News from June 2010
By Commerce News Now | Jun 21, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a five page notice on June 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 21, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on June 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA), Conference Co-chairs for the bill to strengthen Iran sanctions, announced they had reached an agreement on a draft joint text. The text will now be submitted to other Conferees for review.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Friday, leaders of the Committee on Ways and Means sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner expressing support for a proposed regulation to protect Social Security beneficiaries from unlawful debt collection practices such as garnishment and levy.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has cited Vine Ripe Texas Inc., operating in Houston, Texas, for willful, repeated, and flagrant violations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI), the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, released the statement below calling for the removal of General Stanley McChrystal from command in Afghanistan.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) introduced legislation today to lower taxes for small businesses by allowing businesses to write off more of the cost of purchases, such as equipment and machinery, more quickly than they...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: Commnet Wireless, LLC proposes to construct permanent telecommunications towers at two locations on lands managed by the National Park Service within Curecanti National Recreation Area. Separate environmental assessments have been prepared to evaluate the effects of the proposed actions to the natural...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Saturday, June 19, 2010, Glacier National Park rangers and the Flathead County dive team located and recovered the body of a woman who fell from a bridge below Virginia Falls on the park’s east side Friday, June 18. The woman is identified as 62-year-old Elizabeth Gray McNamara of Kansas City, Missouri.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) commented today on the announcement that China will be taking steps to appreciate the renminbi. From Chairman Baucus...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: Keeping livestock away from poisonous locoweed during seasons when it's a forage favorite is one way ranchers can protect their animals and their profits, according to a 20-year collaboration by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their university partners.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - At approximately 2:15 p.m. on Friday, June 18, Glacier National Park managers extended vehicle access on the west side of the Going-to-the-Sun Road (Sun Road) to Big Bend, 29 miles from the west entrance. Vehicle access on the east side of Sun Road remains at Jackson Glacier Overlook, 13.5 miles from the St Mary entrance. Vehicle access is subject to change depending on weather and road conditions.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today announced the witnesses for the first hearing in a series intended to examine federal education spending at for-profit higher education institutions. The series will examine a broad...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Chuck Grassley and Kit Bond have sent a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, reiterating their concerns about possible waste, fraud and abuse in the Department’s distribution of stimulus funds to troubled Public Housing Authorities.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2010
News Release: Want to keep current with all the things happening at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, what is planned for the future, or what you can do to help the park? Here is a chance to talk to the park superintendent to get your questions answered or to voice your thoughts about your neighborhood national park.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2010
News Release: As we approach the July 4 holiday, the National Park Service reminds the public that fireworks of any kind are prohibited in all areas of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 20, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) sent the following letter to President Barack Obama today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander M. Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today on China’s decision to increase the flexibility of its exchange rate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that it has filed a stipulated settlement agreement resolving a portion of its lawsuit against Erie County, N.Y, regarding the limited issue of suicide prevention and related mental health care.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2010
News Release: Steven Walter Cooke, 47, a reputed high ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) prison/street gang and a previously convicted felon, has been sentenced to prison for possessing firearms, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer for the Department of Justice Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas José Angel Moreno announced today.
