News from July 2007
By DOT News Wire | Jul 30, 2007
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 30, 2007
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 30, 2007
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 30, 2007
The US Commerce Department published a one page proposed rule on July 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel released a report today from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which shows that African American children are twice as likely to enter foster care than White children, even though children of all races are equally as likely to suffer from abuse and neglect. The report also found that Black children remain in foster care longer than other children.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 30, 2007
News Release: Many of the best ideas in public policy are the simplest. The Children’s Health InsuranceProgram is based on one simple and powerful idea - that all children deserve a healthy start inlife, and that no parents should have to worry about whether they can afford to take theirchild to the doctor when the...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 30, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senators Joe Lieberman and Dianne Feinstein today announced final agreement with the House on the text of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act. This bicameral agreement contains the most sweeping ethics and lobbying reforms in generations.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Ten United States Senators returned Sunday from a two-day trip to Greenland to view the effects of global warming, and to learn more about the impacts of changing climate on the ice and glaciers of the world's largest island.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2007
News Release: ***NOTE: Senators will hold a press conference at 1:00 pm ET in the Senate Radio and TV Gallery to discuss the trip, and they will have a slideshow of the trip available for viewing then.***
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. informed congressional leaders today that the U.S. will reach the current statutory debt limit in early October 2007. In the attached letter, Secretary Paulson requested congressional action to raise the limit as soon as possible. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) issued the following response...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2007
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley issued the comment below about the FDA advisory board meeting today regarding the diabetes drug Avandia. Sen. Grassley is Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance and has sought legislative and administrative reforms to strengthen the FDA’s post- market surveillance of pharmaceuticals.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley is broadening his inquiry into allegations of mismanagement at the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health.
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2007
News Release: Mr. Speaker, let me first commend my friend and our distinguished colleague, Congressman Mike Honda of California, for introducing this very important resolution and for all his hard work to give voice to the so-called “comfort women.".
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2007
News Release: Move over, soybeans and corn: Peanuts may be elbowing their way into the biodiesel fuel market. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are searching for economically feasible peanut varieties for that very purpose.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2007
News Release: This year as visitors attending the Honor America Days concert gaze upon Fort Stanwix National.
By State Newswire | Jul 28, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - In response to the public reports of the Administration’s plans for new arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states, Chairman Tom Lantos (D-CA) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee issued this statement today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON Two former ITXC Corporation executives have pleaded guilty and one former executive has been sentenced in the District of New Jersey in relation to their participation in a foreign bribery scheme, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON Geoffrey Golden, 57, of Pella, Iowa, was sentenced to 63 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge James Gritzner for possession of child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G. Whitaker of the Southern District of Iowa announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON Joseph P. Nacchio, 57, the former chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International Inc., was sentenced to 6 years in prison for insider trading, the Justice Department announced today.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 27, 2007
News Release: CHAIRMAN LAZEAR: Well, thanks for being here. I'm going to lead off. I'm Ed Lazear, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce; Hank Paulson, Secretary of Treasury; Rob Portman, Director of Office of Management and Budget are next to me. I will lead, just talk for about two or three minutes. If you have any questions, please ask me right then, because then I will be leaving, and then my colleagues are going to take over from there.
