News from November 2011
By DOT News Wire | Nov 9, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Nov. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Nov 9, 2011
The US State Department published a two page rule on Nov. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 10, 2011) - Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement in response to media reports that the Obama administration plans to review the route of the Keystone XL pipeline.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings sent a letter to Chairman Issa raising serious concerns with new documents that suggest that Boeing inappropriately sought to use its political influence in Congress to prevent the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from filing its enforcement action against Boeing for discriminating against its workers in Washington State.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's Interior Department today released a report highlighting areas in America which deserve increased protection by Congress. House Republicans have proposed to sell off America's public lands, and have pushed for huge giveaways of America's last special places to oil and mining companies.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: The measure was introduced last week by Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, Federal Financial Management Subcommittee Chairman Tom Carper, D-Del., and Senator Scott Brown, R-Mass.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski today took to the Senate floor to speak in favor of overturning two new federal regulations that threaten the economy at a time when the country can least afford it. Murkowski said she would support resolutions of disapproval against the Federal Communications Commission’s Internet and Broadband rule and the Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA- - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that a federal grand jury returned indictments today in two separate cases, charging violations of federal marijuana cultivating laws.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: Dear Secretary Chu: We write to request an immediate and indefinite halt to any allocation of taxpayer dollars through the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) borrowing authority enacted in the 2009 stimulus spending law, officially known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. As the respective...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: MADISON, WI. - - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Albano Xhixha, 22, Chicago, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 60 months in prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana. Xhixha pleaded guilty to this charge on September 8, 2011.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa today pressed Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Ronald Weich for documents and other information related to a false statement Weich made to Congress regarding gun walking that...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: Hawaiʻi National Park, HI - A project to repave and repair the road leading in and out of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park will begin Thurs., Nov. 10, while other road and parking lot improvements throughout the park continue.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, John V. Gillies, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Augustine Reyna, 31, of Selma, pleaded guilty today to distributing methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee continue seeking answers from administration officials about the potential impacts of EPA’s power sector rules, sending a pair of letters today exploring how the rules could affect energy security and reliability of the electric grid...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee continue seeking answers from administration officials about the potential impacts of EPA’s power sector rules, sending a pair of letters today exploring how the rules could affect energy security and reliability of the electric grid...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a bipartisan letter to the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) launching an investigation into the $267 million loan to Open Range Communications, made available by the 2002 Farm Bill. Open Range filed for bankruptcy on October 6, 2011.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In the face of the White House Counsel’s threats to defy the Energy and Commerce Committee’s subpoena for documents related to Solyndra, full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today provided the White House...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NY. - Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Wilbert L. Plummer and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced today that on November 8, 2011 a jury sitting in Albany, New York found Hector Morales, age 32, of Troy, New York, ...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican and Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to President Obama today urging him approve the Presidential Permit for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline, a project they call an “urgent priority" needed to put tens of thousands of Americans to work.
