News from July 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the floor of the House of Representatives as Republicans waste another day, using a rule to require a two-thirds vote to pass the Reid proposal...

By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2011
News Release: Old Fall River Road in Rocky Mountain National Park opened this morning for the season. Old Fall River Road normally opens by the Fourth of July holiday weekend but due to the heaviest late spring snow seen in decades the opening was delayed. There are no good long term records of the opening dates of Old Fall River Road prior to 1985. This is the latest the road has opened in 26 years.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, outlined the fundamental flaws of the Senate Democrats’ debt proposal and called on the U.S. Treasury Department to provide information to the American people about the monetary resources available to avoid default.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Dow Chemical Company has agreed to pay a $2.5 million civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act at its chemical manufacturing and research complex in Midland, Michigan, the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has filed a civil lawsuit against Robert S. Luce, founder and president of MDR Mortgage Corp., a mortgage lending business located in Palatine, Ill., the Justice Department announced today. MDR participated in mortgage insurance programs administered by the U.S. Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – David R. Lewalski, formerly of Gainesville, Fla., pleaded guilty today to mail fraud in connection with his operation of a $30 million investment fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Robert E. O’Neill of the Middle District of Florida. Lewalski, 47, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Pizzo in the Middle District of Florida and faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for accepting illegal gratuities from multiple Iraqi contractors and for stealing from Iraqi fuel reserves, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 29, 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 second quarter of 2011. Today’s release also contained revisions to prior years. Real GDP grew 1.3 percent at an annual rate, below private-sector expectations of 1.8-percent ...
By DOE Gazette | Jul 29, 2011
The US Energy Department published a five page proposed rule on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 29, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page rule on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 29, 2011
The US Labor Department published a two page proposed rule on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 29, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 29, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 29, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 29, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jul 29, 2011
The US State Department published a one page notice on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jul 29, 2011
The US State Department published a two page notice on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jul 29, 2011
The US State Department published a two page notice on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 29, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 29, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.