News from March 2011
By USDA Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 300,000 metric tons of hard red winter wheat for delivery to Iraq during the 2010/2011 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and senior Committee member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today applauded the Senate’s passage of their bill to protect taxpayers and fight tax evasion as part of a larger Senate patent reform bill. The bill prevents any individual or...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) kicked off a new subset of his series of tax reform hearings today by considering the tax code’s effect on job creation and widespread economic growth. Today’s hearing and the examination of the reasons for reform are part of a regular series Baucus began last year to look at ways to make the code more competitive and fair, while making it less complex.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: Fire management staff at Rocky Mountain National Park will be reducing fuels around the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, park housing area and adjacent buildings to better meet Firewise standards pertaining to defensible space to protect structures. Work will include limbing trees, removing ladder fuels...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By USDA Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today hosted a media conference call to highlight the benefits to U.S. agriculture of the U.S.-Korea Trade Agreement (KORUS) now pending before Congress. The Obama Administration concluded trade negotiations with South Korea in December 2010, setting the...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 8, 2011 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) appeared on Fox News’ Your World with Neil Cavuto to discuss the Committee’s upcoming hearings on rising gasoline prices and the need to limit U.S. dependence on foreign sources by increasing domestic energy production and creating American energy jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: BOSTON, MA. - A Fitchburg man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for conspiracy and distribution of cocaine base.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Me., the Chairman and Ranking Member, respectively, of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today introduced legislation that would provide expanded protection against lawsuits for citizens who report suspicious...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s failure to provide an adequate economic or market analysis in the commission’s order to impose controversial Internet rules. Chairman Fred...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By EPA Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a vote on H.R. 910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011. The subcommittee markup will be held on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s failure to provide an adequate economic or market analysis in the commission’s order to impose controversial Internet rules. Chairman Fred...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a vote on H.R. 910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011. The subcommittee markup will be held on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a follow-up letter sent today to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Ranking Member James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) raised concerns with...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today released the following statement in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s failure to provide an adequate economic or market analysis in the commission’s order to impose controversial Internet rules. Chairman Fred...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a vote on H.R. 910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011. The subcommittee markup will be held on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 9:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This spring, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national and community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, April 30th, ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: 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 Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 8, 2011 - Today, the Department of Energy’s independent U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released their latest Short Term Energy Outlook for projected crude oil production in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) and net U.S. imports (see charts below). Despite the misleading comments...
