News published on Federal Newswire in January 2007

News from January 2007


News Release: National Park Service Outer Banks Group Superintendent, Michael B. Murray has announced that the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse will open to the public for climbing from April 20, 2007 through Columbus Day, October 8, 2007.


Fort Necessity Closed Martin Luther King and Washington's Birthday Holidays

News Release: Local National Parks Observe Martin Luther King and Washington's Birthday Holidays.


Baucus Warns Negotiators on Doha

News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), incoming Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today underscored the importance of securing tangible market access for U.S. goods and services in the Doha Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. Press accounts have reported on rumors...


REVISED: Domenici Announces Subcommittee Assignments

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Energy & Natural Resources Ranking Member Pete V. Domenici today announced the subcommittee assignments Republican Senators will hold during the 110th Congress.


BOXER PRAISES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES REPORT ON OMB

News Release: Incoming EPW Chair agrees with NAS assessment that OMB plan to standardize risk assessment is "fundamentally flawed" and should be withdrawn


News Release: Thank you very much, Madame Secretary. Let me begin where you left off, with the President’s speech last night. Both last November and in every subsequent public expression of their leaders’ views, what the American people are looking for is a responsible plan for de-escalation and not escalation.


News Release: "Quincy," a hardy new pinto bean, could give growers and breeders added insurance against attack by the bean common mosaic virus (BCMV).


Lantos Expresses Disappointment in President’s Plan for Iraq as Laid Out Tonight

News Release: “I oppose the so-called surge that constitutes the centerpiece of the President’s plan. Our efforts in Iraq are a mess, and throwing in more troops will not improve it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, together with myself and other committee heads on Capitol Hill, have repeatedly called for a phased reduction of the U.S. presence in Iraq. Nothing in the President’s speech changes that.


Baucus Hearing Statement on Tax Incentives for Businesses in Response to a Minimum Wage Increase

News Release: America’s Founders held it “to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.".


News Release: Senator Susan Collins today introduced a bipartisan resolution reaffirming that both federal law and the Constitution protect sealed domestic mail from being searched. The resolution is in response to a signing statement that the White House issued in conjunction with the signing of the Collins/Carper...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON –Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales today visited the U.S. border in Laredo, Texas and announced $300,000 in additional funding to boost efforts to combat drug trafficking in Laredo and McAllen, ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Sessions on January 30 and February 13 to Focus on Business Testimony WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) today announced that the latest ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Company Will Comply with Construction Schedule for Wastewater Treatment Plant WASHINGTON – M.G. Waldbaum Company, a subsidiary of Minnesota-based Michael Foods Inc., has agreed to pay a $1.05 million ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced that Fernando Reyes-Santillan, of Memphis, Tenn., pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of commercial sex trafficking of a minor, relating to his role ...


News Release: It's a great pleasure to be here again. I do want to take a moment to recognize the members of the District Export Council who are here and also members of the Commerce Department's U.S. Export Assistance Center. I'll be talking about some numbers regarding our exports today and these folks have a lot ...


News Release: LOS ANGELES—U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez issued the following statement on the November U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, which shows that the trade deficit of $58.2 billion was the lowest since July 2005. The deficit narrowed for the third-straight month and it is the first ...


U.S. Labor Department Sues Pennsylvania Company Over Pension Plan Violations

News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.