News published on Federal Newswire in January 2004

News from January 2004


Chairman Collins to FDA: Positive Steps on Tissue Banks, But More Work Remains

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-ME) said that while the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) expansion of tissue bank registration requirements is a positive step, the agency still needs to move forward with two proposed regulations governing tissue bank...


News Release: JAN 22- Washington, D.C. - The Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC), Ms. Laura M. Nagel of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced that a methamphetamine lab had been disabled. The DEA worked with the Charles County Sheriff's Office who uncovered a methamphetamine lab on January 12 and arrested a 28-year-old man for manufacturing the drug.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Thursday asked Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist about issues arising from a hunting trip Justice Antonin Scalia took with Vice President Dick Cheney...


Collins Calls U.S.-Saudi Effort to Crack Down on Terrorist Financiers a “Positive Step”

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins called today’s U.S.-Saudi announcement to designate as terrorist financiers four branches of the so-called charitable group al Haramain a “positive step." “This is a positive step in the fight to crack down on terrorist financing,"...


News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman announced today that Nelson Cox, a U.S. Department of Agriculture microbiologist at Athens, Ga., has been named the Agricultural Research Service's Distinguished Senior Research Scientist of the Year for 2003.


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorney General John Ashcroft, Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray of the Criminal Division, and U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger of the District of Minnesota announced today that Mohammed Abdullah Warsame has been charged with conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda, a designated foreign terrorist organization.


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 EPA (312) 353-8254 TDD (202) 514-1888 CHICAGO, IL - The Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency today announced they have reached an agreement with Dominick’s Finer Foods LLC to resolve alleged violations of federal regulations to protect stratospheric ozone.


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and Christopher J. Christie, U.S. Attorney for the State of ...


The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a four page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Jan. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.