News from March 2011
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA), the Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies, released the following statement after General James N. Mattis testified at the first subcommittee hearing in the 112th Congress. General Mattis, the combatant commander for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) was on Capitol Hill to discuss the Fiscal Year 2012 budget request submitted to Congress.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation has extended the public review and comment period for two recently released draft environmental assessments associated with Glen Canyon Dam to Friday, March 18, 2011.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall, top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today pressed the head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water on the agency’s inconsistent and unfair surface coal mine permitting process at an oversight hearing on the Administration’s fiscal year 2012 budget request for the EPA.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: The U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will offer approximately 40 wild horses ranging from yearling to 5 years old to potential adopters on March 25-26, 2011, at the Vanderburgh County 4H Fairgrounds located at 201 East Boonville-New Harmony Road. You can adopt a Mustang, a...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: South Florida’s National Parks are being invaded by aliens! They’re not little green men from outer space though. Lionfish, pythons, iguanas and a slew of exotic plants are just a few of the many alien species wreaking havoc on the South Florida ecosystem. On March 13, Biscayne National Park’s multi-award-...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 2, 2011 - Yesterday, during a Natural Resources Committee hearing on the Administration’s “Wild Lands" order, Chairman Doc Hastings questioned Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Bob Abbey on the Administration’s legal authority to prioritize “Wild Lands" above other multiple-uses of BLM lands.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. -During this morning’s foreign affairs budget hearing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) again called for Colonel Moammar Qadhafi to step down and urged consideration of a no-fly zone over Libya.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland-College Park, have for the first time caused a gas of atoms to exhibit an important quantum phenomenon known as spin-orbit coupling.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Responding to yet more revelations from a investigative series in The New York Times on natural gas extraction, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, and Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), the top Democrat on the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today issued the following statement on the Upton-Inhofe bill that would increase pollution and promote the importation of millions of barrels of foreign oil per day by negating advanced fuel economy standards...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site announces that it recently upgraded its lighting fixtures at the Old Orchard home in an effort to reduce energy consumption and enhance exhibit lighting. Two projects were undertaken; one resulted in the replacement of outdated fluorescent light fixtures throughout...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 2, 2011 - Indian and Alaskan Native Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Don Young (AK-At Large) and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) will today introduce to cap attorney fees in the Cobell v. Salazar Settlement Agreement at $50 million.
By State Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - During today’s foreign affairs budget hearing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) unveiled plans to develop a new package of significant financial assistance to promote democracy and economic transformation in the Arab world.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., announced their intention Wednesday to conduct oversight and hold a hearing on duplication and inefficiencies in federal programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today brought two top federal investigators before the Committee at a hearing on the implementation of the unprecedented new tools to fight fraud, waste and abuse included in the health care law. Baucus stressed the need for measurable...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Today, at a hearing on “Making Immigration Work for American Minorities," House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) rejected the argument that widespread job displacement among African Americans is a result from immigration.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: (Washington, DC) - Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (MD-07), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, is pleased to announce that the hearing he requested, will be hosted by the Committee Tuesday, March 8, 2011 in Baltimore, MD. The hearing, entitled “The Foreclosure Crisis," will take place at the University Of Maryland School Of Law.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Democratic Congressmen will today introduce legislation that would compel oil and gas companies to produce on the drilling leases they already own, instead of continuing the practice by the oil and gas industry to "squat" on their leased lands without producing. The legislation, the...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment today held an oversight hearing on the Administration’s budget request and priorities for fiscal year 2012 for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today convened the first in a series of hearings to examine how to improve employment opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities.
