News from November 2010
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today reached an agreement to ensure seniors and military families can be confident they will be able to continue seeing their doctors. The Finance leaders’ agreement would provide a path...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: As the National Park Service prepares for the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the staff and volunteers of Fort Sumter National Monument are presenting monthly talks at the Fort Moultrie Visitor Center on Sullivan’s Island.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: OLD-TIME MARITIME CHRISTMAS TAKES VISITORS BACK TO 1901.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded Senate passage of a bill to ensure seniors and military families will be able to continue seeing their doctors. The Physician Payment and Therapy Relief Act of 2010 was introduced by Baucus and Ranking Member Chuck...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 18, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding news reports that the Department of the Interior has postponed the planned lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico until 2012.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cited Missiana Produce Inc. (Missiana) of Bruce, Miss., for mislabeling the state of origin on 3,850 boxes of sweet potatoes shipped in interstate commerce. The mislabeled sweet potatoes had been grown in Mississippi but Missiana incorrectly marked them as originating in Louisiana, which is in violation of Section 2(5) of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee leaders have introduced bipartisan legislation to revamp the process by which the public is able to comment on government regulations to make it more accessible, innovative, and efficient.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s National Soil Dynamics Laboratory (NSDL) here today marked its 75th anniversary with a celebration of the unit's research accomplishments that have ranged from creation of a new soil science discipline to contributions to undersea cable communications technology. The laboratory has been operated since 1953 by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON DC - House Republicans today blocked passage of legislation that would help millions of unemployed workers make ends meet this holiday season. H.R. 6419, the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Continuation Act would extend Federal unemployment insurance (UI) programs for three months preventing approximately two million unemployed workers from losing their benefits by the end of the year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: Theodore Roosevelt National Park. America's Best Idea: National Park Getaway. MEDORA, N.D. - The badlands hills rise one after another, revealing strata of colors: taupe and tan, red-brown, blue-gray. Earth here is a hybrid-hills like camel humps, tiger-striped by their rock layers-through which a smooth...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 18, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) sent the following to Members of the House Republican Conference of the 112th Congress proposing the creation of an Energy and Natural Resources Committee by consolidating the energy portfolio...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: GATEWAY ARCH OFFERS EXTENDED HOURS TO.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: This month, Gateway National Recreation Area capped a year of facility and program improvements to Frank Charles Park by resurfacing the tennis courts. Frank Charles Park, a section of Gateway's Jamaica Bay Unit, is a 20-acre park located in Howard Beach, Queens.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action against Vincent Giuffrida and Blue Chip Companies LLC. The complaint alleges Blue Chip Companies LLC failed to comply with the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) by employing Vincent Giuffrida during the period in which he was under employment restrictions for previous violations.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: Chickasaw National Recreation Area is now accepting applications for multiple campground host positions for the 2011 season. Positions are available at the Point, Buckhorn, Cold Springs, and Rock Creek campgrounds.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2010
News Release: (San Francisco, CA)-Conzelman Road, between McCullough and Field Roads, will reopen to all traffic with weekday delays, starting Saturday, November 6, as the first season of the four-year construction project winds down. The road and trail delays will be Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – After more than two years of legal proceedings, alleged international arms dealer Viktor Bout has been extradited to the Southern District of New York from Thailand to stand trial on terrorism charges, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Four student aid lenders have paid the United States a total of $57.75 million to resolve allegations that they improperly inflated their entitlement to certain interest rate subsidies from the U.S. Department of Education in violation of the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON– Fang Ping Ding was sentenced in federal court late yesterday to 37 months in prison for confiscating the passport, visa and other documents of a woman from the People’s Republic of China in order to maintain control over the victim and force her to work as an unpaid, live-in domestic servant. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice joined representatives from across the federal government to mark the progress made in modernizing the federal workforce hiring process over the past six months. In May, President Obama issued a memorandum that directed federal agencies to modernize how they hire employees by directing agencies to reduce the time it takes to hire an applicant, to begin accepting resumes and to simplify the overall hiring process.
