News from March 2012
By Interior Newswire | Mar 19, 2012
News Release: Workbook Designed to Help the Public Engage in Upcoming Public Meetings and Site Visits for the Merced River Plan.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON)-The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a hearing March 20 to assess Department of Energy (DOE) weatherization and green energy loan programs. The hearing, part of the Committee’s ongoing investigation into administrative and management-related challenges related to stimulus programs, will include testimony from Secretary of Energy Steven Chu.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 19, 2012
News Release: On Tuesday, March 20 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled “Ensuring Regulations Protect Access to Affordable and Quality Companion Care." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Gerald Connolly, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations, and Procurement Reform, issued the following statement in response to a GAO report released today that found that although there have been improvements, many federal agencies fail to dispose of electronic waste in an environmentally responsible manner...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2012
News Release: Today, the House of Representatives passed by voice vote H.R. 4086, the “Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act." The bill is a necessary legislative fix in the wake of the decision in Malewicz v. City of Amsterdam, in which U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two years since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, the law has increased benefits and improved coverage for seniors, with millions of seniors and people with disabilities on Medicare already seeing lower prescription drug costs and receiving savings through free preventive care. Statements from Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Pete Stark (D-CA) are below...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2012
News Release: Dear Chairman Issa: As a result of our Committee’s extremely broad jurisdiction, we have a tremendous opportunity to perform constructive oversight of the Department of Energy and the energy industry to promote the bipartisan goal of energy independence for our nation. Over the past year, however, you...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 19, 2012
News Release: Health-conscious owners of "smart phones" and home computers are thumbing and clicking their way to nutritious food choices. A downloadable version of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) flagship National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (SR), listing more than 7,600 food items, is being downloaded and incorporated into a variety of free and for-fee consumer-oriented smart phone "apps" and interactive websites.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 19, 2012
News Release: Voyageurs National Park Presents Beavers:Engineers of the Forest.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2012
News Release: A special homecoming happened in Natchez last week as the childhood portrait of Julia Davis made her way back to the Melrose parlor for the first time since its departure 30 years ago. Painted sometime in the1850s, the oil painting was attributed to German born artist William Frye in the book Mississippi Portraiture.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 16, 2012--USDA officials learned late Friday afternoon, March 16th, 2012, that fraudulent letters are being sent by FAX to individuals and businesses in at least four states. The letters purportedly come from a USDA procurement officer and seek personal information. These letters are ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 16, 2012 –Today, Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan released a new report on the distribution practices of eight producer networks and their partners distributing locally or regionally-grown food to retail and foodservice customers. The report, entitled Moving Food Along ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 16, 2012
News Release: Recent Presidential Action Would Give Companies Making Products Using Agricultural Materials Federal Procurement Preferences CLEVELAND, Ohio, March 16, 2012-- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today visited the Sherwin-Williams John G. Breen Technology research facility in Cleveland to highlight how ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Miami-area resident pleaded guilty yesterday for his role in a fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that former Thomas County Sheriff’s Deputy Julian Scott Law pleaded guilty today to assaulting a detainee inside of the Thomas County Jail in Thomasville, Georgia, thereby depriving the detainee of his civil rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2012
News Release: A New Castle, Del., man pleaded guilty today to one count of transportation of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Charles M. Oberly III of the District of Delaware and Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the FBI’s Baltimore Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2012
News Release: Elmo Antonio George and Nasheba Necia Hunte, formerly from the U.S. Virgin Islands and currently residents of Villa Rica, Ga., were found guilty today by a federal jury in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and filing false individual income tax returns for 2005 and 2006, the Justice Department and the IRS announced.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 16, 2012
News Release: Commerce Secretary John Bryson Remarks at Pavilion Furniture in Miami Gardens, Florida Good morning. Earlier today, I spent the morning with Miami manufacturers, exporters and others. I also took a tour of Port Miami which everyone knows is a huge hub for exports and tourism.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 16, 2012
News Release: Commerce Secretary John Bryson Remarks at the National Association of Manufacturers Board of Directors Dinner, Boca Raton, Florida Good evening. It’s great to be here with all of you. And it’s an exciting time to be an American manufacturer.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 16, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
