News from December 2003

By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2003
News Release: WASHINGTON - In an ongoing effort to oversee protection of the nation's undeveloped public lands, Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Wednesday asked the Department of the Interior to release documents regarding rights of way claims for highways on federal lands in Utah.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2003
News Release: When Agricultural Research Service scientists were called upon in 2002 to study sediment's effects on a Mississippi waterway, they took things a step further and tested techniques aimed at helping states comply with a key provision of the federal Clean Water Act.

By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2003
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security violated the law by failing to assess the privacy impact of new technology set to be deployed at airports next month, Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., said Thursday. In a letter to DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Lieberman said DHS failed to conduct and make public a “privacy impact assessment"on biometric technology developed for use by a new entry-exit checking system known as US VISIT.

By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2003
News Release: Dear Mr. President: I am writing to express my concerns, and the concerns of many Iowa businesses and workers,regarding the steel safeguard tariffs that have been in place since March 2002. When you announced the decision to impose steel safeguard tariffs, you stated that thepurpose of the tariffs...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2003
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2003 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, and Debra W. Yang, United States Attorney for the Central District of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2003
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2003 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal judge in Buffalo, New York, today sentenced Mukhtar al-Bakri, to 10 years in prison on a charge of providing material support to the al Qaeda terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2003
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2003 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 616-2777 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Justice Department today announced its findings and conclusions regarding conditions of confinement at the McPherson and Grimes Correctional Units in Newport, Arkansas. The Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2003
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2003 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 EPA (312) 353-6218 (202)564-7818 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Justice Department, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the State of Ohio and the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) today announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2003
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2003 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Peekskill, New York linen supply company and its president pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to allocate customers for linen supply services in the New York City ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2003
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2003 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 PHILADELPHIA - Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Departments Civil Rights Division R. Alexander Acosta, U.S. Attorney Patrick L. Meehan and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent-in-Charge Jeffrey A. Lampinski today announced a guilty verdict in a criminal civil rights case.

By Labor Gazette | Dec 3, 2003
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.

By Labor Gazette | Dec 3, 2003
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 3, 2003
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 3, 2003
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 3, 2003
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2003
The US Interior Department published a six page proposed rule on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Dec 3, 2003
The US State Department published a one page notice on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 3, 2003
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 3, 2003
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 3, 2003
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.