News from February 2012

By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following a briefing with Google last week, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Ranking Member G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) sent a letter today to Google’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Page requesting additional information on the company’s recent privacy policy changes.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-PA) yesterday introduced the Generic Drug and Biosimilar User Fee Act of 2012 (H.R. 3988), which authorizes...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: CONTACTS NAME: ERIC CAMPBELL (540) 868-9176.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following a briefing with Google last week, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Ranking Member G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) sent a letter today to Google’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Page requesting additional information on the company’s recent privacy policy changes.

By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following a briefing with Google last week, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Ranking Member G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) sent a letter today to Google’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Page requesting additional information on the company’s recent privacy policy changes.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environment and Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) met with reporters recently to outline a 2012 agenda for the subcommittee that focuses on protecting the American people, creating jobs, eliminating government waste. The agenda includes...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following a briefing with Google last week, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Ranking Member G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) sent a letter today to Google’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Page requesting additional information on the company’s recent privacy policy changes.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following a briefing with Google last week, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Ranking Member G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) sent a letter today to Google’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Page requesting additional information on the company’s recent privacy policy changes.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, applauded today’s decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle. The two reactors will join Vogtle’s two existing reactors near Waynesboro, Georgia, with Unit 3 expected to begin operating in 2016 and Unit 4 in 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-PA) yesterday introduced the Generic Drug and Biosimilar User Fee Act of 2012 (H.R. 3988), which authorizes...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, applauded today’s decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to approve the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle. The two reactors will join Vogtle’s two existing reactors near Waynesboro, Georgia, with Unit 3 expected to begin operating in 2016 and Unit 4 in 2017.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- The Energy Department released today the current speakers for the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) annual Energy Innovation Summit, which will take place at the Gaylord Resort and Convention Center at the National Harbor, Maryland, from February 27-29, 2012. Acting...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton joined every Republican member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in urging full White House compliance related to the Committee’s subpoenas on Solyndra. Despite repeated attempts by the Committee to accommodate...

By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton joined every Republican member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in urging full White House compliance related to the Committee’s subpoenas on Solyndra. Despite repeated attempts by the Committee to accommodate...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton joined every Republican member of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in urging full White House compliance related to the Committee’s subpoenas on Solyndra. Despite repeated attempts by the Committee to accommodate...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following a briefing with Google last week, Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Mary Bono Mack (R-CA) and Ranking Member G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) sent a letter today to Google’s Chief Executive Officer Larry Page requesting additional information on the company’s recent privacy policy changes.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environment and Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) met with reporters recently to outline a 2012 agenda for the subcommittee that focuses on protecting the American people, creating jobs, eliminating government waste. The agenda includes...

By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Committee, issued the following statement today after the Senate voted to proceed with the surface transportation bill. The final vote was 85-11.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement responding to President Obama’s announcement that ten states have been granted waivers from some requirements of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) ...

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-PA) yesterday introduced the Generic Drug and Biosimilar User Fee Act of 2012 (H.R. 3988), which authorizes...