News from November 2011
By EPA 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 US DOT Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Full Committee Business Meeting to consider S. 1813, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act November 9, 2011 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) Colleagues - as we meet today to mark up S. 1813, MAP-21, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, 70,000 ...
By EPA 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 Commerce 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 US DOT Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously approved S.1813, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21), a bill to reauthorize the nation's transportation programs for two years, illustrating broad bipartisan support for passage by the full Senate. ...
By DOE 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.
By Commerce 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 Commerce 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.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) issued the following statements on President Obama’s changes to the Head Start Program...
By EPA 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 Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three prominent scientists will present the best case yet for the end of climate skepticism in Washington and the world over the fact that the world is warming at a congressional briefing held by Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.).
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 8, 2011
News Release: Russell Senate Office Building Introduction Good morning Chairman Rockefeller, Ranking Member Hutchison, and distinguished Members of the Committee. Thank you for the opportunity to testify today about the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) on-going efforts to develop and implement a more ...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 8, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Nassau, Bahamas on Nov. 9th-10th to deliver the keynote address at the second Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI) Dialogue and meet with senior U.S. State Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A patient recruiter of a Miami health care agency pleaded guilty yesterday for her participation in a $25 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Beatriz Torres-Cruz, 50, pleaded guilty ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2011
News Release: HONOLULU – Arthur Lee Ong of Honolulu was convicted by a federal jury Monday of conspiracy to defraud the United States and tax evasion, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi presided over the case. According to evidence introduced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it will require New West Health Services Inc. to sell the majority of its commercial health-insurance business to a third-party buyer and provide additional relief in order to preserve health-insurance competition in Montana. The divestiture ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Michael Eisenberg, a resident of Long Island, N.Y., was sentenced Monday in connection with a series of fraudulent business opportunity ventures, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. Eisenberg was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Joan A. Lenard in Miami to 28 months in prison, a $7,500 fine, at least $15,000 in restitution and three years supervised release.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 8, 2011
News Release: This report updates and expands last year’s report, Exploring the Digital Nation: Home Broadband Internet Adoption in the United States, based on data from the Census Bureau’s most recent Current Population Survey (CPS) School Enrollment and Internet Use Supplement. The report also provides additional ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 8, 2011
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration announced today that an Administrative Law Judge with the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission has upheld citations issued last May to Connolly-Pacific Co.'s Pebbly Beach Quarry, located on Catalina Island, Calif. The citations have now been appealed to the Commission.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $3,448,259 grant to provide re-employment and support services to about 850 workers laid off in July due to the closure of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. facility in Union City, Tenn.
