News from July 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: Mr. President: Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying, “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Republicans have stalled Congress with nearly 100 hours of debate on oil drilling bills, passing 11 drilling bills out of the Natural Resources Committee and turning them into 6 massive packages of giveaways to Big Oil. Today’s Republican “Oil Above All" monstrosity, the sixth package to be voted on in the House this Congress, opens up America’s coasts to drilling without setting any new safety standards.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 24, 2012 - The Department of the Interior has refused to confirm that it will make available five Department officials invited to testify and answer questions at a Full Committee hearing on Wednesday regarding the May 2010 Interior Department action to impose a six-month drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico and the Department’s report that falsely stated independent engineers had peer reviewed and supported a moratorium.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, today praised the Interior Department’s final Environmental Impact Statement for solar energy development on public lands across Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. The plan identifies...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - The prestigious Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Group Tuesday issued a powerful endorsement for the revised, bipartisan cybersecurity legislation introduced by Senators Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins, Jay Rockefeller, Dianne Feinstein, and Tom Carper.
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the election in Nagorno-Karabakh. The statement follows...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, said today that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) latest estimate on the President’s health law confirms that ObamaCare increases costs on families, job creators and states. CBO, Congress’ non-partisan...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), ranking member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee, led efforts today with Republican members of the committee, in asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for assistance for producers suffering from drought conditions.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Allison Macfarlane appeared before Congress today alongside NRC Commissioners Kristine Svinicki, William Magwood, and William Ostendorff at a joint hearing hosted by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Environment and the Economy and Energy and Power.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that states are not required to participate in Obamacare’s massive Medicaid expansion, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office today released an updated report revealing that despite covering fewer individuals, the health care law actually increases federal spending, taxes, and premiums even more than previously estimated.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Hearing on EPA Authorities and Actions to Control Exposures to Toxic Chemicals July 24, 2012 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) The purpose of this hearing is to review the need to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the primary law that regulates chemicals ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement in response to House Republicans introducing legislation to extend the high-income Bush tax cuts...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) sounded a note of caution following today’s announcement that the EPA will extend the deadline for issuing its final standards for cooling water intake structures, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Rep. Sander Levin (D-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) released the following statement in response to the latest health reform analyses published today by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). CBO’s analyses confirm...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) sounded a note of caution following today’s announcement that the EPA will extend the deadline for issuing its final standards for cooling water intake structures, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement in response to the announcement from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) that flight attendants...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) sounded a note of caution following today’s announcement that the EPA will extend the deadline for issuing its final standards for cooling water intake structures, ...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s ruling that states are not required to participate in Obamacare’s massive Medicaid expansion, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office today released an updated report revealing that despite covering fewer individuals, the health care law actually increases federal spending, taxes, and premiums even more than previously estimated.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: Redwood National & State Parks (RNSP) invite you to join park volunteers and retired professional photographers Peg & Rex Lavoie for a special "photowalk" on the Trillium Falls Trail on Saturday, July 28th at 3:00 pm. Designed for amateur and professional photographers alike, Rex and Peg will provide...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2012
News Release: Today, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on H.R. 3179, the "Marketplace Equity Act of 2011." This legislative hearing was a follow-up to the oversight hearing on the "Constitutional Limitations on States' Authority to Collect Sales Taxes in E-Commerce" on Nov. 30, 2011. Ranking Member ...
