News published on Federal Newswire in January 2004

News from January 2004


The US Agriculture Department published a three page notice on Jan. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a three page notice on Jan. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


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


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


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


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


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


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


American Taxpayers Bilked For $6 Million In Halliburton Bribes

News Release: WASHINGTON - Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Friday issued the following statement in response to a Wall Street Journal report that two Halliburton employees took $6 million in kickbacks for awarding a Kuwaiti-based company with lucrative work supplying U.S. troops in Iraq...


News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 23--Scientists who developed a diagnostic test for avian influenza and a faster-growing catfish won the Agricultural Research Service's top technology transfer awards for 2003. ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture 's chief in-house scientific research agency.


Chairman Collins Commends Efforts to Increase Federal Worker Pay

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The U.S. Senate this week approved an omnibus appropriations bill that included a 4.1 percent pay increase for federal employees, effective January 2004. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-ME), whose committee has jurisdiction over federal employee pay, had...


News Release: What do people and papayas have in common?.


News Release: WASHINGTON - On the first anniversary of the Homeland Security Department, Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Friday issued a top ten list of the most pressing priorities for the Department. At the very top of the list is an appeal to the Administration to provide the leadership and resources the Department needs to carry out its duties.


Reclamation Seeks Proposals for Desalination Research, Pilots, and Demonstrations

News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking pre-proposals in three categories for desalination research and studies, pilot-plant activities, and demonstration projects. Improving desalination technologies to make them more affordable and accessible is one of the principles of the Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton's Water 2025 initiative to help prevent crises and conflict over water resources in the West.


Grassley Aids Effort to Curb Accounting Firms' Financial Statement Manipulation

News Release: In 2002, Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, tried to amend theSarbanes-Oxley accounting standards improvement bill to prohibit public auditors from renderingan audit opinion on the financial statement effects of any tax shelter arrangements that the auditingfirm sells to an audit...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray of the Criminal Division, Enron Task Force Director Leslie R. Caldwell and Assistant Director ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Justice Department today announced the successful resolution of its three-year investigation into the use of force by the Prince George’s County, Maryland Police Department. R. ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tom Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and Todd P. Graves, United States Attorney for the Western District today announced a settlement that resolves ozone-depletion violations of the Clean Air Act by various Sam’s Club stores in eleven states.


News Release: MEDIA ADVISORY THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senior officials from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division will hold a background briefing on the resolution of the “pattern or practice investigation” into the Prince George’s County Maryland Police Department, TODAY, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2004 at 1:30 p.m. in the Civil Rights Division Conference Room 3612.


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray of the Criminal Division, and U.S. Attorney Alice H. Martin of the Northern District of Alabama ...