News from June 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - After months of calls by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) to follow his legislation and release at least 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to respond to supply disruptions from Middle East strife and increased prices on American consumers, the Obama administration today...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: Clement Stone, a great American businessman and philanthropist, once said, “Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.".
By State Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, submitted the following remarks to the Congressional Record drawing attention to the link between Iran and Syria’s violent repression of the Syrian people. Congressman Berman is working to keep the pressure on the regimes in Damascus and Tehran, and hold them accountable for their brutal actions.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders from the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a follow-up letter to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Cass Sunstein to further discuss independent agencies’ cooperation with President Obama’s Executive Order to identify and eliminate burdensome...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders from the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a follow-up letter to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Cass Sunstein to further discuss independent agencies’ cooperation with President Obama’s Executive Order to identify and eliminate burdensome...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: Watch Upton’s speech on the House floor...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued efforts to protect jobs and innovation and discussed ways to ease regulatory burdens. The subcommittee discussed draft legislation to reform the Federal Communications Commission’s processes, codifying best practices to ensure consistency from issue to issue and from one commission to the next.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: Watch Upton’s speech on the House floor...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), will hold a hearing on Friday, June 24, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “OMB’s Role in the DOE Loan Guarantee Process."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to create jobs and strengthen America’s energy security today with passage of H.R. 2021, the Jobs and Energy Permitting Act. The measure, which is part of the GOP’s American Energy Initiative, passed the House with bipartisan support by a vote of 253 to 166.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), will hold a hearing on Friday, June 24, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “OMB’s Role in the DOE Loan Guarantee Process."
By State Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: Washington DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on President Barack Obama’s speech on a the way forward in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: NORWALK, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Anthony Holley, a.k.a “BG," 31, of Monterey Place, Norwalk, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for possessing with intent to distribute narcotics.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: * Integrated RF MEMS Switch/CMOS Device: These devices will enable the next generation of communications devices to more seamlessly handle data, voice, audio and video simultaneously while supporting multiple radio frequency systems operating in several different frequency bands ranging from megahertz to gigahertz.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Responding to urgent calls from job creators across a range of industries, bipartisan members of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce have introduced H.R. 2250, the EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. The proposal, which directs EPA to develop achievable standards affecting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: CHICAGO, IL. - Thirty-eight defendants in three states are facing federal narcotics charges here and in Ohio as a result of an investigation of an alleged Chicago-based heroin and cocaine drug-trafficking organization by the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Chicago Police Department, law enforcement...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Responding to urgent calls from job creators across a range of industries, bipartisan members of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce have introduced H.R. 2250, the EPA Regulatory Relief Act of 2011. The proposal, which directs EPA to develop achievable standards affecting...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to create jobs and strengthen America’s energy security today with passage of H.R. 2021, the Jobs and Energy Permitting Act. The measure, which is part of the GOP’s American Energy Initiative, passed the House with bipartisan support by a vote of 253 to 166.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders from the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a follow-up letter to Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Cass Sunstein to further discuss independent agencies’ cooperation with President Obama’s Executive Order to identify and eliminate burdensome...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Three technologies developed by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have been recognized by R&D Magazine as among the 100 most technologically significant products to enter the marketplace in the past year.
