News from November 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC ?Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings released the following statement regarding today’s announcement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) about new greenhouse gas emission and fuel economy standards for Model Years 2017 to 2025 vehicles...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: LAREDO, TX - Five men have been arrested following the return of a sealed indictment alleging ties to the Zeta drug cartel and charges of money laundering, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas E. Hinojosa and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The indictment, ...
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 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 briefing entitled “Righting the Enduring Wrongs of the Holocaust: Insurance Accountability and Rail Justice"...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Committee Democrats, in speeches today on the House floor, urged an extension of federal unemployment benefits. Without action before Dec. 31, more than two million Americans will be cut off unemployment insurance by early February and six million by the end of 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today hailed the House’s passage of the tax credit he has been championing since 2009 for businesses to hire veterans. Baucus authored the original credit for unemployed veterans in 2009 and introduced the VETs Jobs bill, or Veteran’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Investigators on the multi-agency San Diego Tunnel Task Force continued sifting through evidence Wednesday at a warehouse in Otay Mesa’s industrial park housing the U.S. entrance to a sophisticated passageway that runs beneath the border to a warehouse more than 400 yards away in Tijuana, Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following opening statement during floor debate on the Senate Amendment to H.R. 674...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: Tioga, Glacier Point, and Mariposa Grove Roads Reopen After Early Season Snowfall.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: CHICAGO, IL. - Twenty defendants are facing federal narcotics charges here, including five alleged members of a Chicago-based cell of the Zetas Mexican drug cartel who were responsible for transporting millions of dollars in drug proceeds between Chicago and Mexico, federal law enforcement officials...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are releasing the 2012 Fuel Economy Guide, providing consumers with information that can help them choose a more efficient new vehicle that saves them money and reduces greenhouse gas emissions. While...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today welcomed recommendations in a new GAO report regarding the Department of Energy’s nuclear fuel cycle research and development efforts. Upton requested the report with Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) and former Congressman Rick Boucher (D-VA). GAO’s review found that DOE should enhance its planning and its collaboration with industry and other countries in pursing such research and development.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today welcomed recommendations in a new GAO report regarding the Department of Energy’s nuclear fuel cycle research and development efforts. Upton requested the report with Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) and former Congressman Rick Boucher (D-VA). GAO’s review found that DOE should enhance its planning and its collaboration with industry and other countries in pursing such research and development.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: Sharpsburg, MD -- On Tuesday, December 7, 2011, law enforcement patrol at the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical discovered a restroom facility had been set on fire near the Big Slackwater Boat Ramp located in Washington County, Maryland. Park rangers along with the Maryland State Fire Marshall's...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, on “The Solyndra Failure: Views from DOE Secretary Chu." The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, and will...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 2011 (H.R. 3309) by a vote of 14 to 9, and the Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: Potomac, MD - At least three deer have been attacked by a pair of dogs off-leash in the last week as witnessed by park staff and visitors. At least one deer was killed. The first attack occurred on Friday, December 2nd, along the entrance road to Great Falls. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn), Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-Maine), Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), and Senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) reacted Tuesday to an announcement from the Postal Service that it lost $5.1 billion in Fiscal Year 2011. The loss would have been $10 billion without emergency Congressional intervention.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee has scheduled a hearing on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, on “The Solyndra Failure: Views from DOE Secretary Chu." The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, and will...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: POTOMAC, MD - Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park announces that repair work of the towpath breach near Angler's has begun. Classic Site Solutions is the primary contractor performing the work.Work is expected to be completed in fall 2012.After the 125 foot breach in the towpath is rebuilt...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, announced Wednesday they would hold a hearing to examine how insider trading laws apply to Congress.
