News from March 2012
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - The four original cosponsors of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, S. 2105 - Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. - issued the following statement Friday about an alternative bill introduced by eight Republicans Thursday...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- Today, the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) issued a $150 million funding opportunity open to all transformational energy technologies to support the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above approach to solving our nation’s most pressing energy challenges. This Open...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park is now accepting applications for transportation mini-grants to help subsidize bus transportation for school field trips to the park.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Ven-Co Produce Inc. of Bronx, N.Y., for failure to pay for produce.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe today issued the following joint statement commending the federal District Court for the District of Columbia for striking down a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) scheme that would have punished employers for failing to post a biased notice of workers’ labor rights...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: Join park rangers this month for a variety of fun and interesting interpretive programs. Park rangers will lead special guided tours of park sites and share personal stories of those who fought in the Pacific War. Programs provide visitors an opportunity to learn about park resources, the people we honor, and how events of the past still influence us today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today released the following statement regarding GM’s announcement that it was temporarily suspending production of the “Volt" automobile...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC-On Tuesday, March 6, 2012, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings, Senator Ben Cardin, and the Congressional Tri-Caucus (Congressional Black Caucus, Hispanic Caucus, Asian Pacific American Caucus) will host a forum to examine the status of efforts by the Department of Defense and Coast Guard to institute recommendations made nearly one year ago by the Military Leadership Diversity Commission.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: Boston, MA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 3.2 million visitors in 2010 spent $93,586,000 in Boston National Historical Park, Boston African American National Historic Site, and in communities near the parks. That spending supported 1,212 jobs in the local area.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement in response to President Obama’s call yesterday for tax hikes on domestic oil and gas producers:
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: Fort Pulaski to Commemorate 150th Anniversary of Civil War Battle.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 285,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations. Of the total 120,000 tons is for delivery during the 2011/2012 marketing year and 165,000 tons is for delivery during the 2012/2013 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: A number of soldiers who participated in the clash on this site referred to Palo Alto as a "natural battlefield." They meant that the site was a broad, flat plain, perfectly suited to military tactics of the era. But the field is also a natural battlefield in another sense.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: Michael Thompson Promoted to Yakutat District Ranger.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today that the Department of Energy has issued a determination and market impact analysis authorizing uranium transfers to fund accelerated cleanup activities at the Portsmouth Site in Piketon, Ohio, through the third quarter of calendar year 2013. The Determination finds that the proposed transfer of uranium will not have an adverse material impact on the domestic uranium industries.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Updated March 9, 2012 For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the formation of the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council (HSAAC), comprised of prominent university presidents and academic leaders charged with advising the Secretary and senior leadership at the Department on several key issues.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 1, 2012 –Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that nearly 6,000 USDA partners are teaming to deem March 8, 2012 as "What's on My Plate?" day to heighten public awareness of the importance of choosing nutritious foods for a healthy meal. The effort is supported by almost ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: New Labels to Provide Consumers With the Information They Need to Make Healthy Food Choices WASHINGTON, March 1, 2012 – Beginning today, consumers will have convenient access to important nutritional information about the raw meat and poultry products they most frequently purchase, the U.S. Department ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Sales of U.S. food and agricultural products to China have grown by 80 percent in 3 years AMES, Iowa, March 1, 2012—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will lead an agricultural trade mission to China at the end of March to strengthen partnerships ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Hector Martinez Maldonado, a former Puerto Rico Senator, and Juan Bravo Fernandez, the former president of the largest private security firm in Puerto Rico, were each sentenced today to 48 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a bribery scheme involving the passage of legislation ...
