News from December 2009
By DOL Newswire | Dec 4, 2009
News Release: The U.S. Department of Labor announced this morning that 11,000 jobs were lost in November, while the national unemployment rate ticked downward slightly to 10 percent. Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., December 4, 2009 - Water and Power Subcommittee Ranking Member Tom McClintock (R-CA) released the following statement today regarding Subcommittee Chairwoman Grace Napolitano’s (D-CA) recentannouncement to hold a Southern California field hearing on the state’s water crisis.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2009
News Release: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is fiscally responsible legislation. The bill reduces the federal deficit even while it significantly increases health insurance coverage among Americans. Despite rumors to the contrary, health care reform is fully paid for and does not add to the federal...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the selection of three new projects with a value of $3.18 billion to accelerate the development of advanced coal technologies with carbon capture and storage at commercial-scale. Secretary Chu made today's announcement on a conference...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2009
News Release: Experts and economists of every political stripe agree, preserving America's long-term economic security means reforming the way we provide and pay for health care. Health care spending makes up one-sixth of the U.S. economy today and future generations can expect the burden of insurmountable debt if we fail to act.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today issued the following statement on the announcement that the United Nations will investigate leaked e-mails that call into the question the validity of conclusions reached in the U.N.’s IPCC assessment, which the Obama Administration has relied on to shape and validate its Climate Change public policy agenda...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2009
News Release: Obey Statement. "The unemployment numbers. are better than expected" but "It isn't Christmas yet on the job front".
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued the following statement on the upcoming third anniversary of the signing of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement this Sunday, November 22...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano delivered remarks last night at the America-Israel Friendship League’s “Partners for Democracy Award Dinner” in New York City underscoring the Department’s strong partnerships with Israel and firm commitment to countering terrorism and violent extremism both abroad and within the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano met with private sector leaders in the real estate, professional sports, media and financial industries during her visit to New York City this week to discuss the importance of protecting the nation's critical infrastructure and the shared responsibility of building a national culture of readiness and resiliency.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: Two Bulgarian nationals have been sentenced in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia for their roles as money launderers for a transnational criminal group based in Eastern Europe, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden announced today that he will leave the Department on February 5, 2010 to return to private practice. Prior to joining the Department as Deputy Attorney General in March, Ogden chaired the Obama Administration’s transition team for the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of the Justice Department’s year-long commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan met today with teen leaders, their parents and program directors from the Robert Wood Johnson ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cardale Leon Bates of Birmingham, Ala., was sentenced to 57 months in prison today by U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Judge Coogler also ordered Bates to3 years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $56,946 in restitution.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the issuance of a combined Consent Order of Prohibition and Order of Assessment of a Civil Money Penalty against Francesco Rusciano, a former institution-affiliated party of UBS AG, Zurich, Switzerland. The consent order resolved administrative charges ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Nov. 28, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 457,000, a decrease of 5,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 462,000. The 4-week moving average was 481,250, a decrease of 14,250 from the previous week's revised average of 495,500.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) today announced a multifaceted, comprehensive strategy to end new cases of black lung among the nation's coal miners. Black lung is a collection of debilitating and potentially fatal diseases from respirable ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: Online job search sites invited to submit products to Web 2.0 platform WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the kickoff of the first phase of the "Tools for America's Job Seekers Challenge." The challenge will connect workers with online career resources, and offer businesses and ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 3, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a grant of up to $831,423 to assist approximately 75 workers affected by layoffs at Hampton Affiliates' Tillamook Lumber in Tillamook, Ore.
By State News Post | Dec 3, 2009
The US State Department published a two page notice on Dec. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
