News from November 2010
By State Newswire | Nov 5, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today released a statement in response to Cyclone Giri’s impact on the Rakhine State of Burma, where relief agencies are reporting widespread damage:
By DOL Newswire | Nov 5, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s senior Republican member, issued the following statement today after the U.S. Department of Labor reported the national unemployment rate remained at 9.6 percent during the month of October...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2010
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2010
News Release: Portland, Ore. -- The Renewable Energy & Eastern Oregon Landscape Conservation Partnership will be holding a day-long discussion about renewable energy opportunities and conservation issues. The Partnership, that includes participation from the BLM, State of Oregon, and Association of Oregon Counties...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., November 5, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the Department of Labor released the October jobs report showing that the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.6 percent.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - AARP's endorsement helped secure passage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Now the seniors' lobby is telling its employees their insurance costs will rise partly as a result of the law.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2010
News Release: Yosemite National Park has been selected as the recipient of the Fiscal Year 2010 National Park Service (NPS) National Sustained Park Accessibility Achievement Award. The award, which was presented to the Yosemite National Park Accessibility Program, recognizes an individual park that has made “sustained" efforts to comprehensively identify barriers to equal accessibility for persons with disabilities and to implement consistent, on-going action to resolve those barriers.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2010
Release: A bill to adjust the boundaries of the Pisgah National Forest in McDowell County, North Carolina, and to authorize the purchase of privately held land by the U.S. Forest Service. Passed Committee by voice vote and ordered to be reported favorably to the House with the recommendation that it pass, July 29, 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2010
News Release: National Parks Waive Entrance Fees on November 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Tyrone L. Ellis, a former civilian employee of the Department of Defense (DoD), was arrested yesterday and has been charged with conspiracy, conversion and false statements related to his alleged theft of Army Emergency Relief (AER) funds while he was employed at Camp Humphreys in the Republic of Korea, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A global freight forwarding company, as well as five oil and gas service companies and subsidiaries, have all agreed to resolve investigations of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations, the Department of Justice and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Louisiana ship-operating company was sentenced in U.S. District Court in New Orleans on charges related to the illegal discharge of oil into the oceans, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – David R. Lewalski, formerly of Gainesville, Fla., was arrested today in Manhattan on a wire fraud charge related to his alleged participation in a $30 million investment fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Robert E. ...
By Fed Newswire | Nov 4, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: 1st Brookfield, Inc. (46 KB PDF), Brookfield, Illinois Written Agreement dated Oct. 28, 2010 Hometown of Homestead Banking Company (44 KB PDF), Homestead, Florida Written Agreement dated Nov. 1, 2010 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions
By Fed Newswire | Nov 4, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday established the Office of Financial Stability Policy and Research and appointed Board economist J. Nellie Liang as its director.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 4, 2010
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Oct. 30, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 457,000, an increase of 20,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 437,000. The 4-week moving average was 456,000, an increase of 2,000 from the previous week's revised average of 454,000.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 4, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U. S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) will hold a public hearing Dec. 7, 2010, on issues relating to disclosure of fees, conflicts of interest and other information by service providers to health, disability, severance and other employee welfare benefit plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to fiduciaries of such plans.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 4, 2010
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a default judgment ordering Skinner Bonding of Oregon Inc. and Mary Anne Skinner, the company’s former owner and president, to restore $177,807 to the company’s salary savings and profit-sharing plan.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 4, 2010
News Release: HUDSON, Wis. – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Miller Homes of Hudson LLC and the company’s former vice president, Leo Draveling, seeking restitution of $21,716.10 in voluntary employee contributions plus loss interest to the company’s savings incentive match plan for employees individual retirement accounts. The case resulted from an investigation by the department into alleged violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
By DOE Gazette | Nov 4, 2010
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Nov. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
