News from August 2011
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: As a special experience for the visiting public and local communities, the National Park Service will be offering Full Moon Tours of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse the evening of Saturday, August 13. Two tours will be given, one at 7:30 p.m. and a second at 8:30 p.m., each tour is limited to 30 people.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Washington -Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced five appointments to the Sorghum Promotion, Research, and Information Board.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement urging immediate approval of a clean FAA extension...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging HHS to provide 340,000 consumers in Michigan’s individual health insurance market a waiver from the onerous medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements enacted under the Democrats’ health care law.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), the committee’s Ranking Member, today urged U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to work closely together ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: HAMMOND, IN. - The owner of a weight loss clinic with three locations in northwest Indiana and south suburban Chicago and his wife were indicted for allegedly illegally dispensing amphetamine-based controlled substances to patients and engaging in illegal monetary transactions and tax fraud. The defendants, ...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Special Event August 6 & 7, 2011.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging HHS to provide 340,000 consumers in Michigan’s individual health insurance market a waiver from the onerous medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements enacted under the Democrats’ health care law.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today U.S. Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and U.S. Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging HHS to provide 340,000 consumers in Michigan’s individual health insurance market a waiver from the onerous medical loss ratio (MLR) requirements enacted under the Democrats’ health care law.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement as the FAA faces a continued shut down due to Senate Democrats’ refusing to take up a House-passed bill that would fund the agency...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: Building Resilience through Public-Private Partnerships WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate, DHS Private Sector Office Assistant Secretary Douglas A. Smith and other ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Members of Online Child Pornography Community Arrested on Five Continents WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today the unsealing of three indictments ...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today met with anti-human trafficking non-governmental organization (NGO) and victim service leaders to discuss the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) progress to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today the unsealing of three indictments and one complaint charging a total of 72 individuals for their participation in an international criminal network dedicated to the sexual abuse ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: BOSTON– A $1-million settlement has been reached for natural resource damages (NRD) at the Blackburn & Union Privileges Superfund Site in Walpole, Mass., the Departments of Justice and Interior (DOI), and the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert E. Greeley, a resident of San Francisco, pleaded guilty today to charges of filing a false federal income tax return, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Greeley appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer in San Francisco and accepted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a settlement with the city of Walnut, Calif., resolving allegations that the city violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied the Chung Tai Zen Center of Walnut a permit to construct a Buddhist house ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: MIAMI – Louis Gendason of Delray Beach, Fla.; Kimberly Mackey of Pittsburgh; and John Incandela, of Palm Beach, Fla., pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for their participation in a $2.5 million Home Equity Conversion Mortgage, or reverse mortgage, fraud scheme.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 3, 2011
News Release: Our science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workforce is crucial to America’s innovative capacity and global competitiveness. Yet women are vastly underrepresented in STEM jobs and among STEM degree holders despite making up nearly half of the U.S. workforce and half of the college-educated ...
