News from January 2011
By USDA Wire | Jan 27, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jan 27, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a one page rule on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 27, 2011
The US Transportation Department published an eight page proposed rule on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jan 27, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 27, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a four page proposed rule on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jan 27, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - At this morning’s hearing, Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) and other members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) heard testimony from Americans who are already experiencing benefits of the Affordable Care Act. One witness, a 21 year old named Emily Schlichting who suffers from a chronic auto-immune disease, told the Committee that her life has drastically changed for the better thanks to the new health reform law.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Department of Homeland Security today announced change from the system of color-coded alerts to a new notification system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: EUGENE, ORE -.- Noel Nathaniel Yaun, 34, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced on Jan. 26, 2011, to 37 months in prison for structuring currency transactions. Yaun pled guilty on Nov. 10, 2010, to structuring currency transactions to avoid reporting requirements. He resided in Columbia, South Carolina, when he committed the offense.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: NIST Gaithersburg will be closed today. Non-emergency employees should stay home.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service has received an application for construction of a cabin to support commercial fishing activities in the Glacier Bay National Preserve at Dry Bay. The permit applicant is a qualified commercial fisherman. The proposed cabin would be located on a 0.25 acre parcel adjacent to Dog...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: One of the world's largest collections of cool-season forage and turf grasses is located at the Western Regional Plant Introduction Station (WRPIS), operated in Pullman, Wash., by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA. - DESHON SIGNAL -, age 34, a resident of Laplace, Louisiana, pled guilty today in federal court before U. S. District Carl Barber to a six-count indictment charging him with distribution of crack cocaine, possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine of cocaine, felon-in-possession of a firearm, and possession of firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Jim Letten.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: CHICAGO, IL. - The Chicago Police (CPD) and Drug Enforcement (DEA) collaborated to seize a total of 38 pounds of methamphetamine this past weekend. The CPD estimates the street value of the drug seizure at $5.6 million. As a result of the joint mission, three offenders were charged with state narcotics offenses and their vehicles were seized in connection to the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: ROCHESTER, NY. - United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Field Division Special Agent in Charge John P. Gilbride and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester has returned an indictment charging Joseph Mitchell, 39, of Rochester, New York, and his...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 27, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) is leading a bipartisan, multi-state effort to protect farmers and foresters in Washington state and across the country whose livelihoods are threatened by new burdensome federal regulations.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, made the following remarks on the benefits of health reform at the Families USA’s 16th Annual Health Action Conference in Washington, D.C. today. Harkin was the first speaker at the conference, which is expected to draw more than 800 health care advocates from around the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: EL PASO, TX - Joseph M. Arabit, Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), and John Murphy, United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas, announced on Jan. 27, 2011, that Carlos Mario Gomez-Muro was extradited by Mexico to the United States to stand trial on cocaine trafficking charges.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: The Committee’s Republican members used the hearing to press Sunstein on conflicting statements from the administration about whether this supposedly new approach to regulating would apply across the federal government, and to dig deeper into some recent regulatory controversies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to provide greater transparency and certainty in the reactor license renewal process. Although the NRC timeline for renewal is typically 22 to 30...
