News from December 2010
By State Newswire | Dec 22, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released a statement today on the United States imposing travel sanctions against members of the Gbagbo administration in Cote d’ Iviore for failing to recognize the outcome of the November 28 election. Cote d’Ivoire’s independent electoral commission and the United Nations have certified that Alassane Ouattara won the run-off presidential election.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 22, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a statement from Administrator Lisa Jackson detailing the actions the Agency is taking to address the issue of chromium-6, a cancer-causing toxic chemical, in drinking water. Yesterday Senators Barbara Boxer, Chairman of ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa today issued the following statement of support for a revised version of S. 372, The Whistleblower Protection Act...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 22, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman-designate of the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today welcoming new Republican members to the panel and announcing the selection of subcommittee chairs for the 112th Congress...
By State Newswire | Dec 22, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today praised the Senate’s passage of the resolution of ratification for the U.S.-Russia “New START" Treaty to further reduce strategic nuclear arms.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Longtime congressional staffer David Pomerantz will be the new Democratic Staff Director of the House Appropriations Committee.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C. — Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today highlighted the Department's 2010 accomplishments in an address to employees - emphasizing the major steps the Department has taken this ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with Lucasfilm Ltd. that prevents it from entering into agreements restraining employee recruitment. The department said that the agreement between Lucasfilm and Pixar eliminated important forms of competition to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — A former managing executive of a construction company that had substantial business at Fort Carson, a U.S. Army installation in Colorado Springs, Colo., pleaded guilty to providing an illegal gratuity to a contracting officer, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON– A Harris County, Texas, commissioner and a Houston-based real estate developer have been charged with bribery conspiracy in an indictment returned yesterday by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Texas, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The national president and three members of the American Outlaw Association (Outlaws) motorcycle gang have been found guilty of participating in a violent criminal organization by a federal jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: The federal bank regulatory agencies today announced the annual adjustment to the asset-size thresholds used to define small bank, small savings association, intermediate small bank and intermediate small savings association under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) regulations. The annual adjustments for banks are required by the CRA rules.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the following enforcement actions: City National Bancshares Corporation (50 KB PDF), Newark, New Jersey Written Agreement dated Dec. 14, 2010 Community Shores Bank Corporation (46 KB PDF), Muskegon, Michigan Written Agreement dated Dec. 16, 2010 Search Federal Reserve enforcement actions
By Fed Newswire | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: The Federal Open Market Committee has authorized an extension through Aug. 1, 2011, of its temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap arrangements with the Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, and the Swiss National Bank. The swap arrangements, established in May 2010, had been authorized through January 2011.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: On time and under budget, Census shows growth of U.S. population to 308,745,538 U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke joined Acting Deputy Secretary Rebecca Blank and Census Bureau Director Robert Groves at the National Press Club today to unveil the official 2010 Census population counts – 10 days before the statutory deadline of Dec. 31. The nationwide population as of April 1, 2010 was 308,745,538. Locke also announced a final 2010 Census savings of $1.87 billion.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division is requesting public comments on its preliminary interpretations of a new provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act that requires employers to provide nursing mothers with reasonable break time and a private space for expressing breast ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a $543,705 National Emergency Grant supplemental award to Missouri to continue re-employment services to about 400 civilian defense workers affected by 2005 Base Realignment and Closure actions.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 250 citations, orders and safeguards during special impact inspections conducted at 12 coal and 10 metal/nonmetal mine operations last month.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Officials at seven of the U.S. Department of Labor’s agencies will host live Web chats and, in one case, a conference call to discuss their respective regulatory agendas during the first week of January 2011. These events are open to the public and members of the press. The Labor Department’s entire regulatory agenda was published in the Dec. 20 issue of the Federal Register.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today announced the appointments of five new members to the 2011 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans – known as the ERISA Advisory Council. She also announced the appointment of the incoming chair and vice chair of the council.
