News from October 2008
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa today praised final passage and the signing into law of legislation he co-authored to shield millions of taxpayers from the Alternative Minimum Tax this year, provide tax relief for Midwestern disaster recovery, extend tax incentives for wind energy and other renewable sources, and extend tax relief for families and teachers.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today said that Congress has “done its job" as the House of Representatives approved the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 - a financial rescue plan that will allow the U.S.Treasury to purchase bad assets threatening the...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: The 30th anniversary of the designation of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River will be commemorated on November 8 with a symposium at Central House Family Resort in Beach Lake, PA co-sponsored by the National Park Service (NPS) and Upper Delaware Council (UDC). Reservations are requested by October 31.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont), RankingMember Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Ranking Member Jim McCrery (R-La) today welcomed passage oflegislation that renews the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP)...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont), Ranking Member Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Ranking Member Jim McCrery (R-La) today welcomed passage of legislation that renews the Generalized System of Preferences...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: Dietary calcium supplements do not reduce the risk of hip fracture-and that's just one of the new nutrition and health findings noted in the most recent issue of the Agricultural Research Service's "Food and Nutrition Research Briefs" and its Spanish-language edition, Informe de investigaciones de alimentos y nutrición.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: Wind Cave National Park, S.D. - Dan Roddy, Wind Cave National Park’s biologist, was recently presented the National Park Service’s Midwest Region Natural Resource Management Award. This award is given annually to the employee who made the most significant contribution in the field of natural resource management.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: Upper Delaware EXPO to Celebrate 30th Anniversary of Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives today voted in overwhelming bipartisan support of legislation to extend unemployment benefits to millions of workers who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own and cannot find work. The bill, H.R. 6867, was introduced in September by House Ways...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following remarks regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) failure to regulate perchlorate, a toxic component of rocket fuel that contaminates sites in at least 35 states...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC -Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) issued the following statement during debate on H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which passed with a bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: Letters of support for Baucus tax extenders legislation.
By State Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC -- Congressman Howard L. Berman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee today issued the following comment on the U.S. Senate’s failure to pass his Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act (H.R. 7112).
By DOL Newswire | Oct 3, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Today’s report showed a loss of 159,000 jobs, the ninth consecutive month of job losses. The number of unemployed Americans rose to 9.5 million, and the number of workers unemployed for over six months rose to 2 million (an increase of 728,000 over the past year). Anthony Coley, spokesman for Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Rebecca Tyree, Roosevelt Kyle, COA Financial Group LLC and Eagle Financial Services Barred from Preparing Tax Returns for Others WASHINGTON – A federal court in San Diego has permanently barred COA Financial ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – A California woman was sentenced today to 37 months in prison in connection with a $15 million scheme to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor of the District of Columbia announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Allegedly Inflated Customers Deductions; Loss to Treasury Exceeding $300,000 WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred a Newman, Calif., woman from preparing federal income tax returns for others, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Helio Castroneves, a U.S. resident and two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, was indicted by a grand jury today on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States of income taxes and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON - Jorge De Castro Font, 45, a senator in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, was indicted today by a grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico for engaging in a scheme that deprived the people ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 2, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Grace Chung Becker, and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, Sheldon J. Sperling, announced today that Jarrod Anthony Yates, a former Sequoyah County, Okla., corrections officer, pleaded guilty to violating the civil rights of an arrestee.
