News published on Federal Newswire in February 2004

News from February 2004


Lieberman Calls for  $14 Billion More For Homeland Security to Meet Needs Assessed By Bi-Partisan, Independent Analysts

News Release: WASHINGTON - Calling the Bush Administration’s homeland security budget for next year “less than meets the eye and far less than is truly needed," Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Tuesday proposed additional funding above the $47 billion provided for in the President’s...


DOMENICI CALLS FOR SWIFT PASSAGE OF LEANER ENERGY BILL TO ADDRESS NATION'S ELECTRICITY CHALLENGES

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici today urged the swift passage of S. 2095 as the surest, swiftest way to prevent future power outages such as the one in August that left 50 million people without electricity and cost the economy an estimated $5 billion. Chairman ...


News Release: Washington, D.C. - The League of Conservation Voters today mischaracterized comprehensive energy legislation pending before Congress in the release of its 2003 National Environmental Scorecard. The LCV cited defeat of comprehensive energy legislation as its number one priority in the 60-page report made ...


With Just a Sprinkle, Plants Soak Up More Selenium

News Release: Because of their ability to sop up selenium, some plants have been enlisted in efforts to clean up soils and wastewater that have an excess of this potentially toxic element. Now Agricultural Research Service scientists have shown that the way contaminated irrigation water is delivered to plants affects how much selenium they will absorb from it.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - The New York Times today published a story on Saudi Arabia’s declining oil fields. The story noted that U.S. energy forecasts call for Saudi Arabia to nearly double its output in the next decade and beyond. However, U.S. and Saudi sources told the newspaper that Saudi Arabia’s production ...


INHOFE QUESTIONS ENVIRO SCORECARD; LCV OR DNC? 
Says scorecard amounts to, “election year politics”

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Environment & Public Works Committee, commented today on the “environmental scorecard" for Members of Congress released today by the left-leaning League of Conservation Voters (LCV). “It is disappointing that for another year in a row the ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 EPA (202) 564-8684 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Buckeye Egg Farm, L.P., the largest commercial egg producer in Ohio, today agreed to a comprehensive Clean Air Act settlement under which the company will spend more ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray of the Criminal Division, Thomas Kneir, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago office of the FBI, and Harvey G. Florian, General Services Administration Regional Inspector General, announced today that former FBI typist Theresa Pitt has been sentenced on charges of disclosing oral and wire communications.


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Justice Department today announced the results of its investigation into the conditions of confinement at the Metropolitan State Hospital (“Metropolitan”), in Norwalk, California. ...


Labor Department To Recover $80,000 for Retirees Of Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center

News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a four page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a seven page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.