News from November 2009

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2009
News Release: Mr. President, a noted psychologist once said: “To be mature means to face, and not evade, [a] crisis. " Our health care system is in crisis. This crisis has been decades in the making. And history has made clear that this crisis will not solve itself.

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2009
News Release: Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about his opposition to the motionto proceed to H.R. 3590, the legislative vehicle for the Patient Protection and Affordable CareAct of 2009. The text of Senator Grassley’s floor speech is below the comment.“This proposal is another big government spending...

By DOL Newswire | Nov 21, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement after the Senate voted to conclude debate and proceed to consideration of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Harkin is Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2009
News Release: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would create an independent, non-profit research institute called the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. This Institute would be charged with providing for research on what treatments work best for which patients and filling gaps in medical evidence,...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 "Today's guilty plea makes it clear that those who harm our brave men and women in uniform will be swiftly brought to justice and punished. I am confident that any others involved in Agent Rosas' tragic death will also be held ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court in Los Angeles has issued permanent injunctions barring a Torrance, Calif., tax preparer, Susan Guan and her company, SRN Financial Services Inc., from preparing tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The defendants agreed to the injunction orders. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court today issued a preliminary injunction barring Karen Liane Miller of Nashville, Tenn., from preparing federal income tax returns for others. The court order found that Miller promotes a tax defier scheme that claims large fraudulent tax refunds for customers. The order, entered ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – William Travis Brown, 39, of Sellersburg, Ind., was sentenced today to 20 years in prison and lifetime supervised release to follow his prison term for transporting and possessing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana Timothy M. Morrison and Indianapolis Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Resident Agent in Charge Daniel T. Dill.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2009
News Release: The Justice Department announced that U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson sentenced former Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Franklin Joseph Ryle Jr. to 15 years in prison today for depriving a man of his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable seizures by kidnapping the man and for using his firearm in relation to the crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former State Department official and his wife have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from their roles in a 30-year conspiracy to provide classified U.S. national defense information to the Republic of Cuba.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 20, 2009
News Release: Thank you, Katharine. Good morning everyone.

By Labor Gazette | Nov 20, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that approximately 2,900 workers from companies in seven states – Alabama, California, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – are eligible to apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA).
By DOT News Wire | Nov 20, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 20, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Nov. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Nov 20, 2009
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page proposed rule on Nov. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2009
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 20, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2009
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2009
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Nov. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2009
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.