News from December 2012
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park is pleased to announce that the CD, Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music, produced by the Park's nonprofit educational partner, Great Smoky Mountains Association, has been nominated for a Grammy Award. The CD includes 34 historic songs, ballads, and instrumentals recorded in 1939 by "song catcher" Joseph S. Hall.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) led the Senate to pass a bill today boosting U.S. exports by establishing permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia. The legislation, which passed by a vote of 92-4, is expected to double American exports to Russia within...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today announced that Tom Hassenboehler will serve as the new Subcommittee on Energy and Power Chief Counsel. Outgoing chief counsel Maryam Brown will serve as policy advisor to House Speaker John Boehner.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today announced that Tom Hassenboehler will serve as the new Subcommittee on Energy and Power Chief Counsel. Outgoing chief counsel Maryam Brown will serve as policy advisor to House Speaker John Boehner.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: DEC 06 - (ST. LOUIS) - The Drug Enforcement Administration today announced the results of “Project Below the Beltway", a two-year series of investigations targeting the Sinaloa and Juarez Cartels and violent street gangs as part of on-going initiative against the cartels and their distribution network...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the Republican membership of the six Energy and Commerce subcommittees for the 113th Congress.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: Senator Boxer's Message on the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar
By DOL Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: House Republicans have filed an amicus brief in support of legal efforts to overturn the National Labor Relation Board’s (NLRB) poster regulation. Issued by the board in August 2011, the controversial regulation requires virtually every private employer to post in the workplace a biased and vague notice of employees’ labor rights.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the Republican membership of the six Energy and Commerce subcommittees for the 113th Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today announced that Tom Hassenboehler will serve as the new Subcommittee on Energy and Power Chief Counsel. Outgoing chief counsel Maryam Brown will serve as policy advisor to House Speaker John Boehner.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the Republican membership of the six Energy and Commerce subcommittees for the 113th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Neil DeSousa, Acting U.S. (USMS) for the Southern District of Florida, Noel Manheimer, Director, Customs and Border (CBP), ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Pete Stark (D-CA), House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today made the following comment on the release by the Department of Energy of a study on the impacts of U.S. natural gas exports as liquefied natural gas (LNG).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - Public comments are encouraged on a proposal to conduct streambed maintenance and install riprap as needed at bridges and culverts along the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
Release: By Deanna Ayala, Director, FAS Agricultural Trade Office, Moscow.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: The United States has asked a federal court to shut down a Mo’ Money Taxes tax preparation office in Nashville, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction suit, filed against Mo’ Money licensee Toney Fields and co-defendant Trumekia Shaw in U.S. District Court in Nashville, alleges that the two defendants intentionally prepare and file fraudulent federal income tax returns to obtain improper tax refunds for customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has entered into two settlements worth more than $50 million to clean up contamination from the B.F. Goodrich Superfund Site in San Bernardino County, Calif. There are a dozen settling parties including Emhart Industries and Pyro Spectaculars, Inc. (PSI), as well as the cities of Rialto and Colton and County of San Bernardino.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The founder and president of the National Association of Special Police and Security Officers (NASPSO) – which represents private security guards assigned to protect federal buildings in the metropolitan Washington area – was convicted yesterday in Washington federal court, following a jury ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: Kentucky-based Lusk Mechanical Contractors and Commonwealth Technologies, and their owners, Harry Lusk and Wendell Goodman, have agreed to pay $6.25 million to resolve allegations that they submitted false statements to the Small Business Administration and false claims to the Army, the Justice Department announced today.
