News from July 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2011
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) requested that the Senate not bring H.R. 1249, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to the Senate floor unless Section 18, the Transitional Program for Covered Business Method Patents is removed.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The dirty little secret of the much-ballyhooed, but non-existent “nuclear renaissance" just happens to be big and clean - the growth of domestic clean energy production, that is.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced a field hearing will be held in Wichita, Kansas on Thursday, August 25 to discuss reauthorization of the Farm Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2011
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KS. - Barry Grissom, the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, announced that a Shawnee auto dealer has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for helping drug dealers buy vehicles used for drug trafficking without attracting the attention of law enforcement.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2011
News Release: On Saturday, July 16th, members of the Tolowa Nation will present a dance demonstration at 2 p.m. at the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park day use area, located off U.S. 199, just west of the community of Hiouchi, Calif. The demonstration is open to the public, free of charge, and will last about an hour.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 4, 2011
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - An evening of music and dance in salute to Benny Goodman's concert at Springfield Armory in 1943 will take place with two free music concerts and a dance show on Saturday, July 9, 2011. Revisiting the site of that WWII event, the concert will be held at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site. All activities are free and open to the public.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - As concerns grow that the ExxonMobil pipeline spill into the Yellowstone River may be larger than previously thought, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee and a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, called for investigative hearings...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 3, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Saturday, July 2, a three vehicle accident injured eight and temporarily closed Grand Canyon National Park’s South Entrance Road to all vehicular traffic.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 1, 2011
News Release: VIENNA—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today visited Vienna to meet with her international counterparts and deliver remarks to a joint meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Permanent Council (PC) and Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC)—the world's ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Departments of Justice and Education reached a settlement agreement with the Tehachapi Unified School District in Tehachapi, Calif., to resolve an investigation into the harassment of a middle school student based on his nonconformity with gender stereotypes. Title IV of the Civil Rights ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has filed a lawsuit in federal court in New Orleans seeking to bar two women and their tax preparation companies from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred Tracey R. Randolph from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which Randolph consented, was signed by Judge Mark Goldsmith of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The order requires Randolph to provide the government with a list of all persons for whom she prepared returns for tax years 2003 through 2009.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement regarding the importance of Trade Adjustment Assistance: With many Americans looking for a job, promising new trade agreements that would create tens of thousands of jobs are being held up by partisan politics. These ...
By DOE Gazette | Jul 1, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on July 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Jul 1, 2011
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on July 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Jul 1, 2011
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on July 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 1, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on July 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 1, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on July 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jul 1, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on July 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jul 1, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a five page notice on July 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
