News from October 2006
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2006
News Release: Dear Administrator McClellan: The United States Senate Committee on Finance (Committee) has jurisdiction over the Medicare and Medicaid programs and, accordingly, a responsibility to the more than 80 million Americans who receive health care coverage under those programs to ensure that program resources...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 12, 2006
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Wyndmoor, Pa., are improving methods to detect foodborne pathogens like the potentially deadly Listeria monocytogenes.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2006
News Release: Frank C. Fiala, Superintendent of Keweenaw National Historical Park since April, 1997, will retire on Jan. 3, 2007, after nearly 32 years of Federal service. Fiala’s assignments during his National Park Service career have included park ranger and management positions at Lake Clark National Park and...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2006
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first confirmed "spintronic" device incorporating organic molecules, a potentially superior approach for innovative electronics that rely on the spin, and associated magnetic orientation, of electrons. The physicists created a nanoscale test structure to obtain clear evidence of the presence and action of specific molecules and magnetic switching behavior.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 12, 2006
News Release: Oct. 12, 2006 Washington DC - Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee responded to today's Oct. 12, 2006 New York Times global warming editorial titled, "Doubting Inhofe." ) In the past few weeks, Senator Inhofe has raised numerous questions regarding ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2006
News Release: (Baltimore, Maryland) - A federal grand jury indicted the following defendants for conspiring to distribute, outside the scope of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose, at least eight million dosage units of hydrocodone and conspiracy to commit money laundering in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Investigation Concludes That Combination Would Not Reduce Competition WASHINGTON Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department of Justices Antitrust Division, issued the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A U.S. contractor has been sentenced to six months in prison and six months of monitored home confinement for paying illegal gratuities to a former U.S. Army Director of Contracting and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - Crawford and Company, an insurance services firm, has agreed to pay the United States $1,363,204 to resolve allegations that between 1992 and 2002 it violated the False Claims Act when it ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV NSD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A former resident of Orange County, Calif., has been indicted in the Central District of California on charges of treason and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization for making a series of propaganda videotapes for al Qaeda, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A former Department of Defense (DOD) employee has been indicted on charges of accepting an illegal gratuity while deployed in the Republic of Iraq. Bonnie Murphy, who was a civilian disposal officer at Camp Victory, Iraq, allegedly accepted jewelry from an Iraqi contracting firm for her role in helping it receive and maintain three U.S. Army service contracts.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 11, 2006
News Release: Thank you, Neville Isdell, for that kind introduction. And thank you, Ambassador Ushakov, for sharing your insights.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 11, 2006
News Release: WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez today announced the business leaders who will participate in his Business Development Mission to Beijing and Shanghai, China, from November 13-17. The mission will highlight export opportunities for U.S. businesses by helping the participants develop business and government contacts, solidify business strategies and obtain market access information.
By USDA Wire | Oct 11, 2006
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Oct 11, 2006
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Oct 11, 2006
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 11, 2006
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 11, 2006
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 11, 2006
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 11, 2006
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
