News from January 2011
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), chairman of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement today after a federal judge ruled in favor of private citizens, small businesses, and 26 states to declare last year’s controversial health care law unconstitutional in its entirety...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2011
News Release: Zion National Park to Begin Construction of Two New Comfort Stations in Watchman Campground.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Responding to reports that Republicans in the House and Senate intend to introduce draft legislation restricting the ability of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit dangerous carbon pollution and promote clean energy solutions, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee and a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, issued the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2011
News Release: (Washington, DC) - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today sent letters to more than 100 industry representatives and other organizations, requesting copies of letters they sent in response to requests by Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) to identify regulations that negatively impact job growth.
By State Newswire | Jan 31, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to the ongoing crisis in Egypt.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2011
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park and PBS's Education Series has been presenting The National Parks: America's Best Idea Series each Saturday evening at 7:00 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center. The last program will be shown this Saturday.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2011
News Release: Superintendent Bruce Noble is happy to announce that Chickasaw National Recreation Area’s picnic pavilions are now available for reservation on the national reservation system currently used for the park’s campgrounds. You are now able to reserve and pay for the Veterans Lake and the Buckhorn Pavilions through the website www.recreation.gov or by phoning the call center at 877-444-6777. The rates will remain at $30.00.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 LONDON — Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today visited London to meet with international colleagues to discuss ongoing collaboration between the United States, the United Kingdom and other international partners ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, Susan B. Carbon today opened the first meeting of the re-chartered National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women (NAC). The attorney general spoke with committee members, federal agency representatives ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: CINCINNATI – The former owner of Buddy’s Carpet, Leif D. Rozin, and Alan W. Koehler, the company’s former in-house counsel, were sentenced to prison for their roles in a tax fraud scheme for which they were convicted in 2008, the Justice Department announced today. Both men were formerly full-time Cincinnati ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced an agreement with Fairfax County, Va., to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with disabilities. 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 | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) newly created Science Advisory Board convened its first meeting today in Washington, D.C. Created last year, the board is charged with providing OJP with guidance and recommendations for research, statistics and grant programs, ensuring the programs and activities are scientifically sound and pertinent to policymakers and practitioners.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that former Lucas County Sheriff’s Sergeant John E. Gray was sentenced today by Judge David A. Katz to three years in prison, followed by two years supervised release, for federal civil rights violations and records falsification relating to the in-custody death of a pretrial detainee at the Lucas County Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Dwain D. Williams, 37, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands to life in prison for child sex abuse offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore of the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Leon Pullen, 32, of Foley, Mo., a former police officer employed by the Uplands Park Police Department in suburban St. Louis, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on civil rights violations stemming from several incidents where he sexually assaulted and stole money from women, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against U.S. Park Police detectives involved in the fatal shooting of Trey Joyner.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis today released the advance estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) for the fourth quarter of 2010. Real GDP grew at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, up from a third quarter growth rate of 2.6 percent. Real GDP increased 2.9 percent for the full year of 2010 over 2009. This follows a decline of 2.6 percent in 2009, reflecting the largest change in year-to-year growth since 1983.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 28, 2011
News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke met today with Colombia’s Vice President Angelino Garzon to discuss various trade issues including the pending trade agreement.
By DOJ Gazette | Jan 28, 2011
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 28, 2011
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Jan. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
