News from April 2011
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 20, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today announced new airline passenger protections that will require airlines to reimburse passengers for bag fees if their bags are lost, provide consumers involuntarily bumped from flights with greater compensation, expand the current ban on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. - On April 14 and 15, federal agents led by the DEA, working closely with local and state law enforcement, arrested 15 people from Southern Colorado who had been named in four separate indictments by a federal grand jury in Denver for drug trafficking offenses. The arrests took...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that up to $130 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will be made available to develop five new program areas that could spark critical breakthrough technologies and secure America's energy...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: Superintendent Jim F. Milestone has announced that Whiskeytown National Recreation Area will be accepting applications for the summer youth job program. Anyone between the ages of 15 and 18 years of age may apply for a summer job. Applications may be obtained at career counseling offices at Shasta, Foothill, Enterprise, West Valley, Central Valley or Anderson High Schools and at Whiskeytown Headquarters Building on Kennedy Memorial Drive beginning April 18, 2011.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement regarding news today that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano officially unveiled the new National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS). NTAS is replacing the often criticized color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Susan Collins has learned that the Obama Administration may soon issue an Executive Order requiring federal agencies to collect information about the campaign contributions of potential contractors before awarding any federal contract. In the name of keeping politics out of the contracting process, the proposed White House policy draft would apparently make information about political contributions a part of every federal contract offer.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: Ranking Member Cummings’s statement on threats of contempt charges by Chairman Issa to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: "Our Committee has a responsibility to investigate allegations of waste, fraud and abuse. However, despite my repeated requests, Chairman Issa has refused to meet with the...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform today, in a letter to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) Acting Director Kenneth E. Melson, criticized the Director for failing to produce any documents in response to a subpoena issued March 31. The subpoena was issued after ATF and Department of Justice officials failed to cooperate in good faith with the Committee’s investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: BOISE - - - Six members of a large Treasure Valley methamphetamine distribution ring were sentenced in federal court in Boise this week. All pled guilty in January to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine or possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: LAREDO, TX - After a two-day trial, a federal jury has found a Donna, Texas, man guilty of conspiring to and possessing with intent to distribute marijuana, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent In Charge, Thomas Hinojosa and United States Attorney José Angel Moreno announced today. The verdicts were returned late yesterday afternoon in U.S. District Judge Diana Saldaña’s court.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and subsequent oil spill.
