News from March 2010
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write to you in our capacity as members of the Commission established to make recommendations to you regarding the appointment of the next Comptroller General of the United States. Earlier this week, the Democratic members abruptly ended the Commission’s work, preventing further...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: Dear Chairman Durbin and Ranking Member Collins...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today hailed Senate passage of key improvements to the landmark health care reform law signed by President Obama earlier this week. This legislation improves affordability by increasing tax credits to help Americans pay for insurance...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: Come discover your neighborhood national park unit at the first annual Santa Monica Mountains Science Festival. The event is free and open to the public. Hours are 7:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, April 16th, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 17th at Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills, CA.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: The Mariposa Grove Road in Yosemite National Park will open for the season tomorrow, March 26, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. The road provides visitor access to the Mariposa Grove of Big Trees, the largest grove of Giant Sequoia in Yosemite National Park. The road is located near the park’s South Entrance, on Highway 41.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: Senator Chuck Grassley released the following statement after the Democrats twice blocked his efforts to extend unemployment and COBRA benefits and take care of theMedicare cut that doctors across the country will be hit with if the extension doesn’t pass.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2010
News Release: Harkers Island, North Carolina. Russel J. Wilson, Superintendent of Cape Lookout National Seashore announced the park has been awarded a National Park Service Youth Intern Program Grant for the summer of 2010 for Mentoring Youth Toward Career Opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that two detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the Government of Switzerland. The Swiss Government, with the support of the Canton of Jura, accepted the two Chinese nationals of Uighur ethnicity for resettlement in Switzerland.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has reached a comprehensive settlement agreement with the city of Jackson, Miss., to improve access to public transportation for individuals with disabilities, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: A State Department employee was sentenced today to 12 months of probation for illegally accessing more than 60 confidential passport application files, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division announced. Debra Sue Brown, 47, of Oxon Hill, Md., was also ordered by U.S. Magistrate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: Sterling Heights, Mich., resident Solomon Nathaniel was sentenced today to 62 months in prison for his role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Barbara ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: A federal jury in the Western District of North Carolina convicted Ugochukwu Enwerem yesterday on charges stemming from an advance-fee fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and Deputy Chief Postal Inspector Zane M. Hill.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Roberto Antonio Argueta, aka "Alex Antonio Cruz," aka "Buda," 29, of Hyattsville, Md., to life in prison, plus an additional 35 years, for ordering the murder of Nancy Diaz and the attempted murder of another juvenile girl. A 12-person federal jury voted today to impose a sentence of life in prison without parole on Argueta.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Sacramento, Calif., today convicted, Eric Clawson, 28, of San Francisco, of a federal hate crime for assaulting an African-American man in a Chico, Calif. bar, announced Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, and Benjamin B. Wagner, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Sterling Heights, Mich., resident Solomon Nathaniel was sentenced today to 62 months in prison for his role in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the Medicare program, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: NEW YORK – As residents of the northeast U.S. recover from flooding and associated damage from the recent multi-day nor'easter storm that swamped the region, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges workers and members of the public engaged in cleanup activities to be aware of the hazards they can encounter and the necessary steps they should take to protect themselves.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of $12 million in additional funding to 24 programs that are currently operating prisoner re-entry programs through the Reintegration of Ex-Offenders initiative.
By DOJ Gazette | Mar 24, 2010
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Mar 24, 2010
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 24, 2010
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on March 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
