News from June 2011
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 21, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued a statement regarding today's cloture vote which ended further consideration of bipartisan legislation, S. 782 the Economic Development Revitalization Act of 2011. The bill would have provided investments in infrastructure and job creation to economically distressed communities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Transocean, the company that owned the drilling rig involved in the BP oil spill, today issued a report that continues the pattern of the companies involved in the spill passing blame in advance of expected protracted litigation. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the principal force in Congress...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2011
Release: Casper, WY, June 21, 2011 - Today, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Janey Thornton addressed the need for more Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) sites across the country to feed low-income children when school is out. During the 2011 Wyoming School Nutrition Association...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today approved legislation to protect Americans against unnecessary job losses and high energy costs. The Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act passed the subcommittee by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2011
News Release: Gold nanoparticles are becoming the. well. gold standard for medical-use nanoparticles. A new paper* by researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Cancer Institute's Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL) proposes not only a sort of gold...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - H.R. 2146, the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act, will be marked up at a business meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Wednesday, June 22nd, at 9:30 a.m. The business meeting will be streamed live at
By USDA Newswire | Jun 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today applauded the committee passage of a House-passed pesticides bill that will remove regulatory burdens on producers and public health agencies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today highlighted his CutGo Principle to restore fiscal discipline to the panel, a rule modeled on the CutGo rules for legislation considered on the floor of the U.S. House of representatives. This visionary policy was ushered...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 21, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today highlighted his CutGo Principle to restore fiscal discipline to the panel, a rule modeled on the CutGo rules for legislation considered on the floor of the U.S. House of representatives. This visionary policy was ushered...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) would like to have your comments on a proposal to lease a site to AT&T for construction of a cell phone tower at Craters of the Moon National Monument. Your comments can be provided in writing at the address given in this notice, or they may be tendered via E-Mail to the...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: Today the United States Army and other branches of the military use the "Blue Book" as a standard of excellence when it comes to carrying out daily duties. On Sunday, June 26 National Park Service staff welcomes Kent Bolke, Curator of the 10th Mountain Division & Fort Drum Museum, to Steuben Memorial...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Kerr-McGee Corporation and their affiliates have agreed to pay the United States more than $17 million to resolve claims that the companies violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owed on natural gas produced from federal and Indian ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Iowa ready-mix concrete company pleaded guilty to participating in a price-fixing conspiracy for the sales of ready-mix concrete, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced that it has reached an agreement with the city of Manassas Park, Va., that, if approved by the court, will allow for the city to bail out from its status as a “covered jurisdiction” under the special provisions of the Voting Rights Act, and thereby exempt ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Justice Department today announced it has filed a lawsuit alleging that Waupaca County, Wis., discriminated against Waupaca County Sheriff’s Department patrol officer Julie Ann Thobaben because of her gender when it failed to promote her. The suit was filed in federal district court in Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An owner of a Houston health care company pleaded guilty today in connection with a $654,227 Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Sean Roberts and Nadia Roberts of Tehachapi, Calif., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii of the Eastern District of California to a criminal information charging them with filing a false tax return related to an undisclosed Swiss bank account that they maintained at UBS, as well as other offshore bank accounts, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Departments of Justice and Interior applauded the final approval by U.S. Senior District Judge Thomas F. Hogan of Cobell v. Salazar, a long-running and contentious individual American Indian trust class-action lawsuit. Unless the decision is appealed, the court’s approval of the ...
By Fed Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday issued a proposed rule under Regulation B to clarify that motor vehicle dealers temporarily are not required to comply with certain data collection requirements in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) until the Board issues ...
By Fed Newswire | Jun 20, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced its approval of the application by United Bankshares, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, UBC Holding Company, Inc., both of Charleston, West Virginia, to acquire Centra Financial Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiary bank, Centra Bank, Inc., both of Morgantown, West Virginia.
