News published on Federal Newswire in March 2009

News from March 2009


News Release: U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee Ranking Member Susan Collins and Senator Olympia Snowe today announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has informed them that it will correct the way in which it determines the minimum amount of funding provided to Maine and other States under the...



Hastings Praises Passage of FLAME Act

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 2009 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Federal Land Assistance, Management and Enhancement Act (FLAME Act, H.R. 1404).


Levin, Grassley Release GAO Report on Stock Clearing

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Carl Levin, D-Mich., Chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Finance, released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report providing an overview of how U.S. stock trades are cleared and settled, the role played by U.S. stock clearing companies, and the oversight provided by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).


News Release: WASHINGTON — A Newton, Conn., resident who was involved in operating three businesses in Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Department of Justice announced today.


News Release: WASHINGTON —Sikorsky Aircraft Company, a division of United Technologies Corporation, has agreed to pay the United States $2,941,000 to resolve fraud allegations in connection with its contract for the manufacture of Black Hawk helicopters for the Army, the Justice Department announced today.


News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with the City of Portsmouth, Va., that, if approved by the court, will resolve the Department’s complaint that the City of Portsmouth engaged in a pattern or practice of employment discrimination against African Americans in its hiring of entry-level firefighters, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII).


Statement of U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on GAO investigation regarding past Wage and Hour Division enforcement

News Release: WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement: "I take the issues raised by the Government Accountability Office investigation regarding past Wage and Hour Division enforcement very seriously.


U.S. Labor Department sues former NFL player and others in bankruptcy court to recover pension assets

News Release: Newport News, Virginia — The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Newport News, alleging that former National Football League (NFL) player Michael Vick and others violated federal employee benefits law by making a series of prohibited transfers from a pension plan ...


The US Energy Department published a six page rule on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published an eight page rule on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a five page rule on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a one page notice on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a three page proposed rule on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a one page notice on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on March 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.