News from February 2012
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) delivered the following prepared remarks for the full Committee hearing entitled An Examination of the President's FY 2013 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a business meeting at 9:45a.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a resolution authorizing the issuance of a subpoena to compel the testimony of five executive branch employees...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today said the Farm Bill will continue to play a major role in helping businesses create jobs in rural America. Today’s hearing, building on the twelve public hearings held in 2011, focused on rural ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), today held a hearing entitled, “Where the Jobs Are: Employment Trends and Analysis." Today’s hearing was the first in a series of hearings the subcommittee will hold this year to examine employment trends and explore ways to stimulate job creation and bring jobs back to America.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 15, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today questioned Secretary Ken Salazar on the Interior Department’s lack of compliance with legitimate oversight requests from the Committee on actions and policies that directly impact American jobs and the economy.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- At a hearing of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), the Committee's ranking member, today examined policies critical to rural communities and called out the Obama administration for dusting off tired budget proposals that target crop insurance, the most important safety net for producers.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders today touted the job creation and energy security benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline and urged their colleagues in the House of Representatives to join them in supporting legislation that would allow construction on the shovel-ready project to begin.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today fought to improve food security in the United States by securing further commitment from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack that building a National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas, would remain a critical funding priority for the nation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: The China Bend formation and climbing area are closed as of February 15 until July 15.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a business meeting at 9:45a.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a resolution authorizing the issuance of a subpoena to compel the testimony of five executive branch employees...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - With their transportation bill floundering, House Republicans went to the standard playbook and voted to open up more areas to drilling to appease Big Oil. The much-touted "revenue portion" of the House Republican transportation bill passed today, even though it would provide about 1 percent of the total funding for the bill. One of the bills promoting failed oil shale technology wouldn't even produce any revenue at all.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - Seneca County Arts Council and Women's Rights National Historical are pleased to cosponsor ARTS AFIRE!, part of a National Park Service initiative to engage audiences through the arts. Events will kick off on Thursday, March 1, and continue through the month.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), today held a hearing entitled, “Where the Jobs Are: Employment Trends and Analysis." Today’s hearing was the first in a series of hearings the subcommittee will hold this year to examine employment trends and explore ways to stimulate job creation and bring jobs back to America.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders today touted the job creation and energy security benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline and urged their colleagues in the House of Representatives to join them in supporting legislation that would allow construction on the shovel-ready project to begin.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders today touted the job creation and energy security benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline and urged their colleagues in the House of Representatives to join them in supporting legislation that would allow construction on the shovel-ready project to begin.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), today held a hearing entitled, “Where the Jobs Are: Employment Trends and Analysis." Today’s hearing was the first in a series of hearings the subcommittee will hold this year to examine employment trends and explore ways to stimulate job creation and bring jobs back to America.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a business meeting at 9:45a.m. on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012, in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a resolution authorizing the issuance of a subpoena to compel the testimony of five executive branch employees...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2012
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new report showing that the government’s health care fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered nearly $4.1 billion in taxpayer dollars in Fiscal Year (FY) 2011. This is ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2012
News Release: John P. Miller, a Certified Public Accountant, was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the Southern District of Florida with obstructing the Internal Revenue laws and preparing false tax returns the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserves pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States for receiving money from a local contractor in return for preferentially processing its invoices for payment outside of the proper procedures and protocols, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
