News published on Federal Newswire in December 2012

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today named Amber Cottle as the new Democratic Staff Director for the Senate Finance Committee, where she will lead the committee’s day-to-day operations and serve as the chief strategist for long-term policy plans. A five year veteran of the Finance Committee, Cottle was promoted from her position as the committee’s Chief International Trade Counsel.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following remarks during floor debate on the so-called Republican “Plan B"...

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) tonight issued the following statement in response to House Speaker John Boehner’s failed attempt to push through his so called “Plan B"...

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement on the proposal House Republicans introduced in the middle of the night to replace part of the upcoming sequester with cuts that will dramatically slash services and benefits to children, seniors and the disabled.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., spoke during debate on H.R. 6684, the Spending Reduction Act of 2012. Reforms in the bill originating with the Oversight and Government Reform Committee would save taxpayers $80 billion over 10 years according...

By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) delivered the following statement at a hearing this morning following the release of the independent Accountability Review Board report earlier this week.

By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: U.S. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn., today announced four new Democratic members appointed to the Committee for the 113th Congress.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: FORKS, Wash. - A ground crew representing federal, state and tribal agencies set out today for a large dock that washed ashore from the ocean in a rugged section of the Olympic National Park / Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary shoreline.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 20, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today named Subcommittee Chairmen for the 113th Congress and also announced the establishment of a new Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today released a new video - “HGH: Why Should Football Fans Care?" - underscoring the growing risk human growth hormone (HGH) abuse poses to the health and safety of players and the young fans emulating them. On Dec. 12, 2012, former...

By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: WASHINGTON-Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Thursday received the highest honor a civilian can receive from the Central Intelligence Agency, the Agency Seal Medal, as well as the Director’s Award, the only award the CIA Director can give.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: In a speech on leadership delivered more than 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt said...

By US DOT Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall, top Democrat on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today released the roster of Committee Democrats for the 113th Congress which includes 10 new members compared to the current Congress. Democrats are gaining an additional seat on the Committee in the new Congress which will bring the ratio of Republicans to Democrats to 33-27.

By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: WASHINGTON - The nationwide search for a "Jane Doe" suspected child pornographer, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI ), ended with the arrest of an Okaloosa County, Fla., woman on federal charges for child pornography production.

By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to speak in support of the Spending Reduction Act of 2012. Nearly $100 billion in savings over the next decade that the Energy and Commerce Committee identified were...

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to speak in support of the Spending Reduction Act of 2012. Nearly $100 billion in savings over the next decade that the Energy and Commerce Committee identified were...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp sentenced Jose Manuel (41, Orlando) to life in prison...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: Today, John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, joined Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, in filing an amicus brief in the contempt lawsuit brought by House Republicans against Attorney General ...

By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: Plane Last Accounted For Flying Near North Dome in Park on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. Yosemite National Park continues the search for a single engine plane that may have gone missing over the park on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. The plane was last detected via radar in the afternoon on Dec. 17, near the North Dome area in the park.

By US DOT Newswire | Dec 20, 2012

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Senate and the House of Representatives passed her bill to designate the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), located at 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., as the "William Jefferson Clinton Federal Building." The legislation will now go to President Obama to be signed into law.