News from July 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2012 - The House of Representatives today passed, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act, sponsored by Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-02), by a bipartisan vote of 256-160. The bill would streamline government red tape to allow the U.S. to more efficiently develop our Nation's strategic and critical minerals, such as rare earth elements, that are vital to job creation, American economic competitiveness and national security.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the “Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities," experts and interested parties from government and civil society expressed strong support for Senate ratification of the treaty. The Convention is an international agreement ...
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - This morning, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) delivered the following statement at a hearing analyzing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Treaty Doc. 112-7).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: SAN LUIS, AZ - Agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) along with the U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE), U.S. Border (USBP), Yuma County Sheriff’s (YCSO) and Arizona Department of Public (DPS) executed a search warrant Saturday morning at a business used to conceal the U.S. entrance to a tunnel that stretched 240 yards underground to an ice plant across the border in Mexico.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today questioned Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials about the agency’s 40-year failure to clean up federally drilled oil and natural gas exploration wells in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: HOUSTON, TX - U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman today announced 13 new cutting-edge research projects that will receive a total of $30 million to find new ways of harnessing America’s abundant natural gas supplies for cars and trucks and expand the use of natural gas as a vehicle fuel. Through...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report he requested on security clearance requirements for federal civilian positions, entitled "Security Clearances: ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 12, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following statement, as prepared for delivery, on the House floor today in support of H.R. 4402, The National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Republicans today passed their latest giveaway to highly profitable companies - this time to the mining industry - while allowing the industry to skirt tax and royalty payments to the American people. The bill would short circuit proper environmental review and therefore provide a...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Energy and Power and Oversight and Investigations today held a joint hearing to discuss a draft of the “No More Solyndras Act." Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) co-authored the legislation to ensure taxpayers will never again be left on the hook for the administration’s risky bets.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In response to news reports that USDA is encouraging increased participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) through Spanish soap operas, U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today sent a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack demanding a full accounting of the scope and effectiveness of taxpayer funded promotional campaigns on the SNAP program.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: Beginning July 13, Obstruction Point Road will be open from Hurricane Ridge to Waterhole at Milepost 3.2. Road crews continue to clear snow and grade the road surface between Waterhole and the road's terminus at the Obstruction Point trailhead.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: Beginning this Saturday, July 15, at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., Olympic National Park rangers will lead guided interpretive walks along the Elwha River where Lake Aldwell once existed. These programs will be offered Saturdays and Sundays at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. through September 2.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - During today’s hearing on the Upton-Stearns “No More Solyndras Act," the Acting Executive Director of the DOE Loan Program Office, David G. Frantz, proclaimed the program responsible for Solyndra as an “enormous success." The statement comes a week after Abound Solar became the latest...
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today released a staff report entitled, “Judicial and Police Reforms in Mexico: Essential Building Blocks for a Lawful Society." The report calls on the incoming Mexican and U.S. Administrations to expand their support for Mexico’s reform of its judicial sector and police as the best means to reduce the high levels of violent crime in Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - During today’s hearing on the Upton-Stearns “No More Solyndras Act," the Acting Executive Director of the DOE Loan Program Office, David G. Frantz, proclaimed the program responsible for Solyndra as an “enormous success." The statement comes a week after Abound Solar became the latest...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, outlined the impact on American small businesses and farmers if Congress does not act to provide relief from the death tax and said Congress should act to fully repeal it.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON -A panel of homeland security leaders told the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Thursday that stronger, more integrated management and operations at the Department of Homeland Security ranks high among the objectives the Department must accomplish to better fulfill its mission in the future.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Energy and Power and Oversight and Investigations today held a joint hearing to discuss a draft of the “No More Solyndras Act." Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) co-authored the legislation to ensure taxpayers will never again be left on the hook for the administration’s risky bets.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - During today’s hearing on the Upton-Stearns “No More Solyndras Act," the Acting Executive Director of the DOE Loan Program Office, David G. Frantz, proclaimed the program responsible for Solyndra as an “enormous success." The statement comes a week after Abound Solar became the latest...
