News from December 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Two senior House members today called on the Justice Department to appeal a recent decision in federal district court which found a congressional ban on funding for ACORN to be a bill of attainder. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Lamar Smith (R-Texas) and House Oversight and...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2009
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.- The three-week-old Smart Grid Interoperability Panel's (SGIP's) governing board appointed Steve Widergren, a principal engineer at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, as plenary chair of the panel at its first meeting held Dec. 8-9. Additionally, the SGIP, a unique public-private...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate HELP Committee Senior Member Chris Dodd and Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus delivered the following remarks this evening on the floor of the U.S. Senate, committing to close the Medicare prescription drug coverage gap in the health reform...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 4284, legislation extending the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) and the Andean Trade Preferences Act (ATPA) programs that have played an important role in the nation’s trade and development efforts for decades. The legislation,...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2009
News Release: OVER TIME, HEALTH CARE COSTS GROW AT A MORE SUSTAINABLE RATE.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 14, 2009
News Release: SENATOR BARBARA BOXER... Clean Energy Jobs Grew at Three Times the Rate of the Rest of the California Economy Dec. 14, 2009 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) The press of Senate business keeps me from attending the climate talks in Copenhagen, and requires me to stay in Washington, DC, so I have ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 14, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 14, 2009 - Republicans on the House Natural Resources Committee today announced that they will hold a congressional forum on resolving the San Joaquin Valley water crisis in Fresno, California on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010. Further details including time, location and meeting format will be announced in the upcoming weeks.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 14, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that Carl O. Bauer is retiring from federal service and leaving the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) effective Feb. 28, 2010, following a distinguished four-year tenure as the laboratory's director, completing an impressive federal civilian and military career.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of The Department of the
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2009
News Release: In preparation for a major renovation of National Park Service administrative facilities at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, the Outer Banks Group Administrative offices and the Fort Raleigh NHS Visitor Center will be temporarily closed Dec. 14, 2009 through Dec. 17, 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2009
News Release: Regular boat tours to the USS Arizona Memorial will not be operating on the following dates.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) commended inclusion, in omnibus appropriations legislation passed today by a vote of 57-35, of a provision to remove one of the primary obstacles to access for U.S. agricultural products to Cuba. Senator Baucus introduced legislation...
By Commerce News Now | Dec 12, 2009
News Release: His Royal Highness Crown Prince Fréderik, Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rásmussen, Minister for Trade Ewa Björling, Adam Holm, visiting dignitaries, ladies and gentlemen: It is an honor to be here to participate in the opening of this important trade event.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As part of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) ongoing investigation into the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now’s (ACORN) lobbying and election activities, the Delaware State Public Integrity Commission responded...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the launch of a virtual job fair at cyberjobfair * to recruit cybersecurity experts—capitalizing on DHS’ recently acquired authority to recruit and hire up to 1,000 cybersecurity professionals across the Department over the next three years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Detroit-area residents Baskaran Thangarasan, Sandeep Aggarwal and Wayne Smith pleaded guilty this week for their roles in connection with several Detroit-area health care fraud schemes, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2009
News Release: Robert Jeffery, 55, a former master chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy, was sentenced today to four years in prison for his participation in a scheme to steal approximately 10 million gallons of fuel from the U.S. Army in Iraq, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2009
News Release: A ninth individual pleaded guilty today to illegally accessing numerous confidential passport application files, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced. Debra Sue Brown, 47, of Oxon Hill, Md., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola in the District of Columbia to a one-count criminal information charging her with unauthorized computer access. Brown is scheduled to be sentenced on Mar. 23, 2010.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 11, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between First Mariner Bancorp, Baltimore, Maryland a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 11, 2009
News Release: Hello everyone. We’re all here this week for the same reason. The world is facing a climate crisis that demands unified international action, and each of us is trying to do our part. At this conference, you'll hear scientists describe the grave dangers in store for the world’s environment and its people ...
