News from January 2010
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 27, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement following passage of H.R. 3726, a bill to establish the Castle Nugent Historic Site on St. Croix in the Virgin Islands.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) issued the following statement in response President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address this evening...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced today the inaugural “ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit" to take place March 1-3, 2010 at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in Washington, DC. The event, hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following today’s hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform examining the government’s role in bailing out AIG counterparties and hiding its details from the American public, Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) made public a document (Schedule A) that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) wanted kept confidential by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) until 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) issued the following statement tonight on President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Baucus applauded the President’s commitment to creating jobs, controlling the deficit and passing health care reform legislation.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: Bonus bids at the Bureau of Land Management's January 26 oil and gas lease sale in Billings totaled $8,589,410.Four companies jointly bid $912,100 for leasing rights on a 1,303-acre parcel in McKenzie County, N.D. The four were Yates Petroleum Corp., Yates Drilling Co., ABO Petroleum Corp., and Myco...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Senators Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and George LeMieux (R-Fla.), today lauded President Obama for his signature of legislation to help Americans in Haiti...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: In order to recognize the city of Lowell’s continual progress, Lowell Heritage Partnership and Lowell National Historical Park are seeking nominations from the community for acknowledging the contributions of organizations or individuals in the areas of historic preservation and cultural heritage. Park...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 27, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following floor statement on H.R. 3726, the Castle Nugent Historic Site Act, which creates a new $50 million park in St. Croix in the Virgin Islands.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: Pistachios, almonds and other popular tree nuts might someday be routinely sprayed with a yeast called Pichia anomala. Laboratory and field studies by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant physiologist Sui-Sheng (Sylvia) Hua have shown that the yeast competes successfully for nutrients-and space to grow-that might otherwise be used by an unwanted mold, Aspergillus flavus.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. Harkin chairs the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, as well as the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), along with Senators Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and George LeMieux (R-Fla.), hailed the Senate passage of legislation to provide $25 million in additional funding for...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 26, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact 202-282-8010 Transcript Moderator: Good afternoon. Thank you all for joining us. Secretary Napolitano is going to make some remarks, and then we will take some questions. I will moderate and call on the questioners. And we have about 25 minutes or so. So, fire away.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2010
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that a detainee has been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the Government of Switzerland for resettlement in Switzerland. The Swiss Government, with the support of the Canton of Geneva, accepted an Uzbek national for resettlement and his transfer was carried out according to arrangements between the governments of the United States and Switzerland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Haroon Amin of Upland, Calif., pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — An Oklahoma man pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to solicit a kickback in connection with the award of a private security services subcontract to protect U.S. government personnel and contractors in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney of the Antitrust Division and U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 26, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Riverside Banking Company, Fort Pierce, Florida, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 26, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Northfield Bancshares, Inc., a registered bank holding company, Community Resource Bank, a state member bank, both of Northfield, Minnesota, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 26, 2010
News Release: Ford Motor Company today announced that it will produce the more-fuel-efficient, next-generation Ford Explorer SUV at its Chicago Assembly Plant beginning in the fourth quarter of this year, creating approximately 1,200 new jobs to staff a second production shift and increase production at its Chicago Stamping Plant. Part of the new investment was enabled through a partnership with a Department of Energy advanced technology grant and loan program.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 26, 2010
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today met with Russia’s Minister of Economic Development Ms. Elvira Nabiullina at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass. The two officials, who previously met at the July 2009 Moscow Summit, held their first meeting in their capacities as co-chairs of the Business Development and Economic Relations Working Group under the U.S.-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission.
