News from July 2012
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: Berlin, Maryland - If you've ever biked to the beach at Assateague Island in the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia, you may have been caught in one of Assateague's fast moving rain showers. Acting upon requests from visitors and Chincoteague's business community, the National Park Service...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: As everyone knows by now the individual responsibility requirement, the so-called mandate or the free-rider provision in the Affordable Care Act, was modeled after a similar provision in Governor Romney’s health care law in Massachusetts. Obamacare is Romneycare.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: Rep. Ed Whitfield, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, has scheduled a second, bipartisan forum on “State, Local and Federal Cooperation under the Clean Air Act," for Thursday, Aug. 2, at 2:00 p.m. This will be the committee’s second meeting on this subject, following the initial forum scheduled for Tuesday, July 31.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today welcomed all five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission to discuss a number of issues before the Commission, including spectrum allocations, process reform, Internet governance, and the communications networks and 911 outages during the recent storms in the Mid-Atlantic region.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today welcomed all five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission to discuss a number of issues before the Commission, including spectrum allocations, process reform, Internet governance, and the communications networks and 911 outages during the recent storms in the Mid-Atlantic region.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding the failure of financial firm Peregrine Financial Group and the reported hundreds of millions of dollars in customer funds that are potentially missing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: Rep. Ed Whitfield, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, has scheduled a second, bipartisan forum on “State, Local and Federal Cooperation under the Clean Air Act," for Thursday, Aug. 2, at 2:00 p.m. This will be the committee’s second meeting on this subject, following the initial forum scheduled for Tuesday, July 31.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: Superintendent Randy King announces that Tracy Swartout has been named Deputy Superintendent of Mount Rainier National Park. She will begin her new assignment September 2. As Deputy Superintendent Swartout will provide management oversight and guidance for the day-to-day operations of the park. King...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: The House of Representatives is currently considering legislation to strike down the president’s job-destroying health care law. As chairman of a committee with jurisdiction over the 2010 health care law, Rep. John Kline (R-MN) urged his colleagues to stand with the American people and support the Repeal of ObamaCare Act (H.R. 6079).
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today made the following remarks on the House floor during debate of H.R. 6079, which fully repeals the president’s health care law...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today introduced a bill to prohibit the deduction of medical marijuana when determining federal nutrition benefits.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan Federal Spectrum Working Group today sent a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to examine government spectrum use.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today welcomed all five commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission to discuss a number of issues before the Commission, including spectrum allocations, process reform, Internet governance, and the communications networks and 911 outages during the recent storms in the Mid-Atlantic region.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan Federal Spectrum Working Group today sent a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to examine government spectrum use.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Subcommittee Chairman Patrick McHenry agreed to consider a request by full Committee Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings to hold a hearing with former National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Member Peter Schaumber. Calling Cummings “tough but fair," McHenry said “you have my commitment" to consider the hearing request in the near future.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 10, 2012 - Today, as part of a more than yearlong investigation into the Obama Administration’s rewrite of a 2008 coal regulation, the Stream Buffer Zone Rule, that could cost thousands of jobs, negatively impact the economies of 22 states and significantly harm American energy...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve acting Superintendent Eric Veach announced today that an immediate closure to visitor use due to increased bear activity has been instituted for the Nugget Creek trail upstream of its confluence with Porcupine Creek up to the Nugget Creek cabin, but excluding...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today made the following remarks on the House floor during debate of H.R. 6079, which fully repeals the president’s health care law...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today released the text of their draft bill the “No More Solyndras Act." The legislation is a product of the committee’s investigation into the $535 million...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan Federal Spectrum Working Group today sent a letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to examine government spectrum use.
