News published on Federal Newswire in June 2008

News Release: Today’s combined efforts of eleven ground teams and four aircraft failed to yield any new clues on the location of missing backpackers Abby Flantz and Erica Nelson. The teams were tasked with more thoroughly investigating specific segments within the search area, those sections that search managers feel...

Baucus Condemns Senate’s Second Refusal to Consider Tax Relief

News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today commented on the second consecutive Senate failure to invoke cloture to proceed to H.R. 6049, a move that would have opened the floor to debate of the legislation. Senator Baucus introduced a substitute bill last week that...

Grassley: Cloture Vote on House Tax Extenders Bill is Groundhog Day

News Release: Over the past few years anyone who has observed the workings of Congress has probably discovered that we spend lots of time every year wrestling over what are called the tax extenders. Popular provisions in the Internal Revenue Code are set to expire every year or two unless Congress acts. In the past...

Prescribed Burn Postponed

News Release: Pinnacles National Monument’s plan to burn 150 acres along the newly acquired bottomlands has been delayed because wildfire activity in the Central Coast and Northern California is pulling much needed fire resources from throughout the state. "While we have all put large amounts of effort to make this...

As Pickens Warns of Rapidly Rising Oil Costs and Foreign Imports, American Public Calls For Deep Sea Exploration

By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2008

News Release: WASHINGTON - On a day when legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens warned the Senate that the price of oil and the rate of foreign imports will continue to rise unless we take immediate action, a new poll released today has found that an overwhelmingly majority of Americans support deep sea exploration to increase American energy production.

MONUMENT TO OPEN FOLLOWING RESTORATION PROVIDED BY FIRST FLIGHT FOUNDATION (Manteo)

News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that the renovation of the monument at Wright Brothers National Memorial has been completed thanks to the outstanding efforts of the First Flight Foundation, a key partner of the National Park Service (NPS) at the National Memorial. To celebrate the completion...

Baucus, Grassley Military Tax Relief Package Becomes Law

News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today hailed the signing of the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act (HEART) into law. The bill will provide more than $1.2 billion dollars in tax relief to benefit America’s veterans...

Baucus Hearing Statement on Federal Budget Deficits

News Release: The Chicago columnist Sydney J. Harris once wrote: “An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.".

Second Truck Driver Sentenced to Over 12 Years in Federal Prison for Delivering Drugs in Marijuana and Cocaine Conspiracy

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2008

News Release: JUN 17 -- Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Robert May, also known as “Chico," age 49 of Hazzard, Kentucky, today to 151 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine and over 1000 kilograms of marijuana, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein.

MONUMENT TO OPEN FOLLOWING RESTORATION PROVIDED BY FIRST FLIGHT FOUNDATION (Manteo)

News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that the renovation of the monument at Wright Brothers National Memorial has been completed thanks to the outstanding efforts of the First Flight Foundation, a key partner of the National Park Service (NPS) at the National Memorial. To celebrate the completion...

Glomalin is Key to Locking up Soil Carbon

By USDA Newswire | Jun 17, 2008

News Release: A soil constituent known as glomalin provides a secure vault for the world's soil carbon. That's according to Kristine Nichols, a microbiologist at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory in Mandan, N.D.

AIPAC supports Chairman’s Mark of Iran Sanctions Legislation

News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today unveiled an original Chairman’s Mark of legislation strengthening U.S. sanctions on Iran, for consideration by the full Committee this week. The markup will take place at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June.

Ways And Means to Consider AMT Relief Bill

News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) introduced H.R. 6275, the Alternative Minimum Tax Relief Act of 2008, today to protect millions of middle-class families from the alternative minimum tax (AMT) this year. Chairman Rangel’s bill would responsibly provide tax relief...

Smokies Launches Global Climate Educational Initiative

News Release: On Monday, June 16 Great Smoky Mountains National Park launched a new "Do Your Part!" initiative aimed at educating visitors about measures that they can take, in the park and at home, to reduce their contributions to global warming. Visitors to the park’s visitor centers and other facilities will find information posted with suggestions on how they can minimize their carbon footprint during their visit as well as when they return home.

Deportation Order Upheld Against Wisconsin Man Who Participated in 1943 Nazi Massacre of 8,000 Jews

News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, June 16, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) affirmed an order directing the removal of Josias Kumpf, 83, due to his participation in Nazi-sponsored crimes of persecution during World War II, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division announced today.

German-Based Operator of Ship and Chief Engineer Plead Guilty to Falsifying Records

News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, June 16, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 PHILADELPHIA - Reederei Karl Schlueter, an operator for GmbH & Co. KG (RKS), a ship management company, and Chief Engineer Nikola Ilijic, an officer on a ship operated by RKS, pleaded guilty today to a charge ...

Businessman Sentenced for Supplying Indian Government with Controlled Technology

News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, June 16, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AG (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON — Parthasarathy Sudarshan, 47, the owner of an international electronics business, was sentenced today in the District of Columbia to 35 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to illegally export controlled electronic components to government entities in India that participate in the development of ballistic missiles, space launch vehicles, and fighter jets.

Oklahoma-Based Pipeline Company to Pay $5.3 Million for Petroleum Discharges