News from July 2010
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2010
News Release: For the second summer in a row, the National Park Service (NPS) Outer Banks Group has hired a group of local youth under the NPS Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program. The crew, which is partially funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will be performing a variety of “hands on" field...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today after President Obama appointed Joshua Gotbaum as Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). Mr. Gotbaum’s nomination was unanimously approved by the Senate HELP Committee in January of this year.
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C.--- By opposing ratification of the New START Treaty in an op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Post, Mitt Romney puts himself at odds with the vast majority of Republican and Democrat foreign policy and national security experts who have stated unequivocally that the New START Treaty will ...
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) authored the following op-ed in today’s Washington Post titled “How New-START will improve our nation’s security."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance, today commented on the recess appointment of Donald Berwick to serve as Administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2010
News Release: There's no substantial quality difference between eggs produced under different production systems. That's one of a number of findings in an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) study examining various aspects of egg quality.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Domestic Policy Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) are calling for an end to the Treasury Department’s much maligned Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) that has so far rejected and pushed more applicants closer to foreclosure (436,053) than it has helped through permanent modifications (346,816).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owners and operators of Ivanhoe House Apartments, an apartment complex in Ann Arbor, Mich., have agreed to pay $82,500 to settle a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department alleging that they had discriminated against African-American home-seekers, in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former senior database administrator for GEXA Energy in Houston was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for hacking into his former employer’s computer network, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jose Angel Moreno for the Southern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice challenged the state of Arizona’s recently passed immigration law, S.B. 1070, in federal court today. In a brief filed in the District of Arizona, the Department said S.B. 1070 unconstitutionally interferes with the federal government’s authority to set and enforce ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that it has reached an agreement resolving its lawsuit against the Fitchburg, Mass., Housing Authority and its executive director, Robert W. Hill. The lawsuit alleged that the Fitchburg Housing Authority and Hill violated the Fair Housing Act by adopting ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that Carline Ceneus, Cabioch Bontemps and Willy Edouard have been indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the Northern District of Florida for engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and visa fraud involving Haitian nationals. Ceneus is also charged with document servitude.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Central Virginia Bancshares, Inc., Powhatan, Virginia, a registered bank holding company, its subsidiary bank, Central Virginia Bank, Powhatan, Virginia, a state-chartered member bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, and the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Bureau of Financial Institutions.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and between Star Bancorp, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, a registered bank holding company, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's solicitor today filed a complaint against the U.S. Postal Service for electrical work safety violations. The complaint, which asks the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission to order USPS to correct electrical violations at 350 facilities, marks the first time the department has sought enterprise-wide relief as a remedy.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is soliciting applications for $2.75 million in Susan Harwood Targeted Topic Training Grants to provide training and education programs on safety and health for workers and their employers. For fiscal year 2010, the program offers 28 targeted topic areas including crane safety, combustible dust, maritime, oil and gas, and eye safety.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – At the direction of Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, July 7 through 9, three U.S. Department of Labor agency heads will travel to Gulf states impacted by the BP Deepwater spill. The delegation will include Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training Jane Oates, Wage and Hour ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: Washington – Assistant Secretary of Labor Phyllis C. Borzi today issued the following statement regarding the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) and the premium reduction under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA): "ARRA provides a COBRA premium reduction for eligible ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration today adopted a final amendment that allows qualified professional asset managers to act as QPAMs for their own employee benefit plans provided certain additional conditions are met.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 6, 2010
News Release: New York – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a final consent order permanently barring Leonard Slutsky and Sharlene Slutsky from control over or serving in positions of responsibility to employee benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, except as outlined in the court order.
