News from December 2012
By Fed News Journal | Dec 5, 2012
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on Dec. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: Staten Island, N.Y. - It has been more than a month since Hurricane Sandy roared up the East Coast, making landfall on October 29 in southern New Jersey. The storm affected nearly 70 national park sites, including all 15 in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, from Sandy Hook (part of Gateway National...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: Robert Louis Stevenson once said, “The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: Late Tuesday evening, former representative, and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Jack Brooks (D-Texas) passed away in his hometown of Beaumont in Texas. Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued this statement following the news of his passing...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Wednesday issued the following statement in response to a report on homeland security grants released by Committee member Senator Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: Scientists from a PML-Joint Quantum Institute (JQI)* group have devised and demonstrated a novel method** for making the most precise measurements to date of the properties of two atomic transitions ("quantum leaps") in rubidium - an element whose transitions are used as frequency standards for many...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: Today, the Obama Administration hosted its fourth annual Tribal Nations Summit that brings together more than 200 federally recognized tribal leaders to work directly with top federal government officials on important environmental and economic challenges. The Office of Indian Energy works across the Administration to continue this important dialogue with tribal leaders on their energy needs.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the Democratic Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives announced that Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) will be returning as Ranking Democrat of the Committee on Homeland Security for the 113th Congress. Congressman Thompson has led the Democrats on the Committee since 2005. Congressman Thompson released the following statement on the announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: CINCINNATI - Nancy Sadler, 49, of West Portsmouth, Ohio was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for operating Ohio Medical and Pain Management, LLC, a “pill mill" in Waverly, Ohio. Her husband, Lester, aka “Ape", Sadler, 56, was sentenced to 151 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - At the White House Tribal Nations Conference today, the Energy Department announced two new initiatives aimed at driving increased energy production and sustainable economic development in Indian Country. As part of the Energy Department’s efforts to support Tribal renewable energy production...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: Haleakalā National Park is now accepting applications for Kupukupu 'Āina, an internship program geared for middle school students in grades 6-8, which will take place from March 18-22, 2013. There is no fee to participate in the program.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - A report on natural gas exports by a consulting firm released today by the Department of Energy as part of their analysis of expanded exports of the fuel confirms that prices for American and manufacturers will rise from expanded exports, and constitute a massive transfer of wealth from...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said the White House is willing to go over the fiscal cliff over the top two marginal tax rates...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-Two federal agencies have teamed to create the first-ever system for linking accurate assessments of risk from wildland fires to improved building codes, standards and practices that will help communities better resist the threat. The proposed Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Hazard Scale...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - After recently released e-mails at the Department of Interior show that a September test conducted by the Shell oil company on a containment system for Arctic drilling spills failed spectacularly, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today expressed concerns whether the company or others could safely...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: The National Park Service has named Don Striker as Denali National Park and Preserve's new superintendent.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON-Three U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have earned places in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Science Hall of Fame for discoveries that provide solutions for infectious animal diseases, improve breeding for beef production, and enhance perennial grass breeding and bioenergy production systems. ARS is the chief intramural scientific research agency of USDA.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: Grand Canyon National Park's Artist-in-Residence program is pleased to announce its South Rim (SR AiR) selected artists for the October 2012 - September 2013 season, and the North Rim (NR AiR) selections for the May - October 2013 season.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, outlined the benefits of bipartisan legislation to grant permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) to Russia and called on his colleagues to support the Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 (H.R. 6156), which is expected to be voted on in the Senate this week.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Not only would passing the Senate-passed Middle Class Tax Cut bill provide certainty that 98 percent of Americans and 97 percent of small businesses will not see their taxes go up next year, it would immediately resolve nearly HALF of the adverse economic effects of the fiscal cliff. No...
