News from February 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee Ranking Member Patrick McHenry (R-NC) expressed significant opposition to the Obama Administration’s reported plan to politicize the nonpartisan census process.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2009
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md.-The bacterium behind one of mankind's deadliest scourges, tuberculosis, is helping researchers at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) move closer to answering the decades-old question of what controls the switching on and off of genes that carry out all of life's functions.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2009
News Release: Black History Month 2009. New York, NY - Celebrate Black History Month with the National Park Service from Feb 17th to Feb 21st. The theme of Returning to the Roots: Going Green will surround the workshops and programs throughout the week. Guided by the spirit of Sankofa, a West African Akan concept...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2009
News Release: The PBS is looking for items having to do with America's National Parks in a lead up to the Fall 2009 debut of Ken Burn's new documentary series, The National Parks: America's Best Idea. PBS's hit series History Detectives is issuing a call for any National Park-related items with historical significance.
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today spoke out against Pakistan's release of nuclear proliferator A.Q. Khan from house arrest...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2009
News Release: The Department of Labor reported this morning that the U.S. economy shed 598,000 jobs in the month of January, the largest single-month total since 1974, bringing the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent. In response to these staggering figures, the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s top Republican, Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), issued the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2009
News Release: Acting Commissioner of Reclamation J. William McDonald today announced the award of a $1.98 million contract to KCorp Technology Services, Inc. (KTS) to provide a range of operation and maintenance support services for Reclamation's Yuma Desalting Plant (YDP) and associated facilities.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 6, 2009
News Release: A faster method for detecting ratoon stunting disease (RSD)-the most important disease affecting sugarcane production worldwide-has been developed by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and cooperators.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Patriot Coal Corporation, one of the largest coal mining companies in the United States, has agreed to pay a $6.5 million civil penalty to settle violations of the Clean Water Act, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the state of West Virginia announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Raul Cortes-Meza, 21, aka "Oscar", a Mexican national, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Atlanta to sex trafficking of a minor from Mexico, Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias for the Northern District of Georgia announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A government contractor and former employee of the U.S. Department of the Treasury was sentenced in Washington today in connection with a bribery scheme involving contracts at the U.S. Tax Court in the District of Columbia, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Minnesota man was arrested today on charges related to an alleged Ponzi scheme involving commodity pools, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin for the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Frank J. Magill for the District of Minnesota announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former employee at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti pleaded guilty today to one count of theft for stealing more than $800,000 from the U.S. Department of State, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two men have been arrested and charged in an indictment unsealed today with crimes related to sex trafficking, Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas Jane W. Duke announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court in Los Angeles invalidated an abusive tax shelter scheme engaged in by prominent real estate investors James Thomas and Edward Fox, the Justice Department announced today. U.S. District Judge John F. Walter also imposed the maximum penalty - forty percent - allowed by the tax code against them.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Memphis, Tenn., today found Arthur Sease IV, a former Memphis Police Department officer, guilty on forty-four counts of civil rights, narcotics, robbery and firearms offenses, Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Lawrence J. Laurenzi for the Western District of Tennessee announced.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: Data will mark 1st official measure of unemployment rate facing Americans with disabilities WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor will, for the first time, release employment and unemployment data on people with disabilities on Friday, Feb. 6. This information will assist the nation in understanding ...
By Labor Gazette | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Jan. 31, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 626,000, an increase of 35,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 591,000. The 4-week moving average was 582,250, an increase of 39,000 from the previous week's revised average of 543,250.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $22 million grant to assist approximately 7,400 workers affected by financial industry layoffs in the New York, Connecticut and New Jersey Tri-State area.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that all former Connecticut Aircraft Nuclear Engine Laboratory (CANEL) workers have now been added to the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act's (EEOICPA) Special Exposure Cohort (SEC). The EEOICPA provides compensation and medical benefits to employees who became ill as a result of working in the nuclear weapons industry. Survivors of qualified employees may also be entitled to benefits.
