News from May 2009
By US DOT Newswire | May 21, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following remarks on the House Energy and Commerce Committee's passage of H.R. 2454, "The American Clean Energy and Security Act."
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) joined today with House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and Education & Labor Committee Chairman Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA) in introducing legislation to reauthorize the District of Columbia’s...
By USDA Newswire | May 21, 2009
News Release: Today, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to review proposals to implement low carbon fuel standards and efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on state and federal levels.
By US DOT Newswire | May 21, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following remarks regarding a letter from the Obama Administration urging enactment of legislation to amend the Clean Water Act to clarify the scope of the Act's protections in response to recent Supreme Court decisions, and outlining principles for that legislation.
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-NY) and Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) jointly agreed to postpone a hearing on the future of the V-22 Osprey. This decision came as the result of a failure by the Department of Defense to release information gathered by the Marine Corps in response to requests by the committee.
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C.
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 “U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel to Detroit and Ottawa on May 26-27 to tour Northern border operations and meet with Canadian Minister of Public Safety Peter Van Loan; Minister of Citizenship, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2009
News Release: Attorney General Holder and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the creation of a new interagency effort, the Health Care Fraud Prevention and Enforcement Action Team (HEAT), to combat Medicare fraud. Holder and Sebelius also announced the expansion of Strike Force team operations to Detroit and Houston. Medicare Fraud Strike Forces, currently in operation in South Florida and Los Angeles, fight Medicare fraud on a targeted local level.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2009
News Release: Christopher Handley, 39, of Glenwood, Iowa, pleaded guilty today in Des Moines, Iowa, to possessing obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children and mailing obscene material.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2009
News Release: The Department announced today a settlement of a lawsuit alleging discrimination on the basis of disability in the design and construction of four multifamily housing complexes in the Spokane, Wash., area in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act.
By Fed Newswire | May 20, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the New York State Banking Department on Wednesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Philippine National Bank, Pasay City, Philippines; the bank’s branch in New York, New York; the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; and the New York State Banking Department.
By Fed Newswire | May 20, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on April 28-29, 2009. A summary of economic projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Reserve Bank presidents for the April 28-29, 2009 meeting is also included as an addendum to these minutes.
By Fed Newswire | May 20, 2009
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the approval of final amendments to Regulation D (Reserve Requirements of Depository Institutions) to liberalize the types of transfers consumers can make from savings deposits and to make it easier for community banks that use correspondent banks to receive interest on excess balances held at Federal Reserve Banks.
By Commerce News Now | May 20, 2009
News Release: Thank you for the kind words, Roger. I’m delighted to have this opportunity to participate in the International Pow Wow in Miami Beach.
By Labor Gazette | May 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), in an effort to crack down on fraudulent trainers, is strengthening the integrity of its 36-year-old Outreach Training Program by improving how trainers become authorized to teach and ensuring these trainers are in compliance with OSHA program guidelines.
By Labor Gazette | May 20, 2009
News Release: Fargo, North Dakota – A free health law compliance assistance seminar for employers, plan fiduciaries and plan services providers, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) and the North Dakota Department of Insurance, will take place June 3 and 4 at the Fargo Doublewood Inn & Conference Center at 3333-13th Ave. S.
By DOT News Wire | May 20, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 20, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | May 20, 2009
The US State Department published a one page notice on May 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 20, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
