News from December 2012
By Commerce News Now | Dec 7, 2012
The US Commerce Department published a four page rule on Dec. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: SEATTLE - A Burien woman was sentenced December 6, 2012, in U.S. District Court in Seattle, to five years in prison and five years of supervised release for four felony counts connected to the laundering of illegal proceeds from the drug distribution conspiracy she participated in with her husband.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: Dear Ms. Kelly-Reid: We are writing to provide comments regarding the Technical Review Panel’s August 2012 report on improving finance survey forms for for-profit institutions.[1] We fully support the Panel’s recommendation to require for-profit higher education institutions to report additional financial...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released employment data for November...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: Colorado National Monument's Visitor Center will be temporarily closed on Tuesday, December 11. This temporary building closure will allow for shutting down the main power supply in the visitor center as part of an electrical upgrade, and installation of a new fire suppression and alarm system.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) today sought information from the U.S. Coast Guard regarding BP and Transocean’s plan to re-inspect the underwater wreckage and the well head from the Deepwater Horizon disaster using subsea remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The need to re-inspect the area stems from the detection of an oil sheen on Nov. 2, 2012, the second such incident inside of two months.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - More than one year after an investigation by National Public Radio revealed widespread and troubling abuses of the foster care system in South Dakota as it relates to Indian children in the state, conditions in the state are reportedly getting worse. Accordingly, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.)...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: Looking for a unique gift idea for the holidays? A Rocky Mountain National Park Annual Pass is a great gift for that person who enjoys visiting the park or would like to visit more often.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park opened the 2013 Call for Submissions for the Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency program today. A call for submission is posted at www.nps.gov/klgo/artist-in-residence.htm and will be open for artists to apply until Feb. 1, 2013. Three artists, one Canadian...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: At Dawn We Sleep. By Joseph I. Lieberman and Susan Collins. Op-Ed Contributors. Published: December 6, 2012. If you read the newspapers on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, you would have been led to believe that Japan was poised to attack - but in Southeast Asia, not Pearl Harbor. Few experts believed that...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - Luis Alberto Oregon-Sanchez, 25, of Yakima, Washington, was sentenced December 6, 2012, for manufacturing more than 100 marijuana plants, a crime to which he had previously pleaded guilty. Senior United States District Judge Fred Van Sickle imposed a five year term of imprisonment to be followed by a four year term of court supervision upon Oregon-Sanchez' release from Federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists seeking information on the role of this industry association in assisting compounding pharmacies in their interactions with federal and state authorities. A bipartisan group...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists seeking information on the role of this industry association in assisting compounding pharmacies in their interactions with federal and state authorities. A bipartisan group...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Michigan) issued the following statement after the White House convened a call this morning with the charitable giving community...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 115,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2012/2013 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its schedule for the week of Dec. 10, 2012. The committee will hold hearings to exercise oversight over new spectrum auction authority Congress gave the FCC this year and implementation of the health care law’s exchanges and Medicaid expansion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced the results of “Project Below the Beltway", a two-year series of investigations targeting the Sinaloa and Juarez Cartels and associated violent street gangs as part of on-going strategy against the cartels and their distribution networks in the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists seeking information on the role of this industry association in assisting compounding pharmacies in their interactions with federal and state authorities. A bipartisan group...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its schedule for the week of Dec. 10, 2012. The committee will hold hearings to exercise oversight over new spectrum auction authority Congress gave the FCC this year and implementation of the health care law’s exchanges and Medicaid expansion.
