News from November 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), 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 voice vote. On Oct. 14, ...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following last week’s National Emergency Alert System test, Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) has scheduled a bipartisan member briefing with the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Emergency Management Agency to review the test results and discuss ways to improve.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee met with leading energy policy experts this week to discuss the natural gas revolution. Hosted by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), Monday’s bipartisan Jobs and Innovation Forum explored how new technologies to capture shale gas have transformed the...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), 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 voice vote. On Oct. 14, ...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), 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 voice vote. On Oct. 14, ...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Several members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today urged Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to take all appropriate action to allow consumers to continue to have access to over-the-counter, chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-based inhalers that have already...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a report on the Workload of the Federal Communications Commission. The report is a summary of data, requested by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL), regarding the number of complaints, petitions, applications, and other pending items at the Commission.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following last week’s National Emergency Alert System test, Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) has scheduled a bipartisan member briefing with the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Emergency Management Agency to review the test results and discuss ways to improve.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their collaborators have conducted a series of studies that explore non-antibiotic methods to reduce foodborne pathogens that are found in the gut of food animals.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: Tuesday, November 15th, 2011. Press Contact: Ryan Nickel (202) 225-3481. WASHINGTON, D.C., November 15th- House Appropriations Committee Ranking Democratic Member Rep. Norm Dicks made the following statement after release of the Conference Report making Appropriations for Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a report on the Workload of the Federal Communications Commission. The report is a summary of data, requested by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL), regarding the number of complaints, petitions, applications, and other pending items at the Commission.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Several members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today urged Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to take all appropriate action to allow consumers to continue to have access to over-the-counter, chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-based inhalers that have already...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee met with leading energy policy experts this week to discuss the natural gas revolution. Hosted by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), Monday’s bipartisan Jobs and Innovation Forum explored how new technologies to capture shale gas have transformed the...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a report on the Workload of the Federal Communications Commission. The report is a summary of data, requested by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL), regarding the number of complaints, petitions, applications, and other pending items at the Commission.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee met with leading energy policy experts this week to discuss the natural gas revolution. Hosted by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), Monday’s bipartisan Jobs and Innovation Forum explored how new technologies to capture shale gas have transformed the...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Several members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today urged Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to take all appropriate action to allow consumers to continue to have access to over-the-counter, chlorofluorocarbon (CFC)-based inhalers that have already...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will lead a mission with 26 U.S. businesses to promote trade with Panama and Colombia Nov. 15-17. This is the largest delegation of U.S. companies ever to participate in a USDA agricultural trade mission. The companies represent a wide range of agricultural products including feed, poultry, dairy products, wood and forestry products, seafood, rice, agricultural equipment and more.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 OSLO, NORWAY - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today traveled to Oslo, Norway to meet with international partners and discuss the Department's ongoing collaboration with the public and private sector on issues such as cybersecurity as well as combating violent extremism and transnational crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: SANTO DOMINGO – Attorney General Eric Holder joined today with Dominican Prosecutor General Radhamés Jiménez Peña in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to announce the signing of a case-specific agreement to share approximately $7.5 million in forfeited assets between the United States and the Dominican Office of the Prosecutor General. The United States expects to recover an additional approximately $30 million in forfeited assets as part of the agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner and president of a Miami-area transportation company pleaded guilty today for her role in a Medicare fraud kickback scheme that funneled patients through a fraudulent mental health company, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), announced the Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
