News from April 2012
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: "I thank Chairman Wolf, Ranking Member Fattah, Chairman Rogers and their staffs for their hard work on this bill. The Majority worked closely with our side to put this bill together, and there were many issues where we were able to reach agreement.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) will hold a roundtable on child welfare titled “Child Well-Being in Foster Care: Examining the Relationship between Data and Efforts to effect Positive Outcomes for Children." Tomorrow’s roundtable will be the first in a series of Finance Committee roundtables discussing the challenges and opportunities in federal child welfare policy.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today made the following opening statement at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Hearing on electric reliability and the New England power outages last fall:
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm pleased that you've called this hearing today to examine the 2011 and 2012 tax extenders. However, I must note my frustration that Congress has once again allowed so many of these important tax provisions to expire. I'm also discouraged that we're just now examining the 2011...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON- The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform adopted $83 billion in deficit reduction provisions today. The taxpayer savings were adopted by the Committee to meet the goals of H. Con. Res 112, House Fiscal Year 2013 budget resolution, on a vote of 19-15.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today voted to approve the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012, a bipartisan Farm Bill authored by Committee Chairwoman Senator Debbie Stabenow and Ranking Member Senator Pat Roberts.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: Clearing the Reds Meadow/Devils Postpile road has begun. CalTrans began plowing Highway 203 from Mammoth Mountain Inn to Minaret Vista on Monday, April 23. A single lane was plowed for administrative access to Reds Meadow Valley to facilitate the cleanup and repair efforts from the November 30 wind event that blew over thousands of trees in the Reds Meadow Valley.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today delivered the following statement at the opening of the Committee’s meeting to consider and mark-up the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: "Let us stop and think about what this says about our government.".
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today said the Committee’s 2012 Farm Bill would reform Agriculture in America, saving nearly $23 billion and consolidating nearly 100 programs while ensuring critical safety nets are improved to allow farmers and ranchers to continue to meet exploding global demand for food and fiber.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, is announcing the first meeting of the House and Senate conference on the transportation bill. The first meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 8th at 3:00 pm ET in 216 Hart. Conferees will be invited to make opening statements on the bill.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: Devils Tower National Monument has temporarily closed climbing routes along the northeast face of Devils Tower beginning April 26th in order to protect Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus) possible nesting sites. This closure is an annual event established under the monument's with authority from the Migratory...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today said the committee reported out the 2012 Farm Bill, officially called the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act, which reduces spending on agriculture programs ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 26, 2012
Release: By Jana Mikulasova, FAS Agricultural Specialist, S. Embassy Prague.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statements regarding missing privacy safeguards and the lack of critical infrastructure protection in legislation slated for consideration during 'Cyber Week'. Ranking Member...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Hess Corporation has agreed to pay an $850,000 civil penalty and spend more than $45 million in new pollution controls to resolve Clean Air Act violations at its Port Reading, N.J., refinery, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. Once ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2012
News Release: A federal court in New Orleans has permanently barred Cathy and Lashanda Vinnett from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which the Vinnetts agreed without admitting the government’s allegations, was signed by Judge Helen G. Berrigan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2012
News Release: Anthony L. Dinunzio, 53, of East Boston, Mass., the alleged leader of the New England organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra (NELCN), was arrested today on racketeering and extortion charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Three operators of a Miami health care agency were sentenced today to 120, 87 and 87 months in prison, respectively, for their participation in a $60 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former managing director for Morgan Stanley’s real estate business in China pleaded guilty today for his role in a conspiracy to evade the company’s internal accounting controls, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch for the Eastern District of New York; and Janice Fedarcyk, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office.
