News from November 2011
By EPA Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement after the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to the health care law...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement regarding the Credit Card Fair Fee Act of 2008, which the House Judiciary Committee reported to the House at the end of the 110th Congress...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement after the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to the health care law...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement after the Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to the health care law...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - During the upcoming winter holiday season, the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville National Historic Site will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24, 2011; Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 2011; and New Years Day, Jan. 1, 2012.The park entrance, prison site, and picnic area will be closed on these three days.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Pete Stark (D-CA) made the following statements regarding the Supreme Court's decision to consider legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) commented today following the decision by the Working Party on the Accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to approve the terms of Russia’s accession. Their decision clears the last hurdle before WTO ministers can formally invite Russia into the WTO, which is expected to happen next month. From the Finance Committee leaders...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2011
News Release: In FY 2011, Denver Service Center successfully managed $1.8 billion in project work-the highest volume of project work in its history. The significant work volume is due to the substantial amount awarded in fiscal year 2010, a total of $716 million. In FY11, many of the projects awarded in FY10 were under construction. In addition, DSC awarded $255 million with a 82% obligation rate in FY11.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2011
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area's Artist-in-Residence Program is seeking submissions from professional plein air artists to apply for the park's 2012 residencies. Selected artists will have the opportunity to spend up to four weeks in the artists' cabin at Whiskeytown to produce new works. Whiskeytown is one of fewer than thirty Artist-in-Residence programs in the national park system.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 11, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "I was saddened to learn of the crash earlier today that took the life of Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora, along with seven others. Their families are in my thoughts and prayers. Secretary Blake Mora was a strong ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 11, 2011
News Release: Monocacy National Battlefield will join with the Frederick Historic Sites Consortium and 22 historic sites in Frederick County to kick off the holiday season.Visit Monocacy National Battlefield on Dec. 10, 2011 betweennoon and 5pm and make a Christmas ornament while visiting the museum. The event is free.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after Japan expressed interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this afternoon received a series of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee on Nov. 3, 2011. The committee served subpoenas to the Executive Offices of the President and Vice President...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 11, 2011 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Rep. Don Young (AK-at large) announced plans to introduce the to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for future energy production and job creation.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this afternoon received a series of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee on Nov. 3, 2011. The committee served subpoenas to the Executive Offices of the President and Vice President...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this afternoon received a series of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee on Nov. 3, 2011. The committee served subpoenas to the Executive Offices of the President and Vice President...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) today issued the following statements on the announcement made by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Reps. Levin and McDermott are at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Honolulu.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 10, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 NASSAU, The Bahamas—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano traveled to Nassau, The Bahamas on Nov. 9-10, to deliver the keynote address at the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) Dialogue and meet with Bahamian Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham to underscore the Obama administration’s commitment to strengthening bilateral cooperation and facilitating trade and tourism.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 10, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 “Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Oslo, Norway, and Stockholm, Sweden, Nov. 14-15, to meet with international partners and discuss the Department’s ongoing collaboration with the two countries on cybersecurity ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The two managers and operators of a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-area halfway house company pleaded guilty today for their 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).
