News from September 2010
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2010
News Release: Brady Issues Statement Asking How China Tires Decision Has Affected U.S. Economy.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2010
News Release: Bozeman, Mont. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) stood with Ambassadors from the Asia-Pacific region today to officially launch the Montana Host Committee for key Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2011 meetings. The APEC trade meetings will bring cabinet-level representatives...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) will offer an amendment to H.R. 5893 that, if passed, will repeal an onerous and job-killing reporting requirement contained in the Democrats’ health overhaul.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2010
News Release: Homestead Florida: On the morning of September 5 professional birding guide Larry Manfredi spotted a rare Cuban Pewee near the Long Pine Key Picnic Area in Everglades National Park. As soon as photographs and recordings of the bird’s song are reviewed by the Florida Ornithological Society Records Committee, this should be the third confirmed sighting of the Cuban Pewee in the United States, and the first for Everglades National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI), Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) today made the following statements on the release of the 2010 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Reports...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2010
News Release: UPDATE 9:20am 8/10- The open hours of the bridge continue to be from 9:00am to 9:00pm. Light trucks and 15 passenger vans may travel across the bridge (empty). Passengers may be required to walk across the bridge and be picked up on the other side during open hours. Load restrictions of 6,000 pounds are in effect.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement in full support of a call by GOP Leader John Boehner (R-OH) on ABC’s “Good Morning America" show to cut government spending to 2008 levels and freeze current tax rates for the next two years - preventing the job-killing $3.8 trillion tax hike that is set to kick-in on Jan. 1, 2011.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement in reaction to the news that former Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski (D-IL) passed away.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, issued a statement Friday following the release of a report, “Assessing the Terrorist Threat," by the National Security Preparedness Group, chaired by Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2010
News Release: Great Kills Park, part of the Staten Island Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area (GATE), remains closed to the public until further notice due to fires that that have burned approximately 200 acres. The fires are currently under control but residual fires continue. Firefighters are patrolling the permimeter of the fire to extinguish remaining hot spots and to respond to possible flare-ups.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — A former employee of a national bank pleaded guilty today for his participation in bid-rigging and fraud conspiracies related to contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other municipal finance contracts, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2010
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Eric Clawson, 28, of San Francisco, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Morrison C. England, Jr., for depriving the civil rights of an African-American man when he assaulted the victim in a bar. During the same proceeding, Clawson pleaded guilty in an unrelated case ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2010
News Release: RICHMOND , Va. – Three principals of a group of businesses that acquired and marketed life settlements to investors were arrested and charged in an 18-count indictment for their alleged roles in a $100 million fraud scheme with more than 800 victims across the United States and Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal inmate was sentenced today in Kansas City, Mo., to 96 months in prison for obstructing justice by making false statements and creating false evidence in connection with another criminal case in which the inmate was charged, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Miami-area resident who owned and operated an HIV infusion clinic pleaded guilty today for her participation in a $23 million HIV infusion Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a comprehensive settlement agreement with McNeese State University and the Board of Supervisors of the University of Louisiana System under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By Fed Newswire | Sep 9, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the agenda and panelists for the third of four public hearings this year on potential revisions to Regulation C, which implements the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). The event will be held Thursday, Sept. 16, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Those who want to attend the hearing should register in advance online.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 9, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among First Community Holding Company, Hammond, Louisiana, a registered bank holding company, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Louisiana Office of Financial Institutions.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 9, 2010
News Release: “The increase in exports and narrowing of the trade deficit underline how critical exports are to our continued economic growth and why the Commerce Department and the Obama administration are working aggressively to achieve the goals of the National Export Initiative -- doubling U.S. exports in the ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 9, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today awarded $8 million in Susan Harwood Capacity Building Grants to 45 organizations, including nonprofit and community/faith-based groups, employer associations, labor unions, joint labor/management associations, and colleges and universities. The grants will assist these organizations in providing safety and health training, and educational programs for workers and employers.
