News from May 2007
By DOT News Wire | May 14, 2007
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on May 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 14, 2007
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2007
News Release: On May 15 the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and the Committee on Foreign Affairs will host the Prime Minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt, to discuss energy policy, his country’s efforts to eliminate its dependence on fossil fuels by 2020 and Sweden’s growing concerns over global warming.
By USDA Newswire | May 14, 2007
News Release: Today, Congressman Bob Etheridge, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, held a hearing to review the Federal Crop Insurance Program.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2007
News Release: The public is invited to an “Open Cabin" on Thursday, May 24th, from 3:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. The artist cabin is located directly across from the entrance to Brandy Creek beach and picnic area on Kennedy Memorial Drive. The public will have the opportunity to see...
By State Newswire | May 14, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said the President needs to go well beyond the ideas he discussed today to confront climate change, and to assert U.S. leadership in a global approach to the crisis.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2007
News Release: I’ve stood on this floor many times over the past few months to advocate for the American families that will pay the alternative minimum tax in 2007. You have all heard me say that the AMT is an absolutely maddening tax that has insidiously crept into the homes of more and more families each year and that it should be repealed.
By USDA Newswire | May 14, 2007
News Release: Distiller's dried grains (DDGs)-coproducts of converting corn into ethanol-are usually fed to livestock. But a new use could be on tap: fighting weeds and reducing herbicide use.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2007
News Release: One of three juvenile California condors released in the past two weeks from Pinnacles National Monument died Saturday of unknown causes. It is being sent to the Forensics Laboratory in Ashland, Oregon, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By DOE Newswire | May 14, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to President Bush’s Executive Order issued today directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other relevant agencies, including the Department of Energy, to implement a new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) policy and mandate the use of alternative fuels, U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement:
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., expressed disappointment Sunday with the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s award of disaster funds to just two of five Connecticut counties damaged by a devastating nor'easter that hit the region in...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A former corrections officer and a former Arizona Army National Guardsmen were sentenced this week for their roles in a widespread bribery and extortion conspiracy, Assistant Attorney General Alice ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that on May 12, 2007, it will monitor local elections in the Denton Independent School District, Fort Bend County, Farmers Branch, and Killeen, Texas, to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The SCOOTER Store Inc. will pay the United States $4 million, and give up many millions more in pending claims for reimbursement to Medicare, to settle allegations that the company violated the civil False Claims Act and defrauded the United States, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The Justice Department today settled a lawsuit filed in November 2005, against Pacific Homes and Pacific Properties and Development Corp., the developers and builders, and Michael Milburn, the ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today reached a settlement agreement with the District of Columbia to resolve allegations of civil rights violations at St. Elizabeths Hospital, located in Washington, D.C. ...
By Commerce News Now | May 11, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON—Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez applauded the hearing by the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs for its consideration of the nomination of Mario Mancuso to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration and head of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS).
By Commerce News Now | May 11, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON—U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez released the following statement today following the transmittal of two reports to the President from the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and the Interagency Working Group on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders ...
By DOT News Wire | May 11, 2007
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 11, 2007
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
