News from May 2006
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2006
News Release: Nomination of Lurita Alexis Doan to be Administrator, General Services Administration Senator Joe Lieberman May 22, 2006.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2006
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Pete V. Domenici today voiced his intention to monitor the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s goal of changing management and organizational practices in response to recent National Research Council (NRC) recommendations.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2006
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will conduct a field hearing on the estimated 800 billion barrels of recoverable oil locked in oil shale on federal land in Utah and Colorado. The hearing will focus on emerging technologies for extracting the oil and new federal RD&D leases to help refine the technology and bring the oil to market.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2006
News Release: The three vehicle accessible campgrounds in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore are open for the season. "Though the official opening date for the lakeshore campgrounds at Little Beaver Lake, Hurricane River, and Twelvemile Beach is May 10, visitors were able to begin camping at Twelvemile Beach and Hurricane River Campgrounds in mid April," according to Lakeshore Superintendent Jim Northup.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2006
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla.--The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced grants totaling $4.5 million to five organizations affiliated with NIST's Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) to assist manufacturers in Gulf Coast regions hard hit by last year's hurricanes.
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2006
News Release: A new, highly sensitive diagnostic test to detect viruses associated with poult enteritis complex, or PEC, has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Athens, Ga. This disease of young turkeys causes diarrhea, poor weight gain and, in some cases, high mortality.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member on the Senate Finance Committee, today told Japanese Ambassador Ryozo Kato that Japan should end its ban on American beef immediately. Ambassador Kato visited Baucus and Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Capitol Hill today to discuss the beef ban and other trade issues. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is expected to visit the U.S. in late June.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2006
News Release: Harkers Island, North Carolina. Superintendent Bob Vogel announces the summer activities starting Saturday, May 28 through September 4th, at the Cape Lookout National Seashore. Working in cooperation with the North Carolina Coastal Federation, the Carteret County Parks and Recreation, the Davis Island Fishing Foundation, and on-land transportation companies, the seashore has been able to add a number of new programs, new program formats, and additional locations.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2006
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, issued the following comment today about Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. (1921- 2006), who chaired the Finance Committee from 1987 to 1993, before becoming Secretary of the Treasury.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, MAY 22, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The Justice Department today announced that James Fetter, a former officer with the Memphis Police Department, pleaded guilty to involvement in two conspiracies to deprive individuals of their civil rights and to willfully using his position as a police officer to steal money during a traffic stop in Memphis, Tenn.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, MAY 22, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Officials Charged with Conspiracy, Fraud, Money Laundering WASHINGTON, D.C. A federal grand jury in Columbus, Ohio, has indicted seven former executives of National Century Financial Enterprises (NCFE) on ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, MAY 22, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTONThe Justice Department today announced that it will monitor the May 23, 2006 primary election in Pulaski County, Ark.
By Commerce News Now | May 22, 2006
News Release: Thank you all for coming today.
By Labor Gazette | May 22, 2006
News Release: Thai agricultural workers employed at Hawaiian farms SAN FRANCISCO — A Los Angeles-based firm employing overseas workers at two Hawaii farms has been ordered to pay $156,995 in back wages plus $135,450 in civil money penalties following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor. The department found that Global Horizons Manpower Inc., owned by Mordechai Orian, owes backwages to 88 temporary non-immigrant agricultural workers from Thailand.
By USDA Wire | May 22, 2006
The US Agriculture Department published a seven page notice on May 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2006
The US Interior Department published a four page proposed rule on May 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 22, 2006
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on May 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2006
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on May 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 22, 2006
The US Agriculture Department published an eight page notice on May 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 22, 2006
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on May 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
