News from December 2011
By DOL Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) issued the following joint statement after the Department of Labor proposed expanding the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to home care providers...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Bipartisan members of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce today introduced a bill to promote the expanded development and use of hydropower. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Diana DeGette (D-CO) co-authored H.R. 3680, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2011, to help facilitate and advance hydropower projects across the country.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: Annual Bird Count to be Held at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: At U.S. Chamber of Commerce, former chairman and CEO outlines priorities to create jobs: Build it here, sell it everywhere
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - After months of negotiations, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today announced language in the 2012 Interior spending bill to return authority over air emissions from offshore activity in the Arctic to the Interior Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: BETHESDA, MD - - Cigarette and alcohol use by eighth, 10th and 12th-graders are at their lowest point since the Monitoring the (MTF) survey began polling teenagers in 1975, according to this year’s survey results. However, this positive news is tempered by a slowing rate of decline in teen smoking as...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Today, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Jane Holl Lute issued the following statement upon signing of a new Passenger Name Records (PNR) agreement between the United States and the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former police officer of Puerto Rico has been convicted by a federal jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for his role in providing security for drug transactions, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Joseph S. Campbell of the FBI’s San Juan Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The country’s two biggest tobacco companies have agreed to improve public access to internal tobacco-industry documents and to pay $6.25 million into a court fund that will go to support the country’s largest online collection of tobacco documents, the Justice Department announced today. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Bridgeport, Conn., man was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill to life in prison for his role in the murder of three Bridgeport residents in August 2005, said Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two individuals were sentenced this week in Atlanta for their involvement in a counterfeit DVD and CD ring, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates for the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Illinois Attorney General’s Office today announced a Clean Water Act (CWA) settlement with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago (MWRD) to resolve claims that untreated sewer discharges ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder announced today the appointments of eight new U.S. Attorneys to serve two-year terms on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC): Laura E. Duffy of the Southern District of California; Timothy J. Heaphy of the Western District of Virginia; Brendan V. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two owners of a Houston mental health care company, Spectrum Care P.A., and the owner of a Houston assisted living facility were arrested today on charges related to their alleged participation in a $90 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two patient recruiters for a Miami health care agency were sentenced today to 18 and 12 months in prison, respectively, for their participation in a $25 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Walter Rufus Stanley Waters Jr. of New Port Richey, Fla., was sentenced today to 19 years and seven months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for transportation of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Robert E. O’Neill of the Middle District of Florida and Special Agent in Charge Steven E. Ibison of the FBI’s Tampa Field Office.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris today commemorated the Office of Disability Employment Policy's 10th anniversary by celebrating the positive impact of its policies and program initiatives with major leaders in the community. Featured speakers ...
By Labor Gazette | Dec 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a grant of $186,000 to assist about 40 workers affected by layoffs from CCI Systems Inc. in Iron Mountain, Mich. Layoffs at this facility, which provides design, engineering, and implementation services for communication network equipment, occurred from August 2010 through August 2011.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
