News from March 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: 0: Job creation measures proposed by House Republicans.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 2, 2011 - Today, the House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs held an oversight hearing on the FY 2012 budget request for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). The hearing focused on $1.69 billion request for FWS, $47.8 billion above FY ’10 levels, and increased funding for government land acquisition.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Opening Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2011
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack announced plans to settle the discrimination claims of women and Hispanic farmers and ranchers against the USDA.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, released his opening statement from a committee hearing today examining how changes to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 have affected the tax code. Today’s hearing is the first in a series this Congress examining America’s inefficient and burdensome tax code and ways to improve it to spur economic growth and job creation.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 1, 2011 - Today at a Natural Resources Committee hearing, Republican Members soundly rejected the Obama Administration’s new “Wild Lands" order. This Secretarial Order, issued without public consultation, attempts to designate Wilderness areas without Congressional approval. Numerous...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement today after the U.S. House of Representatives approved a continuing resolution to temporarily fund the federal government through March 18, 2011...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTONArch Coal Inc., the second largest supplier of coal in the United States, has agreed to pay a $4 million penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Water Act in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON—David L. Place, owner of Manor House Antiques Cooperative in Nantucket, Mass., was sentenced to 33 months in prison for illegally importing and trafficking in Narwhal tusks and Sperm Whale teeth, the Department of Justice and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - FBI agents today arrested four people in connection with an armed home invasion robbery in Bartonsville, Penn., announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Special Agent in Charge George C. Venizelos of the FBI’s Philadelphia Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Victor Kaganov, who emigrated from Russia and set up numerous shell corporations in Oregon on behalf of Russian clients, pleaded guilty today to charges of operating an unlicensed money transmitting business, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Four alleged members and associates of the New England La Cosa Nostra (LCN), including an alleged former boss, were charged with crimes involving racketeering, extortion and related crimes in a superseding indictment unsealed today in Providence, R.I.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday proposed regulations regarding the credit score disclosure requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The statute requires creditors to disclose credit scores and related information to consumers in risk-based pricing and adverse action notices under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) if a credit score was used in setting the credit terms or taking adverse action.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: Bridgeview Bancorp, Inc. (63 KB PDF), Bridgeview, Illinois Written Agreement dated Feb. 18, 2011 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: The White House Council on Women and Girls was created by President Obama in early 2009 to enhance, support and coordinate the efforts of existing programs for women and girls. When President Obama signed the Executive Order creating the Council on Women and Girls, he noted that the issues facing women ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: BOSTON — The U.S. Department of Labor scored an important victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit against Operation Management Group Co. Inc., a contractor that supplied personnel to restaurants and other service industries in the greater Boston area, and its owner, Adilso Bosi. The ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: CHICAGO — The U.S. Department of Labor has assessed a total of $277,475 in civil money penalties against three movie theatre companies, Marcus Theatre Corp., Regal Cinemas Inc. and Wehrenberg Inc., for allowing dozens of teens to perform hazardous jobs and work longer hours than allowed by the youth employment provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor is notifying all former Simonds Saw and Steel Co. employees who worked at the company's site in Lockport, N.Y., about a new class of employees added to the Special Exposure Cohort of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. The EEOICPA ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor is notifying all former Texas City Chemicals Inc. employees who worked at the site in Texas City, Texas, about a new class of employees added to the Special Exposure Cohort of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. The EEOICPA provides ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor is notifying all former BWX Technologies Inc. employees who worked at the company's site in Lynchburg, Va., about a new class of employees added to the Special Exposure Cohort of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. The EEOICPA ...
