News from September 2012
By State Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - This morning, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) delivered the following statement on the nomination of the Honorable Robert Stephen Beecroft, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Iraq.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: A canyoneering fatality was located in Zion National Park on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. The name has not been released pending notification of relatives.
By State Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - At a business meeting led by Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) this afternoon, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the following legislation, resolutions, and nominations en bloc by voice vote:
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a “flash crash" in oil prices on Monday, when oil prices dipped by more than $3 in just one minute, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today asked the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to expand its investigation into the event to include the larger effects of so-called “high-frequency trading" on the marketplace. While Tuesday’s events still have yet to be fully explained, high-speed computer trading is a prime suspect.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: Fire Management staff at Point Reyes National Seashore are planning up to three days of controlled burning over the next several weeks along Highway One in the Olema Valley. The first of these burns is scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 27, but the date could change based on weather conditions. The three...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: Holder vs. His Chief of Staff on What He Needs to Know
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Vito S. Guarino, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Philadelphia Division, and Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, announce the arrests of...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech at the Heritage Foundation today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch(R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, outlined the facts involving the Obama Administration’s decision to grant itself the authority to exempt states from the work requirements that were a critical...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today questioned administration witness on her legislation to prohibit the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) from collecting land-use fees from hydropower projects on land that the federal government no longer owns during a Water and Power Subcommittee hearing in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: In celebration of National Archaeology Month, Tubac Presidio State Historic Park and Tumacácori National Historical Park will collaborate to provide special tours of two unique archaeological sites on Sunday, October 7, 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawaiʻi - Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is ready for its close up, and invites students to focus their cameras on the park and enter the fourth annual Digital Mountain Film Festival.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, heard the testimony during the Committee’s annual hearing on threats to the homeland.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: Despite today’s misleading claims by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that Medicare Advantage (MA) “remains strong," the facts tell a different story. Take a look...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: SAN DIEGO, CA - Forty six people are in custody following Operation Cruel Summer in the Fallbrook area of San Diego County, 34 of those including a juvenile were arrested in today's sweep. Today's sweep was conducted from 6:00 a.m. to noon. The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Violent Trafficker Team, (VTT) in...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Democrats blocked consideration of legislation by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to put a stop to the Obama Administration unilaterally gutting work requirements that are the cornerstone of the landmark bipartisan 1996 welfare reform law. Earlier today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that no Administration has ever determined that it has the authority to waive these work requirements.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its latest report on the Obama Administration’s proposal to waive work requirements for welfare recipients, which was announced by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on July 12, 2012. While a prior...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Republican hypocrisy will make yet another appearance tomorrow when the House GOP brings up their welfare waiver resolution. What they won’t tell you is that in 2002, 2003, and 2005 Republicans passed legislation on the House floor that would have allowed waivers of the work participation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA. - Niki Aguillard, 41, a resident of Houma, Louisiana, was sentenced by U. S. District Judge Helen G. Berrigan to ten (120 months) imprisonment for being part of a conspiracy involving the trafficking of 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Berrigan imposed five years of supervised release following the term of imprisonment.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Energy Department marked two important milestones in the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) project in Decatur, Illinois, a major clean coal project and the Department’s first large-scale industrial carbon capture and storage demonstration project.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - IG Report’s Findings on why Attorney General Holder was not aware of Crucial Information about Operation Fast and Furious and Other Gunwalking (p. 453):
