News from June 2011
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: A new exhibit entitled "Views & Visitors: The Yosemite Experience in the Early 20th Century," will open to the public on Wednesday, June 8, 2011. It will run until Oct. 31, 2011. The exhibit will be in the Yosemite Valley Museum (adjacent to the Yosemite Valley Visitor Center) and will feature photographs...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement on the release of the latest unemployment data...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: Bryce Canyon National Park Superintendent Jeff Bradybaugh invites you to join the park in our second annual Utah Prairie Dog Day celebration.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: Over the last months, there has been a great deal of discussion about the need for tax reform - a discussion that I welcome. Twenty-five years ago, I was not yet on the Ways & Means Committee, but I took a keen interest in the work that went into the Tax Reform Act of 1986. In 1985, the Ways & Means Committee held 30 days of full committee hearings on tax reform, followed by 26 days of mark-up. Members debated every aspect of the tax code, often provision by provision.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: Due to the recent outbreak of Equine Herpes Virus Type 1 (EHV-1) in northern Utah, Bryce Canyon National Park has restricted the entry and use of private horses and mules for recreational riding from May 20 through June 4, 2011.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 3, 2011 - Apparently Minority Whip Steny Hoyer doesn’t know how many job creating bills he’s been voting against this Congress. Today, in a statement on rising unemployment, the Minority Whip claimed that the Republican majority had yet to bring a job creating bill to the floor of the House-nothing could be further from the truth.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON -Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) will travel to Colombia next week to review conditions on the ground as they relate to the implementation of the April U.S.-Colombia agreement on worker rights and unaddressed violence issues (the Action Plan). He plans to arrive Monday for a five-day visit.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: On Tuesday, June 7 at 9:00 a.m. CST, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN), will join Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-IN) in hosting the fourth field hearing of the 112th Congress. The field hearing, entitled "The Recent Healthcare Law: Consequences for Indiana Families and Workers," will take place at the Vanderburgh County Civic Center, located at 1 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., in Evansville, Indiana.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: Cummings Warms to the Task of Being Issa's Foil on Oversight Panel
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Human Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) issued the following statements regarding the May jobs report released today...
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to this resolution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO. - Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mexican national pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to grow thousands of marijuana plants in two large plots near Gower, Missouri. Serafin Rodriguez Gonzalez, 24, of Kansas City, Kansas, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to the charge contained in an Aug. 10, 2010, federal indictment.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: Copper Center, Alaska - The lightning-caused Gilahina Fire continued to burn on Thursday, but gained little acreage. The cooler temperatures with higher humidity made for less active fire behavior. A fly-over late afternoon showed very little smoke being generated by the fire. The drift smoke in the...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: Washington - Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced approximately $10 million in funding for the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) to help increase availability of local agricultural products in communities throughout the country.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: National Park Service Northeast Regional Director Dennis R. Reidenbach has named Tina Orcutt superintendent of Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, Maryland and Hampton National Historic Site in Towson, Maryland. Orcutt currently serves as superintendent of Women’s Rights...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans expressed strong opposition to the Department of Education's gainful employment regulation. In a series of press statements released this week, committee members criticized the administration's assault on student choice and the workforce, and pledged to fight the burdensome, job-destroying regulation. Read statement excerpts below...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee that has jurisdiction over Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, today reiterated his call that Medicare must be on the table in any negotiations to reduce the nation’s over $14 trillion debt. Hatch issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: BENTON, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Jeffrey Todd Chenoweth, R.Ph., 40, of Newton, Ill., and David Sherman Lustig, R.Ph., 72, of Effingham, Illinois, have each pled guilty to an indictment charging each with felonies - illegal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: Today, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) opposed the Republican balanced budget proposal that would enshrine special interest tax loopholes into the Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2011
News Release: Today, at the House Judiciary markup of H.J. Res 1, the Republican balanced budget constitutional amendment, Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), offered an amendment that would exempt Medicare from the draconian budget proposal.
