News from June 2012
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Wednesday urged a timely bipartisan vote on cybersecurity legislation to protect vulnerable critical networks, such as those that operate electric grids, gas pipelines, water supply systems, and transportation.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON -- As part of the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, which aims to drive solar to cost-competition with other energy sources by 2020, Secretary Steven Chu today announced a new competition and investments to make it easier and cheaper for utilities, businesses and consumers to deploy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today said a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report confirms that medical devices improve patient lives and further demonstrates the need for Congress to repeal the job-killing medical device tax that was included in the $2.6 trillion health spending law enacted last year.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park has reopened the section of Crater Rim Drive near the Devastation Trail parking lot to Keanakākoʻi Crater, and a portion of Crater Rim Trail that leads from Chain of Craters Road to the south side of Keanakākoʻi, to hikers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: As I prepared for today’s remarks, I looked back on the comments I made last year when I spoke to you. Whether it was looming tax hikes that still hang over this weak economy, stalled trade deals that have since been signed into law, or the debt limit crisis, which the Budget Control Act pushed off until at least the end of this year or early 2013, last year dealt us a lot of challenges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statements in reaction to the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement entering into force today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: Continuing again this year on Tuesday nights is the Science Behind The Scenery Series in Rocky Mountain National Park. These one-hour programs begin at 7:30 p.m. and are held in the auditorium at Beaver Meadows Visitor Center. The programs will run from June 19 to August 21. A variety of scientists will...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: Summer programs started last week at the National Park Service Outer Banks Group.A wide variety of programs are being offered.Summer programs will run from June 9 - Aug. 17, 2012.The summer program schedules include history talks, nature walks, and recreational programs such as surf fishing, cast netting, crabbing, seining, and snorkeling.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany, Jr., MD (R-LA) requested information from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) awarding $123 million in grants. Recent reports on grant making...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 13, 2012 - Next week, the U.S. House of Representatives will consider the Conservation and Economic Growth Act, a package of fourteen Natural Resources Committee bills that will create new American jobs, grow the economy, protect the environment and promote development of renewable hydropower.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) requested information on how much has been spent by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for public relations, advertisements, polling and message testing since Jan. 1, 2008. The letter follows various news reports detailing millions in taxpayer dollars going to public relations campaigns to promote the Democrats’ health care law.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the May jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 69,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for May increased to 8.2 percent.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to submit a proposal for how he intends to comply with the Committee’s subpoena in an effort to facilitate an agreement rendering the process of contempt unnecessary. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor this morning, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee and a member of the House-Senate highway bill conference committee, outlined the importance of streamlining environmental red tape that imposes burdensome and costly regulations on state and local governments - diverting much-needed funds from transportation projects, and urged his colleagues to support easing these mandates.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has issued an emergency authorization for the collection and captive rearing of endangered Schaus swallowtail butterflies in an effort to save the species from extinction.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: WILLIAMS, Ariz. - Fire crews continue working towards containment of the Grand Fire and estimate the current size at 446 acres with 50 percent containment. The fire, which is burning in both the Kaibab National Forest and Grand Canyon National Park, is located eight miles east of Tusayan, Arizona and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Ways and Means Committee posted approximately 1,300 Miscellaneous Tariff Bills (MTBs) introduced by nearly 80 House Republicans and 60 House Democrats for public comment. A key objective of MTBs is to boost the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers by lowering the cost of...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced that Michael Beckerman, the panel’s Deputy Staff Director and a longtime Upton adviser since 2001, will depart the committee at the end of June. Beckerman joined the committee as Deputy Staff Director...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: The National Governors Association this week released a report, “The Fiscal Survey of States," that provides an update on the challenges currently facing the state-based Medicaid program. The report coincides with new information on the National Health Expenditures data that revealed the problem will only worsen under Obamacare.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 13, 2012
News Release: Opening Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer
