News from October 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: Dear Chairmen: The House will be in session just eight days between August 3 and Nov. 13, although important legislation deserves our immediate attention: middle-income tax cuts, jobs bill, the Farm bill, and the Violence Against Women Act. We also should use the next four weeks to consider responsible...

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Obama administration today announced that 10 public-private partnerships across America will receive $20 million in total awards to help revitalize American manufacturing and encourage companies to invest in the United States.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: Tuskegee, Alabama: The George Washington Carver Museum, one of the two featured sites at Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site and one of the most visited sites in Macon County, will be closing for renovations beginning Oct. 15, 2012.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: A Report from the House Appropriations Committee, Democrats.

By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: Cameras Now in Place to Monitor Resources.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: NIST's David Wineland has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Professor Serge Haroche of the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure. Wineland was cited by the Nobel committee "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: We are thrilled at the news that NIST's David Wineland has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Professor Serge Haroche of the Collège de France and Ecole Normale Supérieure. Wineland was cited by the Nobel committee "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today requested bipartisan briefings from the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the recent fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated spinal steroid injections. According to the CDC, eight people have died and over 100 people have been sickened across nine states, and it is expected that the number expected may rise in the coming weeks.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: Office of Surface Mining Grants $312,000 to Fund Environmental Effort.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is in Europe for a series of high-level meetings with leaders regarding the eurozone’s ongoing fiscal crisis and its potential impact on the United States and the entire global economy. Over the next four days, the Senator will meet...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: FAJARDO, Puerto Rico - On Sept. 27, 2012, a federal grand jury charged 53 individuals in a superseding indictment as a result of an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement (DEA), the U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) Homeland Security (HSI), and the Puerto Rico Police (PRPD)- Fajardo Strike Force, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today expressed concern to the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) about a “stimulus" program that awarded $1 million to the U.K. company SamKnows to conduct a broadband speed test, an initiative that produced no American jobs according to the administration’s website Recovery.gov.

By Homeland Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report on the failure of some Transportation Security Officers (TSO) to...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today expressed concern to the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) about a “stimulus" program that awarded $1 million to the U.K. company SamKnows to conduct a broadband speed test, an initiative that produced no American jobs according to the administration’s website Recovery.gov.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: OCT 09 PHILADELPHIA, PA. - Keith Gidelson, 36, of Philadelphia, a former detective with the Philadelphia Police Department, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute anabolic steroids. Gidelson operated an anabolic steroid and human growth (“HGH") distribution organization in Philadelphia. He acquired steroids from foreign suppliers and then sold these steroids to his co-conspirators who distributed the drugs to their own customers.

By EPA Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today expressed concern to the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) about a “stimulus" program that awarded $1 million to the U.K. company SamKnows to conduct a broadband speed test, an initiative that produced no American jobs according to the administration’s website Recovery.gov.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today requested bipartisan briefings from the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the recent fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated spinal steroid injections. According to the CDC, eight people have died and over 100 people have been sickened across nine states, and it is expected that the number expected may rise in the coming weeks.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: Biscayne National Park came through the recent Columbus Day Weekend relatively unscathed this year. The weekend is traditionally one of the busiest and most dangerous of the year in the System's largest marine park.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today requested bipartisan briefings from the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regarding the recent fungal meningitis outbreak linked to contaminated spinal steroid injections. According to the CDC, eight people have died and over 100 people have been sickened across nine states, and it is expected that the number expected may rise in the coming weeks.

By Commerce Newswire | Oct 9, 2012
News Release: David J. Wineland, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. The honor is NIST's fourth Nobel prize in physics in the past 15 years.