News published on Federal Newswire in December 2002

Notice published on Dec. 11 by Agriculture Department

By USDA Wire | Dec 11, 2002

The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Notice published by Commerce Department on Dec. 11

By Commerce News Now | Dec 11, 2002

The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Proposed rule published by Interior Department on Dec. 11

By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2002

The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Grassley Praises U.S.-Chile Trade Agreement

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2002

News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, incoming chairman of the Committee on Finance,.

Baucus Statement on U.S.-Chile FTA Negotiations

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2002

News Release: I am encouraged by the progress that our negotiators have made over the past week toward concluding a strong free trade agreement with Chile. As is the case with the U.S.-Singapore FTA, the U.S.-Chile FTA is important both for the direct commercial benefits that it will bring to both countries as well as for the template that it provides for future free trade agreements.

Grassley to Give Major Anti-health Fraud Speech

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2002

News Release: WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley, incoming chairman of the Committee on Finance, is scheduled to give a keynote address at a major anti-health care fraud conference in February. Grassley, the Senate author of the 1986 amendments strengthening the False Claims Act, is expected to address the state of health care fraud enforcement and the Finance Committee’s health care oversight agenda in the 108th Congress.

Lieberman Welcomes Appointment of Two Connecticut Residents to Postal Commission

By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2002

News Release: WASHINGTON- Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (D-Conn)., Wednesday, welcomed two Connecticut citizens - Yale University President Richard C. Levin and PanAmSat President and CEO Joseph R. Wright - to a new commission that will spend the next seven months looking for ways to reform the U.S. Postal Service.

Lieberman Calls for Greater Planning, Coordination, Communication Between Federal, State and Local Governments

By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2002

News Release: WASHINGTON - Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Tuesday expressed concern that a lack of communication and coordination between the federal and local governments may impair efforts to protect Americans from terrorism and guarantee a “swift, sure and seamless response" in the event of future attacks.

Lieberman Welcomes Appointment of Two Connecticut Residents to Postal Commission

By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2002

News Release: WASHINGTON- Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman (D-Conn)., Wednesday, welcomed two Connecticut citizens - Yale University President Richard C. Levin and PanAmSat President and CEO Joseph R. Wright - to a new commission that will spend the next seven months looking for ways to reform...

Frozen Food Discoveries Win National Science Award

By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2002

News Release: ALBANY, Calif., Dec. 11-Today's delightfully varied selection of tasty, easy-to-prepare frozen foods results largely from pioneering research conducted in Albany, Calif., by experts with the Agricultural Research Service. Working in the 1940s through mid-1960s, chemists, engineers and other specialists at the agency's Western Regional Research Center at Albany carried out detailed investigations of all the steps required for taking a food from field to freezer to fork.

FEDERAL JUDGE SHUTS DOWN REPARATIONS TAX PREPARER

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2002

News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2002 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. On Dec. 9, a federal court in Macon, Ga., permanently barred Willie Henry Haugabook of Montezuma, Ga., from preparing federal income-tax returns. Judge C. Ashley Royal also ordered ...

STATEMENT BY R. HEWITT PATE ON THE ABANDONMENT OF THE HUGHES/ECHOSTAR TRANSACTION

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2002

News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2002 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 616-2777 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - R. Hewitt Pate, Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department's Antitrust Division, issued the following statement today after Hughes and EchoStar announced they were abandoning their merger plans.

SYNCOR TAIWAN, INC. PLEADS GUILTY TO VIOLATING THE FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2002

News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2002 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C.-Michael Chertoff, Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, and Debra W. Yang, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, announced today ...

STATEMENT BY BARBARA COMSTOCK, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, REGARDING THE SECOND CIRCUIT'S REVIEW OF JUDGE RAKOFF'S DECISION FINDING THE FEDERAL DEATH PENALTY UNCONSTITUTIONAL:

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2002

News Release: View the decision (PDF) FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY DECEMBER 10, 2002 WWW.USDOJ.GOV OPA (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 "Congress passed the Federal Death Penalty Act to save lives, and the Supreme Court has upheld state and federal statutes providing for capital punishment for over two hundred years. ...