News from April 2012
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: VALLEY FORGE, PA - Valley Forge National Historical Park completed the second year of the lethal reduction phase of the White-tailed Deer Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (plan). Park staff worked with the United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders today urged their colleagues in the House of Representatives to join them in supporting legislation that would create a path forward for the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline. The House opened debate today on H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the passage of H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. The legislation passed with two key provisions from the Energy and Commerce Committee: requiring approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and providing for the safe management and reuse of coal ash. Upton issued the following statement on the bill’s passage...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the passage of H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. The legislation passed with two key provisions from the Energy and Commerce Committee: requiring approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and providing for the safe management and reuse of coal ash. Upton issued the following statement on the bill’s passage...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders today urged their colleagues in the House of Representatives to join them in supporting legislation that would create a path forward for the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline. The House opened debate today on H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Randy King advises that April 21-29 is designated as National Park Week across the nation. In celebration of this week, the Secretary of the Interior has announced that admission to all National Parks will be free during that time.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: Statement of Chairman Boxer Full Committee Hearing Entitled... "Oversight Hearing on the General Services Administration (GSA)" April 18, 2012 The latest misconduct at the General Services Administration (GSA) makes me cringe for the taxpayers who expect every agency in their government to fulfill their ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Douglas Shulman requesting details about reports that the Obama Administration will give the IRS one-half billion...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today urged President Obama to re-nominate NRC Commissioner Kristine Svinicki for another term. Commissioner Svinicki’s term ends on June 30, 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) pushed for a high-standard Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement today that will increase U.S. competitiveness and help American businesses create jobs through increased exports to some of the world’s most dynamic economies.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee advanced several pieces of legislation on unanimous voice votes, including H.R. 4257, legislation to update and improve the decade old Federal Information Security and Management Act (FISMA).
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today urged President Obama to re-nominate NRC Commissioner Kristine Svinicki for another term. Commissioner Svinicki’s term ends on June 30, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: Today, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing on “Voting Wrongs: Oversight of the Justice Department’s Voting Rights Enforcement." The purpose of the hearing was to examine the Justice Department’s recent handling of voting rights matters, including the Department’s ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: I would like to thank the U.S. Business Coalition for TPP for holding this event today to build support for TPP.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a 588-page rule that expands regulations for oil and natural gas production to add complex new requirements affecting a variety of oil and gas production operations, including hydraulically fractured wells. House Energy...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a 588-page rule that expands regulations for oil and natural gas production to add complex new requirements affecting a variety of oil and gas production operations, including hydraulically fractured wells. House Energy...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency today finalized a 588-page rule that expands regulations for oil and natural gas production to add complex new requirements affecting a variety of oil and gas production operations, including hydraulically fractured wells. House Energy...
By State Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-CA), the Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks as prepared for delivery at today’s committee hearing, “North Korea after Kim Jong-il: Still Dangerous and Erratic.".
By DOE Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders today urged their colleagues in the House of Representatives to join them in supporting legislation that would create a path forward for the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline. The House opened debate today on H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the passage of H.R. 4348, the Surface Transportation Extension Act of 2012. The legislation passed with two key provisions from the Energy and Commerce Committee: requiring approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and providing for the safe management and reuse of coal ash. Upton issued the following statement on the bill’s passage...
