News from August 2012
By DOE Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- The Department of Energy today announced that 19 transformative new projects will receive a total of $43 million in funding from the Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to leverage the nation’s brightest scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs to develop breakthrough...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he requested on the Secure Communities program and its operations. The report, entitled "Secure Communities: ...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement after the House voted to extend the 2001 and 2003 income tax rates.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - On this date in 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Social Security Amendments Act establishing monthly Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) issued the following statement recognizing SSDI’s 56th anniversary.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 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 markup on.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Emeritus Charlie Rangel (D-NY), Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA), Ways and Means Member Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), and Reps. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and Karen Bass (D-CA) made the following statements...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today applauded the Senate’s passage of their bill to continue expanding U.S. trade with sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. The bill will extend a key provision of the African Growth and...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement following news that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) came to an agreement on a collective bargaining agreement.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Speaker. I yield myself as much time as I may consume.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor urging opposition to the House Republican tax rewrite bill, which would ram through huge tax cuts for the very wealthy at the expense of middle class families...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) introduced H.R. 8, the Job Protection and Recession Prevention Act, blocking scheduled tax increases at the end of the year by extending current income tax rates for one year.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement after Senate Democrats voted to raise taxes on small businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Today, Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) joined alongside Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Robert Brady (D-Pa.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), Robert Andrews (D-N.J.), and Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), to introduce as co-sponsors legislation authored by Representative ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA - The National Park Service at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, in cooperation with the U.S. Army Reserve and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is initiating important caretaking procedures this summer to preserve and protect the historic buildings and landscape of East and South Vancouver Barracks.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demanding a full accounting for the agency’s continued inability to stop tax fraud related to identity theft. A new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today praised Committee action on the Family and Business Tax Cut Certainty Act of 2012 that for the first time would pare back tax provisions known as tax “extenders" as a step towards the ultimate goal of comprehensive tax reform.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the House passed a package of bipartisan trade legislation that: (1) extends the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) third-country fabric provisions through 2015 and adds South Sudan as an eligible beneficiary country under AGOA; (2) implements non-controversial technical corrections...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), along with Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN) today sent a letter to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis requesting documents and communications related to the development of controversial guidance concerning sequestration and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 1,516,380 metric tons of corn for delivery to Mexico. Of the total, 982,980 tons is for delivery during the 2012/2013 marketing year and 533,400 tons is for delivery during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 2, 2012
News Release: Subcommittees: * Energy and Power (112th Congress) . Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) convened a second bipartisan forum on “State, Local and Federal Cooperation under the Clean Air Act.". The forum was intended to provide an opportunity for members of Congress to hear a broad...
