News from March 2012
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: The National Park Service is moving into the maintenance phase of the Elk Management Plan in Theodore Roosevelt National Park this fall, after two highly successful elk reduction efforts during 2010-2011.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: “I thank the Chairman for holding this hearing on the Internal Revenue Service. I am pleased to have the Commissioner before us today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: Chamizal National Memorial Providing New Opportunity for Alcohol Vendor.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2012 - Earlier this week, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Water & Power Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (CA-04) sent letters to the Bureau of Reclamation and the Office of Management and Budget requesting information on the use of American...
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, introduced H.R. 4240 today, the bipartisan North Korean Human Rights Act.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders responded to President Obama’s announcement today that he is taking action to speed construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. After allowing the project to languish for more than three years, the president is now trying to take undue credit for the fraction of the pipeline that will connect the storage hub at Cushing, OK to the refining center on the Texas Gulf Coast.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, today joined Sens. John Hoeven, R-N.D.; Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; John Cornyn, R-Texas; Roy Blunt, R-Mo.; and David Vitter, R-La.; in criticizing President Obama’s visit to Cushing, Oklahoma, saying it highlights his continued obstruction of the Keystone XL pipeline project while the economy languishes and gas prices continue to rise for American consumers.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders responded to President Obama’s announcement today that he is taking action to speed construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. After allowing the project to languish for more than three years, the president is now trying to take undue credit for the fraction of the pipeline that will connect the storage hub at Cushing, OK to the refining center on the Texas Gulf Coast.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Senator Scott Brown, R-Mass., co-sponsored the Stop Trading On Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act to eliminate any ambiguities in the law that governs insider trading. The House passed a similar bill, and the Senate agreed to the House version.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in advance of the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s health care law...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 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 (R-TN) released the following statements marking the two-year anniversary of President Obama signing his health care reform plan into law...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC- Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, made the following opening statement at the Committee's hearing with Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on the Department of Education's 2013 budget today. As Prepared for Delivery.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Interior Department released a set of voluntary guidelines designed to help wind energy project developers avoid and minimize impacts of onshore wind projects on wildlife. The guidelines are largely based on recommendations from a Federal Advisory Committee consisting of representatives from states, tribes, environmental groups, and wind developers.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in advance of the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s health care law...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: “Our topic today is ‘Stay-at-work and Return-to-work Strategies: Lessons from the Private Sector.’ This is the latest in a series of hearings we have convened since last March to explore issues that impact the employment of people with disabilities in America. Of course, our goal is to boost the labor...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) made the following statement on the House approval of the PATH Act, H.R. 5, which repeals the controversial Independent Payment Advisory Board and advances medical liability reform...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2012 - As gasoline prices hit an all time high for March, President Obama is taking a politically driven “tour de farce " around the country trying to convince voters he is responsible for increased American oil and natural gas production. Yet he’s conveniently leaving out the important detail that increased production is taking place on non-federal land, as confirmed by two recent reports.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders responded to President Obama’s announcement today that he is taking action to speed construction of the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline. After allowing the project to languish for more than three years, the president is now trying to take undue credit for the fraction of the pipeline that will connect the storage hub at Cushing, OK to the refining center on the Texas Gulf Coast.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: Statement of Chairman Boxer FY 2013 EPA Budget Hearing March 22, 2012 I would like to begin by welcoming Administrator Jackson to this oversight hearing on the 2013 budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA is charged with implementing critical public health and environmental protections, ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in advance of the two-year anniversary of President Obama’s health care law...
