News from January 2008
By Labor Gazette | Jan 15, 2008
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Beginning Tuesday, Jan. 22, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) will launch a series of hearings entitled, “Strengthening America’s Economy: Stimulus That Makes Sense." At the first two hearings, the Finance panel will hear from Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag and a number of other economic experts in an effort to determine...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2008
News Release: To: Reporters and Editors. Re: Commission on highway funding. Da: Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2008. A bipartisan commission created under the 2005 highway law today released its long-awaited report,recommending an increase of up to 40 cents per gallon in the federal gasoline tax. Sen. ChuckGrassley, ranking member...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2008
News Release: Dear Secretary Leavitt: We are writing to express our very serious concerns about the strategy your Department is pursuing with regard to children’s health care coverage through Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Recent actions by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2008
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park’s Chief of Facilities and Project Management John Kilpatrick and Glacier’s Sun Road Rehabilitation Project Manager/ Park Landscape Architect Jack Gordon were each honored in December with the 2007 Superior Service Award.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 15, 2008
News Release: KENNEDY ON HOUSE MINE SAFETY LEGISLATION WASHINGTON, DC- Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in anticipation of the House of Representatives taking up the Supplemental Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2008
News Release: For cotton farmers in south Texas, a predatory flying cockroach from Asia could turn out to be a highly beneficial insect, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Weslaco, Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2008
News Release: Point Reyes National Seashore is currently accepting applications for the Harbor Seal Monitoring Program for the spring of 2008. Volunteer Harbor Seal Monitors observe harbor seals in and around Point Reyes National Seashore and collect data to contribute to a long-term monitoring program.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2008
News Release: To immediately address the high cost of energy, U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Carl Levin (D-MI), Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT), and Norm Coleman (R-MN) are urging the Department of Energy to temporarily suspend filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). In a letter to Secretary Samuel Bodman, the...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., expressed gratitude Tuesday that homeland security officials are now forbidding the forced drugging of immigration detainees without a court order after he raised questions about involuntary drugging during...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that on Jan. 15, 2008, it will monitor a special election in Jefferson Davis County, Miss., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON Alice S. Fisher, Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, and David Capp, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, announced today that John Doe 13, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON David S. Wong, a resident of Elk Grove Village, Ill., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to violating the Lacey Act for purchasing and re-selling a specific species of fish in the catfish family when he reasonably should have known that the fish had been imported illegally, the Justice Department announced.
By State News Post | Jan 14, 2008
The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jan 14, 2008
The US State Department published a two page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 14, 2008
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jan 14, 2008
The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 14, 2008
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jan 14, 2008
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jan 14, 2008
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
