News from December 2007
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Tuesday called on the federal government to learn from technological innovations used by the private sector to improve the delivery of government information and services. At a hearing titled “E-Government...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 10, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Monday asked the Department of Homeland Security for additional information on its recent decision to waive environmental requirements before building a section of the Southwest border fence. In a letter...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON & NEWARK, N.J. Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, N.J., has agreed to pay the United States $7.5 million to settle allegations that it defrauded Medicare, the Department of Justice announced today. The settlement resolves allegations that the hospital improperly increased charges to Medicare patients in order to obtain enhanced reimbursement from Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A member of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his participation in a racketeering enterprise, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Edward M. Yarbrough for the Middle District of Tennessee announced today.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
News Release: SECRETARY GUTIERREZ: Thank you and good morning. I am very delighted to be here with the Vice Minister to for this very special occasion. I was very pleased to witness two important commercial agreements between leading U.S. and Chinese companies. Timken with $100 million dollars in initial U.S. exports ...
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
News Release: Thank you. I am pleased to be in Beijing this week. Each time I visit there is change, from construction for the Olympics to the building cranes remaking the landscape.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
News Release: BEIJING—Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez today witnessed the signing of two commercial agreements in Beijing that will help facilitate over $100 million in U.S. exports to China. One agreement will help The Timken Company expand in China’s growing wind energy market. The second agreement between ...
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
News Release: BEIJING—U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez today celebrated the 100th Wal-Mart China store approval and the Loudi, China Supercenter store grand opening with China Ministry of Commerce officials and Wal-Mart China CEO Ed Chan. The approval and new store opening illustrate the growing bilateral economic relationship between China and the United States.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 10, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao announced that the U.S. Department of Labor has received an unqualified, or "clean," audit opinion, on its fiscal year 2007 financial statements, marking the department's 11th consecutive annual clean audit opinion.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 10, 2007
News Release: WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Woonsocket-based CVS Pharmacy Inc. has agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Labor civil money penalties totaling $226,598 and to pay 51 employees back wages totaling $38,151 following an investigation by the department that revealed violations of the wage and youth employment provisions of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Dec 10, 2007
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.
By Fed News Journal | Dec 10, 2007
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Dec 10, 2007
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 10, 2007
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Dec. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
