News from June 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: SACRAMENTO, CA -- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that a grand jury in Sacramento returned two separate indictments today, charging a total of 12 defendants in connection with two large commercial marijuana...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Camp, Brady Say Colombia’s Labor Rights Progress Shows it is Time For the Administration to Send the Colombia Trade Agreement to Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - The Committee on Ways and Means today marked up the Report on Legislative and Oversight Activities for the Committee. The report, which was approved by the Committee favorably, details the committee’s actions taken through May 31, 2011, and reveals a near singular focus on legislation that promotes job creation. Discussing the report, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: FARMINGTON, Pa., - The National Park Service will commemorate the Braddock campaign at Fort Necessity National Battlefield on Saturday, July 9, the 256th anniversary of "Braddock's Defeat." Park staff and First Allies Living History Group of the Oneida Indian Nation will present programs detailing the...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT - Park Officials announce the Going-to-the-Sun Road Transit System will begin operations on July 1. On the west side of the park a modified shuttle schedule will operate daily, from 7:00am to 5:00pm, until the entire Going-to-the-Sun Road is open to vehicles and the full transit schedule...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to the President, the Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee laid out their opposition to including expanded Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) in the U.S.- South Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and laid out their position that the three trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia, and TAA should be “debated and considered in the Senate on its merits.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: The Finance Committee will not be able to conduct a mark-up today. Committee rules require a quorum, which must include at least one Member of each party.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Members, led by Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Ranking Member Xavier Becerra (D-CA), sent a letter to Social Security Administration (SSA) Inspector General Patrick O’Carroll inquiring into recent press reports which have raised concerns about decisions made by a Social Security administrative law judge (ALJ).
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after providing public notice for a hearing next week. The hearing will examine the National Labor Relations Board’s proposal to make sweeping changes to union election procedures."
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - On June 23, 2011, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced that its 28 member countries would release 60 million barrels of crude oil and refined products into the global market. As part of that action, the President directed the Department of Energy to auction 30.237 million barrels of light, sweet crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Yesterday, bids were received.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Heritage Inns, Inc., of Gettysburg, has donated an unusual artifact to Gettysburg National Military Park - a lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair. The lock of hair was collected by Dr. Robert K. Stone during the autopsy conducted following President Lincoln's death. This framed lock of hair was later presented by Dr. Stone to Enoch Pratt, a prominent unionist and philanthropist in Baltimore. The hair is framed and dated by Dr. Stone, "April 1865.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released a public letter he sent to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demanding information about its recent investigation into certain donations to non-profit organizations and the agency’s apparent drive to impose gift taxes on these monies. Camp questioned the process leading up to this action and level of involvement by the Obama Administration.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released the May jobs report...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) issued the following statement in response to news that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will no longer accept applications...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: By swapping one superconducting material for another, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have found a practical way to boost the efficiency of the world's fastest single-photon detector, while also extending light sensitivity to longer wavelengths. The new tungsten-silicon...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Republicans today are celebrating over the underfunding of the federal unemployment insurance system. They fail to note, however, that they are ensuring more debt and ultimately a diminished ability to provide benefits to Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Read the Opening Statement of Congressman Elijah E. Cummings
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Statue of Liberty National Monument will celebrate 125 years of "Liberty Enlightening the World" beginning October 28. To commemorate this historic event, the National Park Service (NPS) has announced that on July 4 the park will launch Liberty's 125th Anniversary Logo Contest. The public will be able to vote for its favorite logo for the year-long celebration whose theme is "Honor History, Envision the Future.".
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: On Monday, July 4 at 10:00 a.m., Fire Island National Seashore is offering a program about the life and times of one of New York's four signers of the Declaration of Independence. Patriot William Floyd dared to sign this historic document despite the risk of losing his house, his property, and even his head! But did he really sign on the fourth of July?
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - In a report requested by Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-IA) that was released last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that participation in the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) return to work program, known as Ticket to Work, while improved, remains low and that the SSA has not managed the program effectively.
