News from February 2011
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 16, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding today’s White House event on America’s Great Outdoors.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: Public Review Notice -Environmental Assessment to Re-route the Barber Peak Loop Trail Outside of Hole-in-the-Wall Campground, Mojave National Preserve.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This evening on the House Floor, Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) engaged in a colloquy with Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Mike Simpson (R-ID) to discuss provisions in the Continuing Resolution government funding package that...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This evening on the House Floor, Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) engaged in a colloquy with Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Mike Simpson (R-ID) to discuss provisions in the Continuing Resolution government funding package that...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C.- U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today attempted to fend off efforts by Committee Republicans to decrease air passenger safety, cut American jobs, compromise the health and safety of workers and the flying...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing today examining the new bureaucracy responsible for granting widespread waivers for the massive health care law. The subcommittee heard from the officials responsible for granting the waivers, Steve...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing today examining the new bureaucracy responsible for granting widespread waivers for the massive health care law. The subcommittee heard from the officials responsible for granting the waivers, Steve...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2011
News Release: Opening Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer
By DOE Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C. - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner David Stern to announce a new partnership between the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) "If ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C.—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DOJ) today announced the execution of seizure warrants against 10 domain names of websites engaged in the advertisement and distribution of child ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Declaraciones de la Secretaria Napolitano “I’m deeply saddened by the news that earlier today, two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents assigned to the ICE Attaché office in Mexico City were shot in the line of duty while driving between Mexico City and Monterrey by unknown assailants.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The following is in response to the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report, “Review of the Scientific Approaches Used During the FBI’s Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Letters” (Report).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A leader of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) in Maryland was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. to 60 years in prison for conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his gang activities as a member and leader of the Latin Kings.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Twenty individuals, including three doctors, were charged today in the Southern District of Florida for various health care fraud, kickback and money laundering charges related to their alleged participation in a fraud scheme involving approximately $200 million in Medicare billing for purported ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Seizure warrants have been executed against 10 domain names of websites engaged in the advertisement and distribution of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. The seizures are part of a new joint Justice Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) initiative called Operation Protect Our Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The construction manager for a renovation project at the Equitable Building in Des Moines, Iowa, pleaded guilty today in federal court to conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act and for violating the Clean Air Act’s work practice standards related to asbestos removal, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - An agreement has been reached with the town of Swansea, Mass., to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with disabilities, the Justice Department today announced. The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department’s wide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Fred Woolum of Lexington, Va., was sentenced today in the Western District of Pennsylvania to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney ...
