. Department of Labor.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today* announced that manufacturing industry executive Michael F. Molnar has been appointed to be the agency's first-ever Chief Manufacturing Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that on July 7, 2011, a federal grand jury sitting in Benton, IL, returned an indictment charging Antwon Lasean Brooks, 32, of Chicago, IL, with a single count of possession with the intent to distribute heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: (Washington, D.C.)-On Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 2:30 p.m., Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will convene a forum to examine illegal foreclosures against U.S. service members and their families.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), held a joint hearing today with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform’s Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending. The hearing examined the negative consequences the Department of Education’s gainful employment regulation will have on student choice and job creation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: Today’s hearing illustrates a basic question of right and wrong. Social Security has never contributed a dime to the nation’s $14.3 trillion debt…not one penny to our federal budget deficit this year or any year in our nation’s history. Yet some in this town insist that we should cut Social Security...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: Park Superintendent Darlene M. Koontz announced today that the main road through Lassen Volcanic National Park will not be open for through traffic for at least another week. Park road crews have cleared snow past the Lassen Peak parking area and are proceeding downhill towards Kings Creek Meadows. “We...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved legislation to hold the Obama administration accountable for the total cost of EPA’s wave of biggest rules. H.R. 2401, the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act, or TRAIN Act, was approved by the subcommittee by voice vote. The bipartisan bill now moves to the full Energy and Commerce Committee for consideration.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) are pressing Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko for more answers and documents as part of their investigation into the Obama administration’s...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved legislation to hold the Obama administration accountable for the total cost of EPA’s wave of biggest rules. H.R. 2401, the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act, or TRAIN Act, was approved by the subcommittee by voice vote. The bipartisan bill now moves to the full Energy and Commerce Committee for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Albert Lamberti, Sheriff, Broward County, announce the indictment of seven South Florida residents for their participation...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Due to the onset of monsoons and recent precipitation the National Park Service (NPS) lifted fire restrictions on the South and North Rims of Grand Canyon National Park effective immediately. Fire conditions within the park have moderated, with cooler temperatures and precipitation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON)-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement on the June unemployment report released today...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved legislation to hold the Obama administration accountable for the total cost of EPA’s wave of biggest rules. H.R. 2401, the Transparency in Regulatory Analysis of Impacts on the Nation Act, or TRAIN Act, was approved by the subcommittee by voice vote. The bipartisan bill now moves to the full Energy and Commerce Committee for consideration.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: On Saturday, July 16th, 2011Fort Union National Monument will hostits annual First Fort Tours.Constructed in 1851, Fort Union established a permanent U.S.military presence in the area to protect trade and traffic on the Santa Fe Trail, and for the protection of the people in the nearby townships and...
