News from December 2012
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following comment regarding the Obama administration’s release of its final environmental impact statement (EIS) on the land management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, called on President Obama to withdraw the Administration's proposal to waive welfare work requirements and to work in a bipartisan fashion with Congress to conduct a robust reform and reexamination of the 16-year-old Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, also known as welfare.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON- Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Senators Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., introduced legislation Wednesday granting Washington D.C. full statehood, including full voter representation in Congress for its residents.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: PORTLAND, OR - Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Oregon/Washington State Director Jerome Perez announced today his selection of Ms. Abbie Jossie as the new District Manager of the BLM Roseburg District in southwestern Oregon.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following statement at the Rules Committee hearing on Speaker Boehner’s so called “plan B" legislation...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager announced today that funding is available to preserve and revitalize USDA-financed rural rental housing.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: The online Atomic Spectra Database (ASD) provides the most authoritative information about atomic spectra available anywhere, and it is used by researchers worldwide. But how wide, exactly, is that world? What elements and wavelengths are in highest demand by different groups? And how can the ASD better serve its user community?
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed 30 members to serve on the National Potato Promotion Board. Each member will serve a three-year term of office beginning March 1, 2013.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,000 metric tons of hard red winter wheat for delivery to Egypt during the 2012/2013 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: Washington D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, filed an amicus brief in the contempt lawsuit brought by House Republicans against Attorney General Eric H. Holder relating to Operation Fast and Furious. Cummings was joined by three...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved with bipartisan support several key Energy and Committee initiatives that help children with rare pediatric and genetic diseases, support pediatric medical residency programs, and improve the nation’s preparedness infrastructure, fostering the development of medical countermeasures to better respond to terrorist attacks.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON -U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the ongoing situation of the fiscal cliff and the critical need for bipartisan action to avert this looming crisis...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved with bipartisan support several key Energy and Committee initiatives that help children with rare pediatric and genetic diseases, support pediatric medical residency programs, and improve the nation’s preparedness infrastructure, fostering the development of medical countermeasures to better respond to terrorist attacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge, New York Division U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced that John Tebbetts, 33, of, Floyd, NY, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to possession with the intent to distribute controlled substances, controlled substance analogues, and engaging in a monetary transaction in property derived from specified unlawful activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today the House of Representatives advanced several transparency and accountability government reforms into law.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved with bipartisan support several key Energy and Committee initiatives that help children with rare pediatric and genetic diseases, support pediatric medical residency programs, and improve the nation’s preparedness infrastructure, fostering the development of medical countermeasures to better respond to terrorist attacks.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin, Human Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett, House Democrats, and Rhode Island Senator Jack Reed today called on Congress to renew the federal unemployment insurance through next year. If the program is not renewed, more than 2 million Americans will lose their insurance on Dec. 29. Below are excerpts from the participants at the press conference...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2012
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jose Espinoza, 30, Clinton, Wisconsin was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Barbara...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2012
News Release: St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 17, 2012…Through a collaborative partnership with Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, 426 second through sixth grade students from Maplewood Richmond Heights Elementary recently had a unique opportunity to learn about the roles and functions of National Park Service museum personnel...
