News from March 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is co-hosting a conference to explore the current health information technology security landscape and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. The conference on "Safeguarding Health Information: Building...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Effective March 31, 2011, Canyonlands National Park will implement a new permit fee for private river trips on the Green and Colorado Rivers within the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: HELENA, MT. - The United States Attorney for the District of Montana, Michael W. Cotter, announced today the culmination of a 18-month multi-agency investigation into the drug trafficking activities of criminal enterprises operating throughout the State of Montana. In furtherance of that investigation, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Harkers Island, NC. Cape Lookout National Seashore Acting Superintendent Mike Tranel announces that six relocated Shackleford horses are seeking loving, permanent homes on the mainland.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: FRENSO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced today that Sokha Bhopal, aka Balwinder Singh Bhopal, 51, of Punjab, India, was sentenced on March 14, 2011, to seven years and two months in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute cocaine and possessing cocaine with intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Tomorrow, the House Committee on Government Reform will continue its examination of the regulatory burdens placed on private sector job creators.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today released the following statement after the House approved a continuing resolution to fund the government through April 8, 2011...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: CLEVELAND, OH - A federal grand jury returned a 50-count indictment against 28 people who are accused of participating in a large cocaine trafficking ring operating in the Ashtabula, Ohio area since 2008. Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Robert L. Corso, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Fort Frederica National Monument Superintendent Mary Beth Wester is pleased to announce an upcoming program highlighting the continuum of history on the Georgia Coast. On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 5:30 pm, historian Jon Burpee will present a program entitled Frederica, 1736. This illustrated talk...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC- Ranking Member, Norm Dicks gave the following statement on H.J. Res. 48, a short-term continuing resolution that provides funding for the Government through April 8th, 2011.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Media Contact: Liz Friedlander, 202-225-1564 liz.friedlander@mail.house.gov – Today, the House Agriculture Committee adopted the budget views and estimates letter, which outlines the committee's budget recommendations for the agencies...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host the Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop III on April 7-8, 2011, at its Gaithersburg, Md., campus. Featured speakers include U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf and NIST Director Patrick Gallagher.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - In a bipartisan and bicameral effort to bring job creation to the forefront of the tax reform debate for American businesses and families, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued statements today following the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams announced that Eduardo Medina-Mendoza, aka Eduardo Nunez Medina, 48, of Guerrero, Mexico, entered a guilty plea yesterday to conspiring to manufacture or cultivate, to distribute, and to possess with intent to distribute 18,174 marijuana plants on unimproved land in Coarsegold, Calif.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Registration is now open for the eighth international Frontiers of Characterization and Metrology for Nanoelectronics conference, cosponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which will take place May 23-26, 2011, at the MINATEC campus in Grenoble, France. Experts from industry, government and academia will examine the latest advances in characterization and metrology that will help shape the future of nanoelectronics.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to examine an end-of-life planning provision included in a Medicare regulation last fall. The regulations were subsequently removed from the final rule after their existence was revealed. On March 3, 2011, Sebelius admitted to publishing this regulation without notice or public comment.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to examine an end-of-life planning provision included in a Medicare regulation last fall. The regulations were subsequently removed from the final rule after their existence was revealed. On March 3, 2011, Sebelius admitted to publishing this regulation without notice or public comment.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today passed the Energy Tax Prevention Act (H.R. 910) and H.J.Res. 37, a congressional resolution disapproving the Federal Communications Commission’s Internet rules. These bills are designed to rein in overreaching...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Opening Remarks by Ranking Member John W. Olver.
