News from March 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 17, 2011 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held an oversight hearing on how to harness American resources to create jobs and address rising gasoline prices. The Committee heard from several energy experts who discussed America’s vast energy reserves on federal lands.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: (Washington, DC)-Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (MD-07), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was joined by all Democratic Members of the Committee in introducing H.R. 1144, the “Transparency and Openness in Government Act" to strengthen the nation’s core open government laws.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), convened a hearing on Thursday as part of the American Energy Initiative, an ongoing effort by House Republicans to address rising energy costs, create new jobs, and increase America’s...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), convened a hearing on Thursday as part of the American Energy Initiative, an ongoing effort by House Republicans to address rising energy costs, create new jobs, and increase America’s...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee, wrote to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Chairman Gregory Jaczko to request that the NRC conduct ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - In a bipartisan and bicameral effort to bring job creation to the forefront of the tax reform debate for American businesses and families, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued statements today following the...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2011
News Release: House Trade Leaders: All Three Pending Trade Agreements Will Pass.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON DC- Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander M. Levin (D-MI), delivered the following opening statement today at a markup of the Committee’s Views and Estimates Submission for FY2012 and H.R. 1034, Airport and Airway Trust Fund Financing Reauthorization Act of 2011...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: DENVER – The two leaders of a Colorado-based scheme that defrauded more than 400 consumers throughout the country of $5 million were sentenced to prison, the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced today. Gary Luckner, 41, of Highlands Ranch, Colo., was sentenced today to 90 months ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – In response to a pending lawsuit from Kellogg Brown & Root Services Inc. (KBR) in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the Department of Justice has filed counterclaims alleging that KBR managers had received kickbacks from a dining facility subcontractor in violation of the False Claims Act ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – James Bobby Butler Jr. and Marlin Jackson Butler pleaded guilty today in federal court in Wichita, Kan., to felony conspiracy and wildlife trafficking charges stemming from the illegal sale of guided deer hunts in southern Kansas, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Three former executives of Fair Financial Company, an Ohio financial services business, were arrested today and charged in an indictment filed in the Southern District of Indiana for their roles in a scheme to defraud approximately 5,000 investors of more than $200 million, announced Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Teresa Kelly, a former operations supervisor in Colonial Bank’s Mortgage Warehouse Lending Division (MWLD), pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit bank, wire and securities fraud for her role in a fraud scheme that contributed to the failures of Colonial Bank and Taylor, Bean & Whitaker (TBW).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Maryland woman has been charged by a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., with making false statements and submitting false documents in multiple job applications to U.S. federal government agencies, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. ...
By Commerce News Now | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today announced that a record-breaking 60 million international visitors arrived in the United States in 2010 – shattering the previous record set in 2000 by 17 percent. These international travelers spent more than $134 billion during their visits, a 12 percent increase from 2009.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: Company receives 46 safety and health violations at 3 Ohio facilities MORRAL, Ohio – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Gavilon Grain LLC in Morral following the September 2010 death of a 20-year-old worker who was caught in a discharge auger while cleaning out a grain bin.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of a new online tool to collect public feedback on ways to improve regulations and the department's regulatory review process.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced two grant competitions for the National Farmworker Jobs Program. One competition will fund organizations that will provide training, the other housing services, to migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: MIAMI – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent judgment that restores more than $107,775 to participants in the Miami-based Michigan Drill Corp. Profit Sharing Plan.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 16, 2011
News Release: LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued USA Star Healthcare Group - East Los Angeles Inc. and executives of ElaStar Community Hospital for failure to remit and timely forward employee contributions and loan repayments to the hospital’s retirement plan in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The company also operated under the name ElaStar Community Hospital.
