News from March 2010
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded Senate passage of a 30-day extension of unemployment insurance benefits and eligibility for assistance in paying COBRA health insurance premiums for unemployed workers. These and other important safety-net programs...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released an updated supplement to a report released last November investigating the firing of Gerald Walpin, the Inspector...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Federal Information Systems Security Educators' Association (FISSEA) are co-hosting FISSEA's 23rd annual conference March 23-25, 2010, at the Natcher Conference Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: 2010 Lyceum Series “Wilderness: Of What Avail Are Forty Freedoms Without A Blank Spot On The Map?".
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 2, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after co-sponsoring Republican Leadership’s Resolution of Disapproval to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened a new competition for grants for the construction of new or expanded scientific research buildings at institutions of higher education and nonprofit organizations. NIST has $50 million available for the cost-sharing grants and anticipates funding three to five projects with grants of $10 to $15 million each.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that it is awarding a total of $19.5 million to the University of Maryland and the University of Colorado to develop and implement NIST measurement science and engineering fellowship programs. The new fellowship programs were funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: Join Park Rangers for the Snow Olympics at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) and let your family spirit shine! Meet at the Visitor Center on M-72 in Empire on March 7 at 2:00 p.m. We will make family Olympic flags and then car caravan to the site for our own winter games with...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: NIST develops and tests biometrics (e.g., fingerprint, face, iris, and multimodal) standards and technology that promote security, interoperability, and innovation. Four projects (in collaboration with the DHS and the FBI) are highlighted in the video...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement after Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) finally dropped his objections to Senate passage of legislation extending federal transportation programs for 30 days...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2010
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have launched a joint effort to gather enhanced climate data from spaceborne climate observation instruments planned for a group of satellites now under development.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2010
News Release: Dear Secretary Napolitano: As the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (the Committee) and as the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery, we are writing to provide comments on the draft National Disaster...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security Plan to Develop a Tribal Consultation and Coordination Policy Implementing Executive Order 13175 (PDF, 12 pages - 125 KB) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today unveiled ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that it will monitor primary elections on Mar. 2, 2010, in Fort Bend, Galveston, Gonzales, Williamson and Wilson Counties in Texas, to ensure compliance with the minority language requirements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Fe S. Garrett, a resident of National City, Calif., was sentenced today to 65 months in prison and ordered to pay $377,468 in restitution by U.S. Judge M. James Lorenz in San Diego, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. In August 2009, Garrett was convicted of filing false individual tax returns, failure to pay taxes, and multiple counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns following a nine-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2010
News Release: BAE Systems plc (BAES) pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia to conspiring to defraud the United States by impairing and impeding its lawful functions, to make false statements about its Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance program, and to violate the Arms ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that landlord James Stevens, his company Fountain View Apartments Inc., and his former rental manager, Mildred Chastain, have agreed to pay $415,000 in monetary damages and civil penalties to settle a Fair Housing Act lawsuit alleging that they discriminated against African Americans and families with children at Fountain View Apartments, a 42-unit apartment complex in Orange City, Fla.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2010
News Release: A federal jury in Los Angeles convicted a Fresno woman late Friday after it found that she committed Medicare fraud by recruiting patients for the purpose of receiving unnecessary power wheelchairs, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; George S. Cardona, Acting U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2010
News Release: Bassey Monday Idiong, Linda Eteimo Ere Kendabie and Modupe Babanumi each pleaded guilty today in connection with their roles in an "arthritis kit" Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno of the Southern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2010
News Release: Two former executives of Medical Manager Health Systems Inc., (Medical Manager), a subsidiary of WebMD Corporation from 2000 to 2005, were convicted today by a federal jury in Charleston, S.C., with participating in a conspiracy to fraudulently inflate the reported earnings of Medical Manager by more ...
