News from October 2004
By USDA Newswire | Oct 6, 2004
News Release: A new cotton sampling system developed by Agricultural Research Service scientists helps growers determine the different fiber qualities produced by their cotton plants throughout a harvested field.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2004
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici joined Senators Craig, Crapo, Landrieu, Graham of South Carolina, Fitzgerald, Sessions, Voinovich, Pryor, Lincoln, and Miller today in introducing a bipartisan resolution recognizing the critical role nuclear power plays in ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2004
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, today won near-final approval of his reforms to make sure taxpayers don’t inflate deductions for donations of cars and intellectual property to charity. Grassley’s committee has documented substantial abuse in these areas.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2004
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, has won near-final approval of his bipartisan proposal to give tax fairness to rural letter carriers.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2004
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, today won near-final approval of his restructuring of ethanol taxes to contribute more money to highways andhis tax incentives to encourage energy production from alternative sources. This comes just days after the President signed Grassley’s extension of the wind energy production tax credit into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2004
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, today won near-final approval of his key tax incentives and fairness measures for farmers, cooperatives and small businesses.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2004
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, today praised near-final approval of legislation to cut taxes for U.S. manufacturers, sole proprietors, partnerships, farms and small businesses that make products and create jobs, to reform and simplify international taxes for U.S.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 6, 2004
News Release: Most sweeping overhaul of nation’s intelligence community in more than 50 years Washington, DC - The U.S. Senate today approved the most comprehensive reform of the nation’s intelligence community since the Central Intelligence Agency was created in 1947. By a vote of 96 to 2 the Senate passed the Collins-Lieberman...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2004
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) U.S. Senator Max Baucus' amendment directing the Treasury Department to abide by new criteria for allocating resources in the war on terrorism passed the Senate today along with an intelligence reform bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2004
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, today won near-final passage of reforms to end unfair taxation in civil rights cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2004
News Release: FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C.- Attorney General John Ashcroft will deliver remarks at the Computer and Telecommunications Coordinators Conference in New York City on WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2004 at 11:00 A.M. EDT.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2004
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representatives of the United States and Canada today signed an agreement enhancing the process under which they will refer cases of anticompetitive activities to each others authorities ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2004
News Release: FOR PLANNING PURPOSES ONLY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C.- Attorney General John Ashcroft and other federal officials will hold a press conference TODAY, OCTOBER 5, at 12:15 P.M. EDT, regarding a telemarketing fraud matter.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2004
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 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; FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker; Assistant Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2004
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a civil suit seeking to stop Raymond Leo Bell, American Beauty Rose, and The Best Way, Inc., all of Yelm, Washington, from promoting fraudulent tax schemes that use sham trusts and other sham entities.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2004
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray of the Criminal Division, Enron Task Force Director Andrew Weissmann and Assistant Director Chris Swecker of the FBI announced today that Timothy Despain, the former Assistant Treasurer of Enron Corp., has pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2004
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2004 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2008 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Justice Department today announced the conviction of Alvin Jeremy Hampton, a former Carlisle, Arkansas police officer, on criminal civil charges. Specifically, Hampton was sentenced to 212 months (17 years and eight months) in prison for sexually abusing two men in his custody.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 5, 2004
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 5, 2004
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.
By USDA Wire | Oct 5, 2004
The US Agriculture Department published a four page rule on Oct. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
