News from April 2010
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Republicans, led by Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA), sent a letter today to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro requesting that the SEC provide the Committee with documents and information “regarding any...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) commented today following the announcement that United Healthcare and other insurance companies will begin allowing college students who graduate this year to remain on their parents’ health care plans now, before the health care reform law requires.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today applauded the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) effort to reduce the amount of salt consumed by Americans. The effort is based on recommendations made in a report released today...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) commented today on Senate approval of the nomination of Dr. Lael Brainard to be Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs. From Chairman Baucus...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Students and early career professionals can gain hands-on experience in areas related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) by participating in the Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS) program.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, MONT. - On May 11, 1910, President William Howard Taft signed the bill establishing Glacier National Park as our 10th national park. As Glacier National Park commemorates its first 100 years, the public is invited to the park’s rededication event on Tuesday, May 11, 2010, at 10:30...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Officials at Glacier National Park today announced that investigations are now complete following the death of Brian Curtis Wright, 37, of East Glacier and Whitefish, Montana, whose body was recovered Thursday, April 1, 2010, on the northeast face of Peak 6996 (elev. 6,996 ft.) near Mount Shields (elev. 7,131 ft.) in the Marias Pass area of Glacier National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today discussed the success of the TARP program in stabilizing our economy during the financial crisis and the status of efforts to repay losses from the TARP program with Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Area youth from Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco, will plant a garden of native plant species in San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park on May 8, 2010 as part of the National Park Foundation’s First Bloom program. The youth will begin planting the Aquatic Park garden at 10am, and then break for awards at 11:15am. First Bloom gives students firsthand experience in national parks, and teaches them about native and invasive plant species.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park is starting four American Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects to improve hiker parking areas and resurface two roads in the Park. The $12.2 million for these projects brings total Recovery Act funding for the Smokies to $77.5 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: The Epistle of James says: “See how great a forest a little fire kindles!".
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement on Defense Secretary Gates’ speech regarding President Obama’s export control policy review.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Kent Conrad (D-ND) are urging the Senate to act on legislation they introduced today to strengthen America’s energy independence and create jobs through the production of domestically produced biofuels.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today visited Oklahoma City to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing and deliver remarks about the Department’s efforts to protect against evolving threats of terrorism and build resilient communities as part of the Oklahoma City National Memorial Annual Remembrance Ceremony. Her prepared remarks are available here.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2010
News Release: The United States has filed a civil suit on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in U.S. District Court in the Middle District of Florida, against Franck’s Compounding Lab Inc., dba Franck’s Lab, a compounding pharmacy located in Ocala, Fla. The government alleges that Franck’s has been introducing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has sued an Ohio man and his company, seeking to bar them from promoting a scheme that allegedly helps customers claim improper theft loss tax deductions, the Justice Department announced today. The suit also seeks to bar the defendants from preparing tax returns for others.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2010
News Release: Anthony G. Merlo, a resident of Portsmouth, N.H., was sentenced to 51 months of imprisonment for conspiring to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2010
News Release: Charles Paul Edward Jumet of Fluvanna County, Va., was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for paying bribes to former Panamanian government officials to secure maritime contracts, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and for making a false statement to federal agents. In addition ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON—Westward Seafoods Inc., the operator of a seafood processing plant in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, will pay a $570,000 civil penalty as part of a settlement agreement to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 19, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between First National Financial Services, Inc., Elk River, Minnesota, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
