News from March 2011
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Thursday convened a hearing to examine specific steps that can be taken to create new jobs, as well as to bring jobs back to the United States from abroad. Witnesses repeatedly testified that unfair taxes and burdensome regulations are stifling economic growth.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: A team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists has given growers in the Piedmont guidance on how to restore degraded soils and make the land productive. Researchers with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) found that if cattle are managed so that they graze moderately, soil quality can be restored and emissions of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) can be reduced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today convened a hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to discuss the president’s fiscal year 2012 budget requests and implementation of the health care law. This was Secretary Sebelius’ first time testifying before the subcommittee since the passage of the health care package.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: At Fort Stanwix, it was hard work for soldiers to survive the cold New York winter and spring. Soldiers endured the hardships of winter with ragged clothing, rotted bedding and blankets, and the knowledge that enemy raiding parties could still attack at any time. Yet the work had to continue. Throughout...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today convened a hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to discuss the president’s fiscal year 2012 budget requests and implementation of the health care law. This was Secretary Sebelius’ first time testifying before the subcommittee since the passage of the health care package.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: Floor Remarks of Senator Barbara Boxer
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement in response to the Senate's passage of H.R. 662, the Surface Transportation Act of 2011, which extends surface transportation programs under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Committee on Ways and Means approved two separate pieces of legislation to repeal the onerous 1099 reporting provisions enacted in 2010. At the conclusion of the markup and approval of both H.R. 4, the “Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011," and H.R. 705, the “Comprehensive 1099 Taxpayer Protection and Repayment of Exchange Subsidy Overpayments Act of 2011," Chairman Camp made the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: Former Biscayne National Park volunteer and current employee Thomas M. Strom has seen the park’s nooks and crannies - above the water, below the water, in hidden channels and behind the scenes. Biscayne: Revealed is his first show, and offers a sampling of a few of the 8,000 images he has donated to...
By State Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement on the possible removal of Nobel-winning microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus as Managing Director of the Grameen Bank, which he founded:
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican and Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives today introduced the Energy Tax Prevention Act (H.R. 910), a bill to block EPA’s controversial backdoor climate change agenda that would further drive up the price of energy for American consumers and job creators...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At a hearing of the Senate Agriculture Committee on implementation of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform derivatives regulations, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Ranking Member, today said regulations must lower systemic risk and avoid creating unnecessarily high risk management costs for producers and businesses.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican and Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives today introduced the Energy Tax Prevention Act (H.R. 910), a bill to block EPA’s controversial backdoor climate change agenda that would further drive up the price of energy for American consumers and job creators...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: BUFFALO, NY. - John P. Gilbride, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Buffalo has returned a 35-count indictment charging twelve defendants, six of whom are members...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Thursday convened a hearing to examine specific steps that can be taken to create new jobs, as well as to bring jobs back to the United States from abroad. Witnesses repeatedly testified that unfair taxes and burdensome regulations are stifling economic growth.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: BUFFALO, NY. - Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) John P. Gilbride and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced last night that Michael McCallum, 24, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal Complaint with robbery of a pharmacy...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Media Contact: Liz Friedlander (202) 225-1564. Congressional action necessary to prevent significant cost to economy. Today, Reps. Bob Gibbs, R-Ohio, Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, and Joe Baca, D-Calif., introduced H.R. 872, a bipartisan bill to reduce the regulatory burdens posed by the case National Cotton...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Time to simplify the tax code.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal jury in Decatur, Ala., has convicted Eddie Pressley, a former U.S. Army Major, and his wife, Eurica Pressley, on 22 counts in connection with a bribery and money laundering scheme related to defense contracts awarded in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An agreement has been reached with the city of Des Moines, Iowa, and the Des Moines Public Library, to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with disabilities, the Justice Department today announced. The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department’s wide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
