News from November 2009
By DOL Newswire | Nov 9, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, has requested information about the Education Department’s efforts to influence pending legislation that would end private sector-based federal student loans. Kline’s request comes in response to multiple media ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2009
News Release: This season’s Perspectives series will begin at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center on Tuesday, November 10. Set for 7:00 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month from November through May, this year’s series presenters will offer windows into a wide range of Olympic National Park topics and adventures, from the recent discovery of a fossil sea star near Kalaloch to fish-counting snorkel trips and high-mountain archeology.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 9, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - With unemployment rate rising to 10.2 percent (crossing the double-digit threshold for the first time since 1983), representing a loss of 190,000 jobs,
By USDA Newswire | Nov 9, 2009
News Release: Cell-culture studies looking into how compounds in cinnamon extract affect brain cells are being conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists. The researchers have reported findings that the compounds studied prevented isolated brain cells from swelling, one of the many abnormal conditions resulting from traumatic brain injury and stroke due to impaired blood flow to the brain.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee held a hearing to address employment challenges that service members face when returning from a tour of duty. The hearing focused on the enforcement of the Uniformed Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2009
News Release: "My thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the family of Dr. Eduardo Caraveo, a Bureau of Prisons psychologist who was killed Thursday at Ft. Hood, as well as to all those who are grieving the loss of loved ones in this tragic event. No words can ease the pain they are feeling today. "Department of ...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after Speaker Pelosi and congressional Democrats rushed through their massive $1.3 trillion overhaul of America’s health care system.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2009
News Release: U.S.INTERIOR SECRETARY KEN SALAZAR LEADS GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY FOR PERMANENT FLIGHT 93 NATIONAL MEMORIAL.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2009
News Release: In Honor of our Nation's Veterans, Wind Cave NP will offer Free Tours on Veterans Day, Wednesday, November 11th, 2009.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - For the first time in America’s history, all Americans will have access to quality, affordable health care under updated health insurance reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives today. The legislation will cover 96 percent of Americans by 2015, while reducing the deficit by tens of billions of dollars over the next decade. The House approved the measure by a vote of 220 to 215.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2009
News Release: Secretary Salazar, Governor Rendell, Senator Casey and Others Break Ground on.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 7, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, spoke on the Floor of the House of Representatives this evening during debate on the Pelosi government takeover of health care. Drawing needed attention to the enormous power congressional Democrats are set to give to a new super-bureaucrat in Washington - the “Health Choices Commissioner" - Rep. Kline called on his colleagues to put aside their big government agenda.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 6, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary DHS Contact: 202-282-8010 WCO Press Office: +32 2 209 9441 Brussels—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and World Customs Organization (WCO) Secretary General Kunio Mikuriya today announced the preliminary results of Operation ATLAS—the largest multilateral operation in history targeting cash smugglers which took place from Oct. 26-30.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 6, 2009
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Brussels, Belgium—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today met with members of the European Parliament to discuss the importance of guarding against threats of terrorism while protecting privacy and civil liberties.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—Attorney General Eric Holder today welcomed the confirmation of Ignacia S. Moreno as the new Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. Moreno was confirmed by the U.S. Senate late yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has reached a settlement resolving a housing discrimination lawsuit in Tennessee concerning discrimination against families with children, the Justice Department announced. Under the consent decree, filed today in federal court in Chattanooga, Tenn., defendants Fountainbleau ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Robert Young, 57, a former captain in the U.S. Army, was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to steal approximately 10 million gallons of fuel from the U.S. Army in Iraq, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2009
News Release: A federal court in Milwaukee, Wis., today issued a preliminary injunction ordering a Milwaukee heating contractor and its owner and president to comply with federal employment tax payment requirements. The preliminary injunction order, signed by U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller, was entered against ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2009
News Release: Dustin Nix of Donaldson, Ark, was sentenced today in federal court in Fort Smith, Ark, on federal civil rights charges related to a conspiracy to drive a woman and her children from their home because they associated with African-Americans. Nix was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison, three years of post-incarceration supervision, a fine of $5,000, and a $200 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON—John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods Inc., and John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods of the Carolinas Inc., based in Atlanta, Ga., have agreed to pay a $350,000 civil penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
