News from January 2011
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Ranking Member Jim Inhofe, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield issued the following statement today regarding a federal energy tax under the Clean Air Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today released a letter sent to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seeking details on the temporary $5 billion Pre-Existing Condition...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today Representative Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Social Security, released the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 25, 2011
News Release: The Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service is currently accepting applications for its 2011 Community Artist in the Parks Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released a new report showing that the government’s health care fraud prevention and enforcement efforts recovered more than $4 billion in taxpayer dollars in Fiscal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Lockheed Martin Inc. has reached a $2 million settlement with the United States to resolve False Claims Act claims in a whistleblower suit, the Justice Department announced today. The suit, filed in June 2009, in the Southern District of Mississippi, alleges that the defendants knowingly ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Michigan businessman pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with the federal E-Rate program, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder today joined President Barack Obama and other administration officials to announce the presidential initiative aimed at establishing a coordinated and comprehensive federal approach to supporting military families. Strengthening Our Military Families: Meeting ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today released a proposed rule that aims to prevent and respond to sexual abuse in incarceration settings, in accordance with the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA). Based on recommendations of the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC), the proposed rule ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two individuals pleaded guilty today for their participation in a conspiracy to defraud the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Video Relay Service (VRS) program, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON– Karen L. Blyth and David H.M. Phelps pleaded guilty today in federal court in Mobile, Ala., to 13 felony offenses for their roles in purchasing and selling farm raised Asian catfish and Lake Victoria perch falsely labeled as grouper; selling foreign farm-raised shrimp falsely labeled as U.S. ...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: The Department of Commerce today took the first steps to implement the export control policy initiatives announced by President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Singh on November 8, 2010.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: SEATTLE — Super China Buffet in Shoreline, Wash., and Great Dragon Inc., doing business as King Buffet restaurants in Everett and Marysville, Wash., have agreed to pay $420,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 83 employees. This agreement resolves a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor after an inspection by the department's Wage and Hour Division found violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today took part in unveiling the Obama administration's action plan to strengthen and support military families. She joined the president and first lady, Dr. Jill Biden, other Cabinet members and administration officials, and representatives of veterans service organizations in the East Room of the White House to release the report Strengthening our Military Families: Meeting America's Commitment.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: Employers fined nearly $1.4 million MOUNT CARROLL, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Labor has fined Haasbach LLC in Mount Carroll and Hillsdale Elevator Co. in Geneseo and Annawan, Ill., following the deaths of three workers, including two teenagers. The workers were killed when they suffocated after being engulfed by grain.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a $4,840,359 National Emergency Grant to assist about 825 military spouses and civilian defense workers impacted by a 2005 Base Realignment and Closure action that resulted in the creation of Joint Base Lewis McChord in the state of Washington.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 24, 2011
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2011
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
