News from December 2011
By Labor Gazette | Dec 9, 2011
The US Labor Department published a five page proposed rule on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 9, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the National Labor Relations Board announced it will withdraw its complaint against The Boeing Company...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: You are invited to become a Junior Ornithologist with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and learn all about birds. You will become one of thousands of bird watchers across North America who study birds for science and for fun. Become a bird sleuth and track down the "Most Wanted" birds in New York. Whatever...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement today after Republicans laid out a plan to slash federal unemployment insurance by 40 weeks, a move that would cut off benefits to more than 1 million Americans...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: COLUMBUS, OH - Christopher Thompson, 35, of Galloway was sentenced to 181 months in prison for directing a conspiracy involving 15 other people who travelled from Ohio to Florida, obtained and filled prescriptions for oxycodone and other drugs, and sent the pills back to central Ohio for illegal distribution.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: MUNISING, Mich. You may have noticed work going on in recent weeks on the old range light building in downtown Munising. Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Chief of Facility Management Chris Case said, "Many people are not aware that this building, as well as the front and rear range light towers, is owned by the National Park Service, as part of the national lakeshore. We are pleased to announce that the old keepers quarters are getting a face lift.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Assistant United States Attorney Jerry Kitchen, David Harmon of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Dennis B. Mabry of the Drug Enforcement Administration, and Mike Perez of the Department of Homeland Security were recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in support of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in support of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: CHICAGO, IL. - The owners of a northwest suburban Pizzeria and several other individuals have been charged with participating in a major narcotics trafficking operation responsible for importing kilogram quantities of heroin and other drugs into Cook County following a joint investigation by the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Narcotics Prosecution Bureau, which was announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, led by Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., will hold a full committee markup Wednesday, Dec. 14, at 10:00 a.m., to debate legislation that would strengthen the laws prohibiting insider trading by members of Congress and their staffs.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - On Monday Dec. 12, 2011 Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, delivered the keynote address on executive compensation at the Americans for Financial Reform Conference hosted by Public Citizen.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: Sometime soon, microchip fabricators will take the next major step in the relentless reduction of feature size, from the current minimum of 22 nm down to 10 nm and perhaps even smaller. Getting there, however, will entail much more than incremental progress. It will require adopting entirely new technology...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in support of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Four artists, who worked as Artists-In-Residence this past year at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, will unveil their visual interpretations of the park at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 12, at the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center. Mark Burkett, Susan Henshaw, Nancie King Mertz, and Jeanne McLeish will each present their artwork to the park and discuss their experience as an Artist-In-Residence at the national lakeshore.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, is calling on House Republicans to drop dangerous provisions from their payroll tax cut legislation that would stop a clean air rule that protects the American people from toxic mercury and arsenic pollution. The proposal also includes a provision to immediately move forward on the tar sands XL pipeline without proper consideration of public health and safety.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding today’s announcement from the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board that it has dismissed its complaint against Boeing after the company and its workers reached an agreement to keep jobs in Washington State...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today congratulated state officials in Alaska for this week’s successful petroleum lease sale, which netted the state nearly $21 million in high bids.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2011
News Release: TUCSON, AZ. - Doug Coleman, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s Phoenix Field Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel announced that Juan Carlos Delgado-Sagaste, 30, of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge David C. Bury to 15 years imprisonment for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and conspiracy to unlawfully export firearms, following a plea of guilty on
