News from July 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Michigan), Education & Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-Minnesota), Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) introduced legislation, the Preserving...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced its schedule for the week of July 23, 2012. The committee will continue its commitment to sound energy policy with a hearing to examine policies and procedures at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a markup of legislation to protect taxpayers from risky bets like Solyndra.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) along with Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Trade Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) announced they will introduce legislation granting permanent normal trade relations...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced its schedule for the week of July 23, 2012. The committee will continue its commitment to sound energy policy with a hearing to examine policies and procedures at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a markup of legislation to protect taxpayers from risky bets like Solyndra.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued “guidance " to States about the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program that could undermine the critical work focus of welfare reform. The HHS guidance attempts to explain how States can now seek “waivers"...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 20, 2012 - Today, the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands held a hearing on legislation intended to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires, restore forest health, and address factors that contribute to insect infestation and wildfire. Decades of severe mismanagement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) along with Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Trade Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced H.R. 6156, legislation granting permanent normal trade relations...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee, will testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation about a joint report on “gray market" drug companies as part of a bicameral investigation led by Cummings, Senator Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Senator Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 20, 2012 - USDA Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager today announced the publication of a guide outlining programs the federal government has available to support rural communities as they promote economic development and enhance the quality of life for rural residents.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: In response to a recent road safety study conducted along Rim Rock Drive, by the Federal Highway Administration, Colorado National Monument will install speed humps on Rim Rock Drive at east and west entrances. Traffic engineers expressed concern for public and employee safety near the entrance stations and recommended that speed humps be installed as an effective measure to both increase safety and reduce speeding.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 20, 2012
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: At approximately 4:00 p.m. today, while visiting the West Beach unit of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, one of the members of a group of 13 adults and children notified National Park Service lifeguards on duty at the beach that a five year old boy had gone missing.
By State Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman, the Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks as prepared for delivery at today’s committee hearing, “Unfair Trading Practices Against the U.S.: Intellectual Property Rights Infringement, Property Expropriation, and other Barriers".
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: The flurry of getting to the beach for the Fourth of July weekend may now be a fond memory for many people, but there is still much more to see and do on Fire Island and at the William Floyd Estate before the summer slips away. Pick up a copy of Fire Island National Seashore's or check for special programs posted on the Calendar of Special Events and What's Happening This Week pages. You can also follow program updates at Twitter/FireIslandNPS.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: Work Scheduled for Hurricane Ridge Road: Minor Delays Anticipated.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) along with Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced they will introduce legislation granting permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: Demonstration is an achievement of a Navy Energy Goal and Furthers Progress on Administration's Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future Audio WASHINGTON. D.C., July 19, 2012 – U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, and Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: Phillip Oliver, 46, an inmate at the Muskogee County Jail (MCJ) was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Muskogee, Okla., to one year and a day followed by one year of supervised release for one count of conspiracy related to the orchestrated beating of a fellow inmate at the behest of a jailer on duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: Port Arthur Chemical and Environmental Services LLC (PACES) and its former president Matthew L. Bowman have been charged with conspiracy to illegally transport hazardous materials, resulting in the deaths of two employees, in an indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Beaumont, Texas, yesterday, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: Two foreign nationals have pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to traffic the identities of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens and corresponding identity documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Michigan resident pleaded guilty today for his role in a $13.8 million Detroit-area home health care fraud scheme, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
