News published on Federal Newswire in February 2012

News from February 2012


Private Exporters Report Sales Activity for Egypt and China

Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.


Committee Leaders Respond to Release of DOE Loan & Loan Guarantee Audit

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns expressed concern with today’s release of former Treasury official Herbert Allison’s audit of DOE’s stimulus loans and loan guarantees. Two out of the first three...


Tuskegee Airmen History Presentation at National Lakeshore

News Release: Learn more about the lives and legacies of American heroes, the Tuskegee Airmen, on February 18 at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore's Paul H. Douglas Center for Environmental Education. Cullen Daniel, president of the Miller Historical Society, will present "The Real Red Tails, America's Forgotten Black Heroes" at 1:30 p.m. during the Saturday afternoon Open House at the Douglas Center.


Committee Leaders Express Concern over EPA Policy that Could Compromise Chemical Facility Security

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson expressing concern over a recent agency announcement that could compromise sensitive information and make U.S. chemical manufacturing facilities more susceptible to terrorist attacks.


Oversight Committee Chairman Issa Statement on Release of Energy Department Loan Review Report

News Release: (WASHINGTON)-Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today released the following statement regarding the publication of a report critical of the Department of Energy’s handling of green energy loans...


Upton, Pitts Statement on Religious Freedom

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today released the following statements after the White House doubled down on an overreaching mandate that violates employers and individuals’ conscience...


Upton, Pitts Statement on Religious Freedom

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today released the following statements after the White House doubled down on an overreaching mandate that violates employers and individuals’ conscience...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson expressing concern over a recent agency announcement that could compromise sensitive information and make U.S. chemical manufacturing facilities more susceptible to terrorist attacks.


Members Explore Ways to Make it Easier to Make it in America

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade this week met with job-creators and industry experts to discuss American manufacturing. Hosted by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), the subcommittee’s Jobs and Innovation Forum discussed ways to “Make it Easier to Make it in...


Congressman Berman Sounds Warning Bell on Global Water Security; Calls on Congress to Pass Bipartisan Legislation, Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act

News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, the Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to the release of an unclassified intelligence community assessment of global water security...


Members Explore Ways to Make it Easier to Make it in America

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade this week met with job-creators and industry experts to discuss American manufacturing. Hosted by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), the subcommittee’s Jobs and Innovation Forum discussed ways to “Make it Easier to Make it in...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today released the following statements after the White House doubled down on an overreaching mandate that violates employers and individuals’ conscience...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns expressed concern with today’s release of former Treasury official Herbert Allison’s audit of DOE’s stimulus loans and loan guarantees. Two out of the first three...


Committee Leaders Respond to Release of DOE Loan & Loan Guarantee Audit

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns expressed concern with today’s release of former Treasury official Herbert Allison’s audit of DOE’s stimulus loans and loan guarantees. Two out of the first three...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade this week met with job-creators and industry experts to discuss American manufacturing. Hosted by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), the subcommittee’s Jobs and Innovation Forum discussed ways to “Make it Easier to Make it in...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) sent a letter today to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson expressing concern over a recent agency announcement that could compromise sensitive information and make U.S. chemical manufacturing facilities more susceptible to terrorist attacks.


Remote Gas Well Monitoring Technology Applied to Marcellus Shale Site

News Release: Washington, DC - A technology to remotely monitor conditions at energy-rich Marcellus Shale gas wells to help insure compliance with environmental requirements has been developed through a research partnership funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).


News Release: Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Randy King and Western Federal Lands Highway Division officials announce that asphalt core drilling is scheduled to take place from Monday February 13th and estimated to be completed by Wednesday February 29th on the Nisqually Road from the Park's southwest...


News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman, Ranking Member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced the bill H.R. 3992 today allowing Israeli nationals to apply for an E-2 investor visa to the United States.


USDA to Host First U.S.-China Agricultural Symposium

News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2012—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that government and industry leaders from the United States and China will gather in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, Feb. 16, for the first U.S.-China Agricultural Symposium. Vilsack traveled to China for the second time as Agriculture ...