News from March 2011
By Labor Gazette | Mar 17, 2011
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 17, 2011
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 17, 2011
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on March 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 17, 2011
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on March 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: ATLANTA, GA. - DARIO RODRIGUEZ-GOMEZ, 29, of Doraville, Georgia and MANUEL GAMEZ-VALENZUELA, 46, of Atlanta, Georgia, were sentenced today by United States District Judge Charles A. Pannell on charges that they possessed semi-automatic assault rifles that they intended to send to Mexico. RODRIGUEZ-GOMEZ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a floor speech today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, warned of the fiscal dangers involved with expensive public employee pension programs, the budget-busting burdens they impose on state and local governments, and called for fundamental reforms that put states in charge. The Senate Finance Committee has jurisdiction over public employee pension plans.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: Help us celebrate on April 2, 2011!.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Chairman, and Susan Collins, R-Me., Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Thursday introduced legislation that would require that U.S. intelligence officials be consulted following a suspected foreign terrorist's...
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Following passage of a United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing a no-fly zone and other action in Libya, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA), along with Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), issued the following joint statement:
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: The long awaited rehabilitation of the air conditioning system at Palo Alto's Visitor Center has commenced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: Camp on February Jobs Report: We Still Have a Long Way to Go.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) today responded to United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk’s letter to him indicating the President intends to move the pending free trade agreement with South Korea, without any mention of our pending agreements with Colombia and Panama.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Member and past Chairman Jim McDermott (D-WA) and current Chairman Geoff Davis (R-KY) introduced bipartisan legislation today to allow states to test alternative ways for achieving child welfare policy goals. In the past States have used this...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Against the backdrop of the catastrophe unfolding in Japan, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Thursday heard testimony about the ability of the federal government to respond if a disaster of equivament magnitude struck the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: Dear Madam Secretary: We were disappointed to read the letter that you sent to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus last night regarding the impact of H.R. 1 - a bill to make responsible and necessary spending reductions - on federal health care programs. Your baseless allegations about the...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 116,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2010/2011 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON DC- Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, delivered the following opening statement today at a Subcommittee hearing on the pending trade agreement with Colombia.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At a Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee hearing today, Republicans continued efforts to hold up the South Korea FTA until the Colombia FTA is also ready for consideration. The hearing comes days after notification by the Office of the United States Trade Representative that the Korea FTA is ready to move forward with technical discussions on the draft implementing bill.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) chaired a hearing today on the “Popular Uprisings in the Middle East: The Implications for U.S. Policy." Ambassador Bill Burns, Under Secretary for Political Affairs, Department of State, testified before the Committee. During the hearing, Kerry called on the United Nations Security Council to immediately pass a resolution that will prevent a humanitarian disaster in Libya.
