News from February 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) will deliver the keynote address at Wednesday’s U.S. Chamber of Commerce “Let’s Rebuild America" transportation infrastructure summit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Michigan. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - William Russell Odett, 41, of Grandville, Michigan pleaded guilty on Monday, Feb. 11, 2013, to distributing images of child pornography via the Internet, U.S. Attorney Patrick...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement following President Obama’s State of the Union address...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have demonstrated that a new spectroscopy technique* can simultaneously measure a material's topography and chemical composition with nanometer-scale spatial resolution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: 430,000 in checks written for work never performed.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: FEB 12 - (MIAMI) - The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field (MFD), served an Order to Show (OSC) today on Walgreens Corporation d/b/a Walgreens #04391, located at 2501 Virginia Avenue, Fort Pierce, (hereafter “registrant"). An OSC is served as a notice to a DEA registrant to provide them an opportunity...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - The Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Energy and Commerce Committees today unveiled the ObamaCare Burden Tracker (#ObamaCareBurden). The Burden Tracker is a real-time online resource to help the public keep track of all of the new government mandates, rules, and red tape as a result of ObamaCare.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Oaklyn, New Jersey, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of access device fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: On Thursday, February 14 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), will hold a hearing entitled “Raising the Bar: How Education Innovation Can Improve Student Achievement." The hearing will take place in room 2261 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Orrin Hatch (R-UT) again called on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to explain how the agency determined it had the unilateral authority to waive welfare work requirements first established in the historic 1996 welfare reform law. The Department is more than three months late in responding to their initial request.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 30-year-old woman was sentenced for theft of public money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA"). United States District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank sentenced Vianca McCarter, of Kenner, Louisiana, to five years of probation on...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: Dear Ambassador Kirk: As you explore the possibility of entering into negotiations towards a free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU), we believe it is important to outline our expectations regarding the outcome of any such negotiations. There is no doubt that a U.S.-EU FTA is an enticing...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) will address the American Medical Association at the 2013 National Advocacy Conference on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at 8:00 a.m. at the Grand Hyatt Washington. Upton will discuss the health care law’s impact on physicians and...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade will host a Manufacturing Showcase featuring products manufactured in the subcommittee members’ districts. The Showcase will precede the subcommittee’s hearing, “Our Nation of Builders: Manufacturing in America, " and will display a variety of products - more than 50 individual items - made in the USA including auto parts, medical devices, and cutting-edge new electronics.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after President Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) will address the American Medical Association at the 2013 National Advocacy Conference on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at 8:00 a.m. at the Grand Hyatt Washington. Upton will discuss the health care law’s impact on physicians and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Michigan. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. Joint Federal and State Investigation Targets Gang Violence, Drug Dealing. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - A federal grand jury indicted 31 alleged members and associates of the Holland Latin Kings gang for...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved Energy and Commerce Committee legislation that would help military medics better integrate into civilian EMT jobs.
