News from April 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just a little over two years after the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill began, the first criminal charges were filed today against a former BP engineer for deleting texts regarding the rate of oil spilling from the blown-out Macondo well.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: On Thursday, April 19, 2012, Miami-Dade County awarded its 2012 William Lyman Phillips Award to Biscayne National Park. The award, presented at the Mayor's Reception of the 2012 Great Park Summit, is given for excellence in park, recreation and conservation open space planning and design in Miami-Dade County.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining the anatomy of a Medicare fraud bust - from investigation to conviction...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) this week joined Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Michael B. Enzi (R-WY) and Senate Subcommittee on Employment ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rep. Norm Dicks made the following comments after release of the House FY13 Subcommittee 302(b) Allocations for FY2013.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: During the summer of 2011, the Division of Cultural Resources at Fort Stanwix National Monument began a long-term archeological resource study to determine the best procedures for preserving the park's buried cultural resources. The initial field season included a systematic archeological survey of the...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after Senate Democrats defeated a resolution that would have blocked changes to long-standing rules governing union elections that were recently approved by the National Labor Relations Board...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: On Friday - at 9 a.m. - Republicans will continue their push to end the Medicare guarantee with a Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing. Three facts that they should know...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC--Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Fred Thompson (R-TN) announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on serious and long standing management problems at the Department of Defense (DOD). The Committee will explore solutions to reported incidents of waste, fraud, abuse...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: Superintendent Mary Gibson Scott announced that due to ongoing construction, the multi-use pathway that parallels Highway 26/89/191 from the Gros Ventre River to Moose Junction within Grand Teton National Park will not open to public use until early summer. The entire 12.5-mile pathway from Jackson to...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Starting in May and continuing through September, the National Park Service will be applying herbicide to targeted, high priority, invasive plant species as part of an ongoing invasive plant management program in Grand Canyon National Park.
By State Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: Washington DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, commemorated the 97th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by emphasizing his commitment to achieving US recognition of the Ottoman genocide against the Armenian people.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the Ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, today asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct its first review of the government’s coal leasing program since 1994.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee Chairman Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, introduced legislation Tuesday to give the District of Columbia greater control over its budget so that the city can be managed more effectively.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: Federal Court Comes to on Mojave Cross Court Case.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of Senate Committee on Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry, and Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), the Committee’s Ranking Member, today said that the USDA’s proven firewalls and internationally recognized safeguards that protect against potential cases of BSE ...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing their investigation into the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s management, members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko a letter yesterday seeking information related to the NRC’s governance, including the chairman’s role as principal executive officer.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is extending the deadline for nominations for 16 positions on its three Resource Advisory Councils (RACs) in Oregon and Washington. Nominations must be submitted by June 4, 2012. RACs are citizen-based groups that make recommendations to the BLM regarding public land...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, issued the following statement regarding the postponement of tomorrow morning’s farm bill mark-up.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Chairwoman of Senate Committee on Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry, and Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), the Committee’s Ranking Member, today said that the USDA’s proven firewalls and internationally recognized safeguards that protect against potential ...
