News from January 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after voting in support of legislation crafted by Vice President Joe Biden and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that would prevent massive tax increases on nearly every single tax-paying American...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement on the grounding Monday of Shell’s Kulluk mobile drilling unit off Kodiak Island, Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 1, 2013
News Release: Free Entrance Days in the National Parks.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement urging House Republicans to immediately bring up the Senate-passed legislation for an up-or-down vote...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 1, 2013
News Release: On a bi-partisan vote of 287-129 the House of Representatives approved H.R. 6726, a bill to overturn the President’s executive order that gave an across the board pay hike to Members of Congress and federal bureaucrats. The President’s executive order will cost taxpayers $11 billion over the next 10 years. The bill was introduced by Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, R-Pa. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., led debate on the House Floor.
By State Newswire | Jan 1, 2013
News Release: Late last night, the House of Representatives sent legislation originally authored by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) to the President’s desk to bolster the State Department’s rewards program, currently focused mainly on terrorists and drug traffickers. With the President’s signature, the rewards program will expand to also target transnational organized criminals and those wanted for the most serious human rights abuses.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) tonight made the following statement on the floor of the House of Representatives in support of the Senate Amendment to H.R. 8...
