News from January 2010
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC -Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement on Massachusetts voters’ referendum on the Democrats’ government takeover of health care in the historic election of Republican Scott Brown in one of the most liberal states in the nation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) joined Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (D-SC) and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) in announcing their intent to introduce legislation that would allow individuals who make charitable...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2010
News Release: Dear Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Brennan...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2010
News Release: On Saturday, January 30th at 2pm, join Brian Haggerty and Dr. Susan Mazer, from UC Santa Barbara, as they present ‘Planting the Seeds for Citizen Scientists’. This program shows how you can join other citizen scientists nationwide in observing the effects of climate change on plants and animals and providing...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2010
News Release: The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House H-232, U.S. Capitol Washington, DC 20515.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2010
News Release: end of the Olmert prime ministry. And thanks to the leadership of the Palestinian Authority’s excellent prime minister, Salaam Fayyad, West Bank security has improved dramatically and the region’s economy responded last year with significant economic growth for the first time since the onset of the Second Intifada a decade ago.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Congressional Democrats today sent a list of several candidates whom they are recommending to the President for appointment as the next Comptroller General. Their letter derails attempts to develop a slate of candidates that should have been agreed to on a bipartisan basis by the statutory Commission charged with making this recommendation to the President.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2010
News Release: All roads within Yosemite National Park, including from Yosemite West to Wawona on Highway 41 (Wawona Road), are now open. The Badger Pass Road and the Badger Pass Ski Area are also open.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2010
News Release: Almost all roads leading into Yosemite National Park have reopened after being closed due to snow, ice, and fallen trees. Highways 120 (Big Oak Flat Road) and 140 (El Portal Road) were reopened at 8:00 a.m. this morning. Highway 41 (Wawona Road) is also open from Yosemite Valley to Chinquapin but remains closed south of Yosemite West to Wawona due to fallen trees.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2010
News Release: Coronado Cave Open. Coronado cave and cave trail is now open seven days a week from dawn to dusk. Access the trail via the new trailhead, approximately 1800 feet west of the visitor center on Montezuma Canyon Rd. Heavy equipment will be operating in the wash and on the road west of the visitor center...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Talks Build on Ministerial Consensus Reached Yesterday in Spain to Coordinate on Urgent Enhancement of International Aviation Security Standards Geneva—Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today met ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano this week designated 11 new countries as eligible to participate in the H-2A and H-2B nonimmigrant visa programs, which allow U.S. employers to bring foreign nationals to the United States to fill temporary or seasonal jobs for which U.S. workers are not available.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: Today at the National Sheriffs’ Association Winter Conference, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice will set aside $11 million from settlements with companies that produced Zylon vests to help purchase approximately 26,000 additional bullet-resistant vests through the Bulletproof Vest Partnership (BVP) Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Daniel Earl Danforth of Minden, La., was convicted yesterday by a jury in Shreveport, La., of a civil rights conspiracy, use of fire in the commission of a federal felony, and obstruction of justice in connection with a cross-burning near the home of an interracial couple in Athens, La., the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: Two Algerian detainees, Hasan Zemiri and Adil Hadi al Jazairi Bin Hamlili, have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the custody and control of the Government of Algeria.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: James Wilbur Fondren Jr. was sentenced today to 36 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, for charges involving espionage and making false statements to the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that it will monitor the Jan. 23, 2010, special municipal election in the city of Hondo, Texas, to ensure compliance with the anti-discrimination and minority language requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Act prohibits discrimination in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today against Dean Foods Company challenging its April 2009 acquisition of Foremost Farms USA’s Consumer Products Division. The department said that the merger eliminates substantial competition between the two companies in the sale of milk to schools, grocery stores, convenience stores and other retailers in Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Stephen Schultz entered a guilty plea in federal district court in Miami to 12 counts of an indictment pending against him, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced today. Schultz pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2010
News Release: Troy, Mich., physician Toe Myint was convicted today by a Detroit jury of conspiracy to commit health care fraud in a $4.2 million Medicare Fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade of the Eastern District of Michigan; Special-Agent-in-Charge Andrew G. Arena of the FBI’s Detroit Field Office; and Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
