News from March 2009
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: This year, a Texas-based company is expanding a timely automated irrigation system that saves water and energy and is based on Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-patented technology.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today lauded the Senate’s confirmation, by a vote of 92-5, of Mayor Ron Kirk to be United States Trade Representative. As President Obama’s top international trade official, Kirk will be responsible for opening new markets for American products and enforcing international trade rules at home and abroad.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: Dear Mr. Liddy: On March 14, 2009, you wrote to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that American International Group, Inc. (AIG) plans to pay $165 million in bonuses to AIG executives, despite the fact that these executives were partly responsible for the company’s near collapse. You state that, although...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), joined by colleagues, introduced legislation addressing companies using taxpayer funds to pay executive bonuses. The legislation, H.R. 1586, would tax the bonuses of highly paid individuals at a rate of 90 percent if their employer...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 18, 2009 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings’ (WA-04) open remarks, as prepared for delivery, at today’s full committee hearing on H.R. 31, the “Lumbee Recognition Act," and H.R. 1385, the “Thomasina E. Jordan Indian Tribes of Virginia Federal Recognition Act of 2009".
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa today made the following comment in response to numerous media inquiries regarding who included language to protect bailout company bonuses in the economic stimulus bill, now law. Grassley is ranking member of the Committee on Finance, with jurisdiction over tax policy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: On March 2, 2009, the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) began construction of the Mississippi Highway 6 crossing of the Natchez Trace Parkway. Hill Brothers Construction Company is the prime contractor and construction is expected to be completed near the end of 2011. When completed, this four-lane highway will pass under the Parkway at approximately MP 256.7.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: BOSTON, MA- Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry announced today that $2.1 million in federal funds will be awarded for nutrition programs to support senior citizens in Massachusetts under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The funds will benefit approximately one million seniors throughout...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: Lowell, MA. In 1909, before women had the vote, and before so many of the medical breakthroughs we take for granted today, Lowell’s women recognized the need for a new kind of care - home nursing - and made it happen. The vision and extraordinary work of these women lowered infant mortality significantly...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.), Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), all members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP) today applauded Committee passage of the Serve America Act (S. 277), legislation that...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2009
News Release: Today, March 18, Rocky Mountain National Park staff presented a $2,500 donation to the Quota Club Estes Park Medical Center (EPMC) Ambulance Fund in recognition of ongoing services provided by Dr. Scott Chew. Dr. Chew, who is an emergency room physician with the Estes Park Medical Center, has been the park’s Physician Advisor for twelve years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Adrian Dicker, a United Kingdom chartered accountant and former vice chairman and board member at a major international accounting firm, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with certain tax shelter promoters to defraud the United States in connection with tax shelter transactions involving ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Miami today convicted two physicians and two medical assistants in connection with a $5.3 million Medicare fraud scheme, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a settlement resolving allegations that the town of St. John, Ind., violated the Fair Housing Act when it denied a petition for a zoning variance based on the disability of a prospective resident.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A stock trader from Jupiter, Fla., pleaded guilty today to engaging in a market manipulation scheme involving several publicly traded companies, Acting Assistant Attorney General Rita M. Glavin of the Criminal Division announced.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 17, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the adoption of a final rule that delays until March 31, 2011, the effective date of new limits on the inclusion of trust preferred securities and other restricted core capital elements in tier 1 capital of bank holding companies (BHCs). This action is being taken in light of continued stress in financial markets and the efforts of BHCs to increase their overall capital levels.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 17, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the New York State Banking Department on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Société Générale, Paris, France; the bank's branch in New York, New York; the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and the New York State Banking Department.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 17, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Omni Financial Services, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 17, 2009
News Release: Atlanta – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Carolina Express Care P.A. of Knightdale, North Carolina, Dale Everett White and Howell Anderson Vaughan to recover more than $55,000 as restitution for their failure to fulfill their fiduciary duties to the Carolina Express Care P.A. 401(k) Plan and Trust.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 17, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on March 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
