News from March 2011
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: On Thursday, March 17 at 10:00 a.m., the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing entitled, "Education Regulations: Roadblocks to Student Choice in Higher Education." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: The Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency's primary private-sector advisory group, has sent its 2010 annual report to Congress.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: The U.S. House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), held a hearing today to examine the negative impact intrusive federal paperwork requirements have on teachers, administrators, and students in elementary and secondary schools.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its final report on its study of the June 18, 2007, fire at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., that trapped and killed nine firefighters, the highest number of firefighter deaths in a single event since 9/11. The final report...
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 Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., and Federal Financial Management Subcommittee Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., Tuesday urged the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to heed the recommendations of a...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the below statement, following the announcement of staff selections for the Committee.
By Commerce 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 DOE 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 USDA Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today issued the below statement following a meeting with Committee Members, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and other EPW Committee members released the following statement in response to the full House Energy and Commerce Committee's approval of a bill that would permanently block the Environmental Protection ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) Donna Dodson has received the 2011 Federal 100 Award. Presented by Federal Computer Week, the award honors the top professionals in the federal information technology community.
By Commerce 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 Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Physicists at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have for the first time caused a gas of atoms to exhibit an important quantum phenomenon known as spin-orbit coupling. Their technique opens new possibilities for studying and better understanding fundamental physics and has potential applications to quantum computing, next-generation "spintronics" devices and even "atomtronic" devices built from ultracold atoms.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2011
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded the release of the initial report from the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, or MACPAC. This panel of health care experts will provide ongoing study of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park announces the 4th annual LBJ 100 Bicycle Tour, "A Ride to Preserve History," which begins on the historic LBJ Ranch airstrip near Stonewall, Texas on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. The tour provides four separate routes of 10, 30, 44 and 65 miles throughout the scenic Texas Hill Country and one special historical tour narrated by Luci Baines Johnson beginning at approximately 2:30 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - A new GAO report today released by Reps. Sander Levin, Henry A. Waxman, Pete Stark, Charles B. Rangel, John Lewis, and Diana DeGette shows that prior to passage of landmark health care reform legislation in March 2010, prescription drug prices were increasing at rates well above the inflation rate.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C — The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced the opening of a 30-day comment period to solicit public input on whether any existing significant regulations should be modified, streamlined, expanded, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Boston, Mass.—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today visited Cambridge and Boston, Mass. to deliver remarks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) underscoring the vital role of science and technology ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — A New Jersey industrial pipe supply company and its owner pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to commit fraud and pay bribes to a purchasing manager at Consolidated Edison of New York (Con Edison) in return for the manager’s efforts to steer contracts to the company, the Department of Justice announced today.
