News from March 2011
By Commerce News Now | Mar 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on March 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on March 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 28, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on March 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 28, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on March 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Advisory Report on FEMA funds going to Emerald Coast Utilities Authority...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Sunterra Produce Traders Inc., operating in Newport Beach, Calif., has posted a $50,000 surety bond with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to employ Donald Beucke, previously named in a PACA action.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: BOISE - Cooper Tyson Chapin, 23, of Twin Falls, Idaho, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boise, Idaho to 24 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone, the U.S. Cooper is the fourth and final defendant sentenced in the Twin Falls area oxycodone trafficking conspiracy. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Chapin to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Jan. 3, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: -. TUCSON, AZ. - Federal District Judge David C. Bury sentenced David Alejo-Martinez, Victor Manuel Bermudez-Chavez, and Abelardo Grajeda-Encinas each to 188 months imprisonment following their convictions at trial on May 13, 2010 for conspiracy to distribute 100 kilograms of cocaine and for distribution...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C.- U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today released the following statement on draft legislation to address issues raised by tribal leaders at a Native American transportation, infrastructure, and economic development roundtable Rahall convened earlier this month...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: National Park Service to Host April 15-16 Science Festival.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a bipartisan letter to 51 medical associations requesting feedback on how to improve the Medicare physician payment system. Congress passed five temporary “fixes" to prevent a major physician payment reduction in 2010, which would limit...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: EL PASO, TX - This spring, the Drug Enforcement Administration and its national and community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. On Saturday, April 30th, from...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a bipartisan letter to 51 medical associations requesting feedback on how to improve the Medicare physician payment system. Congress passed five temporary “fixes" to prevent a major physician payment reduction in 2010, which would limit...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a bipartisan letter to 51 medical associations requesting feedback on how to improve the Medicare physician payment system. Congress passed five temporary “fixes" to prevent a major physician payment reduction in 2010, which would limit...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Responding to bills proposed today by Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) and other Republicans, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: TUCSON, AZ -. - Federal authorities have broken up a drug trafficking organization operating along the United States-Mexico border. The organization is allegedly responsible for trafficking kilo quantities of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine into the United States from Mexico, according to a case unsealed on Thursday.
By State Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) issued the following statement today in response to the judgment by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in the disappearance of Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng:
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new report requested by President Obama and released by the Interior Department today shows that oil and gas companies are leaving millions of acres of public land and water unused, even as they claim they don’t have enough to drill. The report makes the case for legislation already introduced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2011
News Release: SEATTLE, WA - Seven members of a drug conspiracy with ties to the Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and probation today for their roles in trafficking thousands of pounds of B.C. Bud marijuana and cocaine across the U.S./Canada border. Jody York, 36, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2011
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area is inviting photographers, professional and amateur, to submit current photographs of park visitors and staff experiencing one of Whiskeytown’s many adventures including mountain biking, horseback riding, sailing, motor boating, running, hiking, swimming, sunning...
