News from September 2006
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee will hold a full committee hearing and Water & Power Subcommittee hearing next week.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: This beach access report is being distributed to clarify which sections of beach will reopen or remained closed on Sept. 16, 2006.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park in cooperation with the Central Federal Lands Highway Division of the Federal Highways Administration has announced that they will soon be accepting bids on the Lassen Volcanic National Park Road project. Both design and environmental compliance for the next section of road...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Senator Joe Lieberman, D.-Conn., and September 11th reform advocate Mary Fetchet addressed students Friday at Fairfield University on the unfinished business of the 9/11 commission and the future of fighting terrorism and securing the American people here at home. While noting significant progress in...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Who: Public Lands & Forests Subcommittee
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Officials at Glacier National Park report that Glacier's specific restrictions on campfires in backcountry sites have been rescinded. Campfires are once again allowed in all front and backcountry sites with designated fire grates. Visitors are reminded that campfires should be "dead...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, made the following comment on the port security bill approved by the Senate yesterday.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Officials at Glacier National Park report that VECI, Inc., from Missoula, Mont., will begin construction on a portion of the sewer force main that runs along the Going-to-the-Sun Road from Rising Sun to the St. Mary Campground on Sept. 18, 2006. The project is expected to be completed by the end of October.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Today, Thursday, Sept. 14, at approximately noon a park ranger in the Alpine Visitor Center was notified by a visitor of a vehicle fire one quarter mile west of the Forest Canyon Overlook on Trail Ridge Road. The ranger responded to the scene within ten minutes. He found a 1990 jeep wrangler completely...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, today introduced the Emergency Trade Program Extension Act of 2006. The bill extends several important trade programs set to expire soon. Baucus’s bill, an identical companion to legislation introduced...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: There's no upstaging watermelon at a summer picnic. The much-loved fruit, with its juicy red flesh and seed-spitting fun, is also one of the best sources of lycopene around. Lycopene is a red-pigmented antioxidant thought to guard against heart disease and some cancers.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., the Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Friday that passage of the Port Security Improvement Act of 2006, which he co-sponsored, takes a great stride toward securing one of the nation’s remaining homeland security vulnerabilities,...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: On Constitution Day, Sept. 18, four federal government agencies will collaborate in conducting the first naturalization ceremony ever to be held outside a courthouse in the northern district of Iowa.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ - Park Superintendent Lee Baiza announced that visitation decreased 14% this August from last year with 64,930 visits compared to last year’s 75,807. The year-to-date total is 437,250 which is down by 3% from last year.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the nomination of Michael J. Astrue to be Commissioner of the Social Security Administration...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, today expressed full support for U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab’s decision to challenge before a World Trade Organization panel China’s discriminatory rules affecting auto parts. In 2005, China...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2006
News Release: Agents from the Shenandoah County Team of the Northwest Virginia Regional Drug Task Force and Drug Enforcement Administration arrested Saul Benitez-Garcia, 28, of 102 Williamson Road, Winchester, VA, in Strasburg, Virginia on Sept. 15, 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Maryland, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced today that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A Tacoma, Wash., couple was charged today with forcing a Filipino woman into servitude for over a year at their former residence in Culver City, Calif., the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON Jim Bob Brown, a former executive of a subsidiary of Houston-based Willbros Group Inc. who worked in Nigeria and South America, has pleaded guilty to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by conspiring with others to bribe officials of the governments of Nigeria and Ecuador, the Department of Justice announced today.
