News from July 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON -U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s call for tax hikes for deficit reduction...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park Awarded America's Best Idea Grant.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONTANA - Officials from Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park invite the public to the eighth annual Waterton-Glacier Science and History Day on Friday, July 22, from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., at the Lake McDonald Lodge Auditorium in Glacier National Park. The event is free of charge...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Republican caucus continued to push an energy and water spending bill today that would actually increase funding to fossil fuel and nuclear energy, while slashing funding for solar, wind, and other clean energy technologies. By a vote of 154-266, the GOP rejected an amendment by...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings issued the following statement in response to Department of Justice’s announcement of the new reporting measure for multiple sales of semi-automatic rifles in select states along the border.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2011
News Release: The Coast Guard and National Park Service conducted a joint search near Santa Cruz Island, Calif., that concluded with the apprehension of 15 suspected illegal migrants, July 10.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 10, 2011
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS ), the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mexican Ministry of the Interior announced Monday that the Mexican Interior Repatriation Program (MIRP) - a bilateral, voluntary program that ensures the safe return of Mexican nationals found to be unlawfully in the Sonora Arizona desert region of the United States to their places of residence in the Mexican interior - has resumed for the eighth consecutive summer.
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - This morning, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) issued the following statement congratulating the Republic of South Sudan on its independence:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A U.S. Army contractor was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for stabbing another individual with a knife at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia and James W. McJunkin, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced that it has reached an agreement with Rappahannock County, Va., that will allow for the county and its two political subdivisions, the Rappahannock County School District and the town of Washington, to bail out from their status as “covered jurisdictions” ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal indictment returned by a McAllen, Texas, grand jury on June 7, 2011, charging former Port Isabel Detention Center Lieutenant Raul Leal with using excessive force on a detainee, obstruction of justice and lying to a federal agent was unsealed today following Leal’s arrest, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Iowa-based company pleaded guilty today to participating in a price-fixing conspiracy for the sales of ready-mix concrete, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The co-owner of two health care companies was convicted late yesterday on multiple health care fraud charges related to his participation in a scheme to defraud Medicare, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Juna Gwedolyn Babb, 56, and Michael J. Babb, 55, both of Ellenwood, Ga., pleaded guilty today in federal court to felony offenses related to a scheme to compel the labor of a young woman from the Kingdom of Swaziland in southern Africa, announced the Department of Justice.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 8, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the June 2011 Employment Situation report released today: "Our nation's labor market experienced slower growth in the month of June. The private sector added 57,000 jobs, but federal, state and local governments cut a combined 39,000 positions, resulting in a total gain of 18,000 non-farm payroll jobs last month. The national unemployment rate edged up to 9.2 percent.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 8, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jul 8, 2011
The US State Department published a one page notice on July 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 8, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on July 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 8, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a five page notice on July 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 8, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on July 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
