News from February 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing a troubling recent trend of power plant closures, leading power producer GenOn announced today it would shutter 13 percent of its generating capacity by 2015 due to new environmental regulations. The company stated it would close eight coal-fired power plants located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, “because forecasted returns on investments necessary to comply with environmental regulations are insufficient."
By DOE Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today appointed members of the subcommittee to serve on a bipartisan Communications and Technology Cybersecurity Working Group to examine the current landscape and lay the foundation for the subcommittee’s efforts to address cybersecurity.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, raised questions about the “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative, saying it isn’t steeped in reality since most food Americans consume isn’t grown locally.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today approved the bipartisan Medicare Decisions Accountability Act, H.R. 452, to repeal the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board. IPAB was created by the health care law and has drawn widespread bipartisan opposition because it threatens to reduce seniors’ access to treatments and services in Medicare. The bill was approved by a vote of 17 to 5.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 121,535 visitors in 2010 spent $4,232,000 in communities near Andersonville National Historic Site. That spending supported 72 jobs in the local area.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Subcommittee on International Trade Ranking Member John Thune (R-S.D.) today introduced legislation that would protect American jobs and exports by ensuring the U.S. Commerce Department could continue to apply countervailing...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) joined with Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) in introducing legislation to ensure that the Department of...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today appointed members of the subcommittee to serve on a bipartisan Communications and Technology Cybersecurity Working Group to examine the current landscape and lay the foundation for the subcommittee’s efforts to address cybersecurity.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today approved the bipartisan Medicare Decisions Accountability Act, H.R. 452, to repeal the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board. IPAB was created by the health care law and has drawn widespread bipartisan opposition because it threatens to reduce seniors’ access to treatments and services in Medicare. The bill was approved by a vote of 17 to 5.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing a troubling recent trend of power plant closures, leading power producer GenOn announced today it would shutter 13 percent of its generating capacity by 2015 due to new environmental regulations. The company stated it would close eight coal-fired power plants located in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, “because forecasted returns on investments necessary to comply with environmental regulations are insufficient."
By Interior Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that more than 786,000 visitors in 2010 spent $39.2 million at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (NHS) and in communities near the park's units in Oregon and Washington State. The impacts of this visitor spending show that Fort Vancouver NHS supported more than 620 jobs in the area in 2010.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes-Norton, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney, Congressman Elijah Cummings and Congresswoman Diana DeGette released the following statement on the vicious and inappropriate...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today appointed members of the subcommittee to serve on a bipartisan Communications and Technology Cybersecurity Working Group to examine the current landscape and lay the foundation for the subcommittee’s efforts to address cybersecurity.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today approved the bipartisan Medicare Decisions Accountability Act, H.R. 452, to repeal the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board. IPAB was created by the health care law and has drawn widespread bipartisan opposition because it threatens to reduce seniors’ access to treatments and services in Medicare. The bill was approved by a vote of 17 to 5.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With less than 24 hours remaining before the Environmental Protection Agency begins enforcing their controversial and duplicative pesticide permitting rule, Senator Roberts called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to call up and approve compromise legislation to prevent costly fall-out for public health officials and agriculture producers.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: "Our responsibility is to ensure that the dollars provided by the American taxpayer for the weapons complex are spent pursuant to a coherent strategy and as wisely as possible. I want to make clear to you that there is nothing I take more seriously in my role as a Member of Congress than the issues surrounding the decisions of war and peace in general, and nuclear weapons in particular.".
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 29, 2012
News Release: "In a time that the role of government, the size of government and the very function of government if being questioned at unprecedented levels, I believe that it is important that we also analyze the vital role government plays to help improve our lives and increase safety and access to quality medication.".
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 28, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the Department of Homeland Security's Final Report to Congress on The Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) Reader Pilot Program. The 2006 SAFE Port Act required DHS to issue the final regulations for the TWIC readers by April 2011 but these regulations have yet to be issued and current TWICs will soon expire and need reissuance.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Reps. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) today assailed efforts by financial trade organizations to undermine current law which, if fully implemented, would help to restrict speculation in oil prices. Most economists agree that...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2012
News Release: Mineral, CA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 384, 570 visitors in 2010 spent $16,053,000 in Lassen Volcanic National Park and in communities near the park. That spending supported 207 jobs in the local area.
