News from November 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: Dear Acting Director DeMarco: During the Committee’s hearing on Nov. 16, 2011, you agreed to provide the Committee with: (1) the specific statutory provision you believe prohibits the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) from allowing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce mortgage principal in all...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today cosponsored legislation that would require the Obama administration to issue a construction permit for the Keystone XL pipeline within 60 days.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, will be joined by Committee Members and transportation leaders tomorrow to unveil a major proposal to create American jobs.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska today reiterated her concerns about potential threats to the reliability of the nation’s electric grid posed by the Environmental Protection Agency’s pending regulations. Murkowski’s comments come in light of this week’s Federal Energy Regulatory ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: Hawaiʻi National Park, HI - Someone once said that volunteers aren't paid because they are priceless, and the phrase rings true at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, where a total of 1,058 volunteers have logged a cumulative 88,499 hours of priceless service this year. That's the equivalent of 43 full-time equivalent employees.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, spoke on the floor of the Senate in response to news of a settlement between Boeing and the International Association of Machinists.
By State Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC-With Kyrgyzstan set to inaugurate its next President on Dec. 1, 2011, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) issued the following statement in recognition of this historic achievement:
By DOL Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on H.R. 3094, the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act. This commonsense legislation will rein in the activist agenda of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and reaffirm key workforce protections that have been in place for decades.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - House and Senate Democrats and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis today joined with dozens of unemployed Americans to urge a renewal of the federal unemployment insurance programs, which are scheduled to begin to expire Dec. 31. Congress has never failed to renew federal unemployment insurance...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Tuesday, Nov. 22, Grand Canyon National Park passed the final inspection necessary to become the nation's second StormReady national park.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: Washington DC -At a hearing today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings questioned health and medical experts about “gray market" drug companies that buy and sell drugs in critically short supply at exorbitant prices.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WHAT: Unemployed workers, labor activists, Labor Secretary Solis and members of Congress will call for.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a key component of the House Republican Plan for America's Job Creators.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved bipartisan legislation to provide much-needed certainty for rural America. H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, passed the full committee with bipartisan support by a vote of 33 to 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Agencies with the San Diego Tunnel Task Force announced the arrest of six suspects and a record 32-ton marijuana seizure Wednesday in connection with the discovery of the most elaborate smuggling tunnel uncovered along the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved H.R. 1173, the Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act of 2011, which repeals the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Program, by a vote of 33 to 17. On Oct. 14, 2011, ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: Today, the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), held a hearing entitled, “Keeping College within Reach: Discussing Ways Institutions Can Streamline Costs and Reduce Tuition."
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved bipartisan legislation to provide much-needed certainty for rural America. H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, passed the full committee with bipartisan support by a vote of 33 to 16.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved H.R. 1173, the Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act of 2011, which repeals the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Program, by a vote of 33 to 17. On Oct. 14, 2011, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: Today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on “Constitutional Limitations on States’ Authority to Collect Sales Taxes." In the 1992 Quill Decision, the Supreme Court struck down a North Dakota law that required an out-of-state business to remit sales taxes on in-state customers because the business ...
