News from March 2011
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Following media reports documenting the Smithsonian museums’ widespread practice of selling gift shop items manufactured in China, U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, yesterday introduced legislation to help foster growth of American jobs by compelling the Smithsonian to sell only items made in the United States.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) issued the following joint statement after meeting at the White House with education policy makers...
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today’s committee hearing entitled “North Korea’s Sea of Fire: Bullying, Brinksmanship, and Blackmail"...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: BOSTON, MA. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Boston Field Division; U.S Attorney Ortiz; Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis; and Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph D. McDonald, Jr. announced today that TREVOR A. WATSON -, 44, of Boston, was sentenced today to the statutory maximum of 30 years in prison for the 2010 attempted murder of an active DEA informant.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Springfield, MA.On Saturday March 26th at 1:30 pm, local historian, Ms. Frances Gagnon, and Park Ranger, Richard Colton celebrate The Springfield Armory WOWs, the Women Ordnance Workers of WWI and WWII at Springfield Armory National Historic Site. Dozens of historic, archival photographs of those proud...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Work at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site to rehabilitate the site's cultural landscape as recommended in the park's 2008 General Management Plan will continue this spring. The work will include the rehabilitation of historic farm fields and installation of historic landscape features such as historic...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Dear Ambassador Kirk: Thank you for your March 9, 2011 testimony before the Senate Finance Committee. We appreciate your expressions of support for the U.S.-Colombia and the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and your acknowledgement of the progress that has been made in both countries. But we...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Harkers Island, N.C. - Acting Superintendent Mike Tranel welcomes the public to join us on Sunday, April 17, at the Harkers Island Visitor Center of Cape Lookout National Seashore, as we celebrate Junior Ranger Day and National Park Week. Scouts, home-school groups and other organizations are asked to call ahead to help us plan for your group.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to White House Counsel Robert Bauer, repeating their calls for the White House to release records of closed-door negotiations with special interest groups while writing the health care law. On Feb. 18, 2011, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - According to an analysis released today by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), legislation that passed the House (H.R. 1) to reduce government spending by $57 billion over the remainder of the fiscal year would not impact the Medicare Advantage (MA) program as Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius claimed in a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.).
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Thomas Carper (D-DE), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Bernard Sanders (I-VT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) held a press conference today with top health ...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to White House Counsel Robert Bauer, repeating their calls for the White House to release records of closed-door negotiations with special interest groups while writing the health care law. On Feb. 18, 2011, ...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy joined with the U.S. Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration (EDA) and its Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship today to announce the opening of the $12 million i6 Green Challenge, which will also be conducted in partnership with the U.S. Department...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Ways and Means Committee Democrats today introduced legislation that is vital in helping to finance infrastructure investments, grow our economy and create jobs. H.R. 992, the Building American Jobs Act of 2011, extends eight bond, tax credit and loan guarantee programs for states and municipalities, anchored by the wildly successful Build America Bonds program, which helped finance $181 billion in infrastructure projects in the last two years.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Federal Financial Management Subcommittee (FFM) Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., and FFM Ranking Member Scott Brown, R-Mass., introduced the Fire Grants Reauthorization Act of 2011 to continue funding for the Assistance to Firefighters...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., released the following statements about the discipline of nine Army officials in the wake of the Fort Hood attack by Major Nidal Hasan...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Mr. Secretary, your appearance comes at an important time. While the recession technically ended over a year and a half ago, hundreds of thousands of families continue to struggle with the burden of underwater mortgages and a weak job market. As the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power took a strong stand today in support of jobs and against higher gasoline and energy costs by approving H.R. 910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011. The bipartisan measure passed by voice vote, and no amendments were offered. The bill now moves to the full Energy and Commerce Committee for consideration, with a markup scheduled for early next week, commencing with opening statements Monday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: LAS CRUCES, NM- - DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph A. Arabit, ICE Special Agent in Charge Manuel Oyola-Torres, ATF Special Agent in Charge William Newell, and United States Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales for the District of New Mexico announced today that a federal grand jury in New Mexico has indicted...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2011
News Release: Join a National Park Service Ranger for a 2.5 guided tour from the Point of Rocks boardwalk in Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge to Devils Hole, an external unit of the National Park Service.
