News from January 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement after President Obama announced that he would seek congressional authority to reorganize the Executive Branch, including merging six trade and commerce agencies...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, following the loss of taxpayer money in the bankruptcy of Solyndra, continues to press the Department of Energy for answers about other questionable and problematic loans funded by the $787 billion stimulus. Letters released today by the Committee ask the Department of Energy to respond to questions related to taxpayer backed loan guarantees to Beacon Power and Nevada Geothermal.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking nominations for the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. - Jan. 13, 2012. Sharon Kim, Chief of Resources, MOCA/TUZI, 928-649-6195, x226. Kid's "Green Ranger" Program Returns to Montezuma Well. The National Park Service's "Green Rangers" program will be resuming in February 2012. The Green Ranger program is for kids between...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: Two timely nutrient data sets provided by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are being used by the beef and pork industries to provide new Nutrition Facts labels for their products. Federal rules require specific meat and poultry products to carry new nutrition information.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: Oregon/Washington State Director Ed Shepard announced the selection of Katrina Symons as the new the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roseburg District Manager. Symons has been the Field Manager of the Grants Pass Field Office since September 2004.“Katrina understands how essential the BLM's relationships...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: Program Extended for the 2012 Hiking Season.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is sidestepping several important disclosure requirements with the new health care law and is preventing Congress and the American public from being able to assess the true costs associated with the so-called “essential health benefits," according to a letter sent today to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from several House chairmen and Senate ranking members.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON- Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has jurisdiction over governmental reorganization, reiterated the bipartisan, bicameral request that President Obama actively collaborate with Congress on his plan to reorganize federal agencies first disclosed nearly one year ago during the President’s last State of the Union Address.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) today commented on the Obama Administration’s proposal to reorganize the administration’s major trade and commerce organizations. From Chairmen Baucus and Camp...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after President Obama proposed consolidating a number of overlapping federal agencies...
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the Obama Administration’s decision to impose sanctions on three foreign companies for providing refined petroleum to Iran. The authority to levy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressional leaders from the Kentucky and Ohio delegations sent a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu yesterday urging him to take immediate action to create and protect jobs and maintain U.S. access to a vital resource by moving forward with the American Centrifuge and the re-enrichment...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement in response to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s comments about spectrum legislation at the Consumer Electronic Show...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today welcomed the idea of consolidating duplicative and complex federal agencies, pointing to reports from the U.S. Government Accountability Office and information gathered in committee hearings as evidence that shrinking government...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is sidestepping several important disclosure requirements with the new health care law and is preventing Congress and the American public from being able to assess the true costs associated with the so-called “essential health benefits," according to a letter sent today to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from several House chairmen and Senate ranking members.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today welcomed the idea of consolidating duplicative and complex federal agencies, pointing to reports from the U.S. Government Accountability Office and information gathered in committee hearings as evidence that shrinking government...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding President Obama’s proposal to reorganize the government...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement in response to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s comments about spectrum legislation at the Consumer Electronic Show...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Mike Enzi (R-WY), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement welcoming today’s announcement that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reached agreement with the prescription drug, generic drug, and biosimilar industries on the user fees that help speed the FDA’s review of medicines in order to make them available to Americans.
