News from October 2011
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved another bipartisan proposal to save jobs. The Obama administration recently issued a series of multi-billion dollar regulations affecting tens of thousands of manufacturing and industrial facilities nationwide. H.R. 2250, the EPA Regulatory...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on “Continuing Developments Regarding the Solyndra Loan Guarantee" this Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The committee recently learned that the Treasury Department...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -As part of an ongoing effort to improve the medical device review process, members of Congress recently invited innovators in the field to engage in a roundtable discussion about how the FDA’s review process impacts their ability to make these devices accessible to American patients.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: Gaithersburg, Md.- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) colleagues of Dan Shechtman joined others in the scientific community today in congratulating him on winning the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Shechtman made his astonishing discovery of a quasicrystal-an arrangement of atoms thought to be forbidden by nature-while working as a guest researcher at NIST (then known as the National Bureau of Standards) in 1982.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -As part of an ongoing effort to improve the medical device review process, members of Congress recently invited innovators in the field to engage in a roundtable discussion about how the FDA’s review process impacts their ability to make these devices accessible to American patients.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Amtrak today announced that a record 30.2 million passengers traveled on its trains in Fiscal Year 2011, far surpassing any other year on record. Despite this record ridership, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives continue to attempt to dismantle the carrier through paltry budgets and a partisan plan to privatize its operations.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on “Continuing Developments Regarding the Solyndra Loan Guarantee" this Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The committee recently learned that the Treasury Department...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: Committee on Ways and Means. “Part of this markup is clearly non-controversial. I think most if not all of us agree that the three percent withholding provision should be repealed. The provision is not narrowly targeted and would impose significant and costly burdens on federal, state, and local governments.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), continued its American Energy Initiative series with a hearing to discuss electric transmission issues. Today’s hearing examined a path forward toward building the electric infrastructure necessary to support a strong economy for future generations.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), continued its American Energy Initiative series with a hearing to discuss electric transmission issues. Today’s hearing examined a path forward toward building the electric infrastructure necessary to support a strong economy for future generations.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved another bipartisan proposal to save jobs. The Obama administration recently issued a series of multi-billion dollar regulations affecting tens of thousands of manufacturing and industrial facilities nationwide. H.R. 2250, the EPA Regulatory...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after the release of a Congressional Research Service analysis that shows that 94,500 millionaires pay a lower effective tax rate than millions of families earning less than $100,000. The full analysis is linked here.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), continued its American Energy Initiative series with a hearing to discuss electric transmission issues. Today’s hearing examined a path forward toward building the electric infrastructure necessary to support a strong economy for future generations.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved another bipartisan proposal to save jobs. The Obama administration recently issued a series of multi-billion dollar regulations affecting tens of thousands of manufacturing and industrial facilities nationwide. H.R. 2250, the EPA Regulatory...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing on “Continuing Developments Regarding the Solyndra Loan Guarantee" this Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The committee recently learned that the Treasury Department...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today welcomed strong bipartisan support in the U.S. House of Representatives for the Protect Life Act, H.R. 358. The bill, authored by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), was approved by the House by a vote of 251-172. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two House Democrats today introduced legislation targeted at the wasteful practice of excessively burning natural gas emanating from wells drilled for crude oil. The practice is becoming increasingly prevalent in places like North Dakota, as recently reported in the New York Times, but could become more widespread without intervention.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -As part of an ongoing effort to improve the medical device review process, members of Congress recently invited innovators in the field to engage in a roundtable discussion about how the FDA’s review process impacts their ability to make these devices accessible to American patients.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 13, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today welcomed strong bipartisan support in the U.S. House of Representatives for the Protect Life Act, H.R. 358. The bill, authored by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), was approved by the House by a vote of 251-172. The...
By State Newswire | Oct 13, 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 full committee mark-up of H.R. 2829, the United Nations Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act of 2011.
