News from October 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Wally Herger (R-CA), and Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) called on Health and Human Services...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Mike Enzi (R-WY), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor released a new report entitled The Imperial Presidency to highlight the Obama administration’s massive regulatory overreach and disregard for the legislative process. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has been on the frontlines...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: Estes Park, CO -The past several days of strong, gusty winds have caused an increase in fire activity on the Fern Lake Fire. In anticipation of predicted warm and windier weather today, fire managers have ordered a heavy helicopter to assist with suppression efforts.A Type I helitanker arrived at the Loveland Airport late Monday and is expected to begin water drops on the fire as needed Tuesday morning, if weather conditions allow.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor released a new report entitled The Imperial Presidency to highlight the Obama administration’s massive regulatory overreach and disregard for the legislative process. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has been on the frontlines...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities that provides a cooperative framework for Interior and HACU to develop programs that engage the Hispanic community and Hispanic-Serving Institutions. The Bureau of Reclamation will manage the MOU for the Department.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA: On Friday, November 2nd at 1:30pm, Associate Professor Donald Linebaugh, author of The Springfield Gas Machine: Illuminating Industry and Leisure, 1860s-1920s, will tell the fascinating story of a one-of-a-kind invention, the Springfield Gas Machine. Assisted by Park Historian, Richard...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that 21 projects in eight states have been funded through the Tribal College Initiative Grant program to make campus improvements, provide outreach and educational offerings. Janie Hipp, Senior Advisor to the Secretary made the announcement on the Secretary’s behalf while attending the National Congress of American Indians Annual Conference.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 23, 2012 - Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) granted a request by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) to extend the comment period of the FWS and NOAA Fisheries Proposed...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: High Angle Rescue of Stranded Climber in Snow Storm Successful.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released a new report detailing repeated occasions when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) failed to protect beneficiaries who had their Social Security Number (SSN) compromised.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Office of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor released a new report entitled The Imperial Presidency to highlight the Obama administration’s massive regulatory overreach and disregard for the legislative process. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has been on the frontlines...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2012
News Release: The National Park Service at Gettysburg National Military Park (NMP) and Eisenhower National Historic Site (NHS) are evaluating impacts to the parks' deer management program in response to a recent finding of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a deer near Gettysburg, Pa.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2012- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today made the following statement on the U.S. - Panama Trade Promotion Agreement: "The U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement (Panama TPA) enters into force next week, eliminating tariffs and other barriers to U.S. goods and services, promoting ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2012 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today made the following statement on the passing of USDA employee John Lydon: "I was saddened late last week to learn of the death of Dr. John Lydon, who passed away from injuries sustained in a car crash while in the line of duty. Over ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2012
News Release: Former chief of the Omega, Ga., Police Department, Walter Young, 54, was sentenced today for physically abusing a man in his custody, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2012
News Release: Sylvester Bruce, 45, a former corrections officer with Navajo Nation’s Shiprock Detention Center (SDC) in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court on charges related to the sexual abuse of an inmate during the summer and fall of 2010. In July 2012, Bruce pleaded guilty to one count of violating ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department and U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia Michael J. Moore announced today that Stacy Bloodsworth, the former sheriff of Wilcox County, Ga., pleaded guilty to assaulting an inmate inside the Wilcox County jail and subsequently conspiring to cover up the assault. Bloodsworth’s ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 22, 2012
News Release: Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank today applauded the announcement that the U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement will go into effect on October 31. The agreement will significantly increase the ability of American companies to export their products to one of Latin America’s fastest-growing economies, while dramatically reducing the tariff rates across the range of U.S. industrial and agricultural goods.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2012
The US Interior Department published a four page notice on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
