News from November 2005
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Tonight, America1s seniors and low-income residents were told that they1re being left out in the cold this winter. While Americans are facing some of the highest energy costs in decades and oil companies are raking in record profits, a measure to increase funding for energy assistance for theneediest...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Senate last night passed twenty-six Energy and Natural Resources Committee bills. All twenty-six bills were reported out of the Committee on September 28.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Superintendent Dusty Shultz has announced that effective Jan. 1, 2006, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will increase fees for those limited number of campsites in the park that are available through the national reservation system. Fees for first come, first served sites (non-reserved) remain the same.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: NIST has awarded two new Precision Measurement Grants to promote fundamental research in measurement science in U.S. colleges and universities. One grant was made to Edmund G. Myers of Florida State University (Tallahassee, Fla.) to carry out a sensitive measurement of the difference between the mass...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Tonight, America1s seniors and low-income residents were told that they1re being left out in the cold this winter. While Americans are facing some of the highest energy costs in decades and oil companies are raking in record profits, a measure to increase funding for energy assistance for theneediest...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Washington, D.C. Today, marking a dramatic step forward in healthcare, Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s bill, the Wired for Health Care Quality Act of 2005 passed the United States Senate by unanimous consent. The bill will improve the care that patients receive, as we know that care declines in quality when...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Denim, the sturdy cotton fabric used to make blue jeans, has always been cool. But it's about to get a whole lot cooler.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins, R-Me., and Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Friday expressed concern about allegations of large kickbacks paid to American officials for the award of contracts in Iraq. The Senators praised the Special Inspector...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Tonight, America1s seniors and low-income residents were told that they1re being left out in the cold this winter. While Americans are facing some of the highest energy costs in decades and oil companies are raking in record profits, a measure to increase funding for energy assistance for theneediest...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senators Edward M. Kennedy, Tom Harkin and Dick Durbin held a press conference to discuss the Labor HHS Appropriations conference report. Republican conferees stripped funding for avian flu preparedness, and the final proposal also lacks adequate resources for key education, health care, and job training initiatives.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, said the tax relief bill approved by his committee this week and advancing through the full Senate will keep 14 million families from paying the unfair alternative minimum tax, allow millions of low-income savers a continued benefit...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: A series of copper ridges nearly doubles the resolution of experimental X-ray sensors, enabling more precise identification of the X-ray "fingerprints" of different atoms, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report. The sensors are expected to be powerful tools for...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Dear Ambassador Gomez: I enjoyed speaking with you last month concerning the negotiations of the U.S.-Andean Free TradeAgreement (FTA). Following up on our meeting, I would like to express some of my concernsregarding the agricultural talks between the United States and Colombia that are taking place...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Senate Democrats led by Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Jack Reed offered an amendment to the Tax Reconciliation bill to provide 2.92 billion dollars in federal assistance to low-income and elderly residents for energy assistance. The funding would be paid for by using windfall...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2005
News Release: Tonight, America1s seniors and low-income residents were told that they1re being left out in the cold this winter. While Americans are facing some of the highest energy costs in decades and oil companies are raking in record profits, a measure to increase funding for energy assistance for theneediest...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2005
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2005 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Company Will Pay $1 Million Fine and Develop Environmental Management System WASHINGTON, D.C. - Karlog Shipping Company Ltd. (Karlog Shipping)-operator of a fleet of cargo freighters based in Piraeus, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2005
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2005 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 JAKARTA, INDONESIA - In a meeting today in Jakarta with Indonesian National Police (INP) Chief Sutanto, U.S. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales delivered a check to the Government of Indonesia in the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2005
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2005 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Rockledge Man Sold Corporation Sole Materials WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Justice Department announced today that a Florida federal court has permanently barred James Kent Lansing, of Rockledge, from selling ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2005
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2005 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 The Justice Department today announced that John Barnett pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2005, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan to violating the civil rights of members of the Islamic Center of America, located in Detroit, Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2005
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2005 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Investigations Conclude Acquisition of Instinet Group Inc. by NASDAQ and Merger of NYSE and Archipelago Holdings Would Not Reduce Competition WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Department of Justices Antitrust ...
