News from September 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: “Overall, the transition to electronic payments has been a success. Ninety four percent of Social Security recipients and eight two percent of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients now get their payments electronically. For millions of Americans, electronic payment has helped them receive their earned benefits faster and more securely.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee (SVAC) passed measures similar to legislation introduced by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, that significantly expands foreclosure protections for servicemembers, their families, and disabled veterans.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Energy Department’s SunShot Initiative, which is working to make solar energy competitive with other forms of energy without subsidy by the end of the decade, the Energy Department today announced the start of a new competition to make it faster, easier, and cheaper to install...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued the following statement on U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) announcement that Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made partisan political statements in a...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: This morning, Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) delivered the following opening statement during a House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled, “The Obama Administration’s Abuse of Power"...
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee made the following statement in response to the attack on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens, and three other U.S. officials...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: Golden Gate National Recreation Area plans to conduct the 7-acre Lagoon Prescribed Fire during the week of Sept. 17, 2012, near the intersection of Bolinas-Fairfax Rd and Highway One, across from Bolinas Lagoon. Cooperators assisting the National Park Service will include Marin County Fire Department...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: Devils Tower National Monument offers curriculum based interactive education programs for grades K -12. Education programs include the Devils Tower in Your Classroom programs, and ranger guided field trips at the monument. For classes who plan to visit Devils Tower this year, a park ranger can present a pre and post visit program in the classroom.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued the following statement about Department of Energy Director of Strategic Initiatives Morgan Wright’s decision to refuse to appear for deposition pursuant to a lawful subpoena. Wright today became the first individual to ever defy a subpoena for a deposition issued under Oversight Committee authority first established in 2007 under then Chairman Henry Waxman.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: Statue of Liberty to re-open October 28.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: Members of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce today sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Director Joshua Gotbaum requesting documents and communications regarding the Obama administration’s involvement in closed door deals that resulted in Delphi union employees receiving more favorable treatment than their non-union coworkers.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced completion of initial steps toward developing a solar energy facility on a uranium mill tailings disposal site in southwestern Colorado.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: Statue of Liberty to re-open October 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge of the Miami Field Division, Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced today the revocation of DEA Registrations at two CVS Pharmacies located in Sanford, Florida. This action marks the first time the DEA has revoked the registration of a registrant that is part of a large national chain.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is investigating the theft of two specialized competition bicycles belonging to Olympic Gold Medalist Kristin Armstrong. The bicycles are believed to have been stolen while in transit from Germany to Idaho.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), and the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a joint hearing entitled, “Expanding the Power of Big Labor: The NLRB’s Growing Intrusion into ...
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator John Kerry, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement today in response to the violence that took place at the Egyptian and Libyan Embassies, resulting in the death of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other American embassy personnel.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: Washington State Conservationist Roylene Rises at the Door will discuss traditional American Indian conservation efforts and current tribal issues, state and nationwide, in a talk scheduled 7 p.m., Sunday September 23 at Skagit Valley College's Friday Harbor Campus.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: Point Marion, Pa. - Visitors to FestiFall 2012 will once again be transported back in time to life in the "Western Country" from 1786 to 1832, when American statesman Albert Gallatin maintained his Fayette County estate high on the cliffs above the Monongahela River in New Geneva. FestiFall runs Saturday...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2012
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that yesterday a federal jury found Alfredo (58, Riverview) guilty of conspiracy to possess with the intent...
