News from May 2011
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement regarding the Federal Emergency Management Agency's release of its FY11 Preparedness Grant Guidance. Each grant program, except one, was cut significantly.
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Committee Member John McCain, R-Ariz., Thursday moved to fulfill a remaining 9/11 Commission recommendation by introducing legislation to dedicate bandwidth on the broadband spectrum for first responders.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore beaches are being managed under the terms of the U.S. District Court approved consent decree. Park visitors can expect to see resource closures for breeding shorebirds in effect to varying degrees from mid-March to mid-to-late-August and sea turtle nesting closures may...
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: On Memorial Day, May 30th, the Sagamore Hill Band will conduct a special performance at 2:00pm on the front porch of Theodore Roosevelt's Home. The Sagamore Hill Band will perform patriotic music along with a special performance of the Golden Star in honor of Quentin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt's youngest...
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, IL. - Stephen R. Wigginton, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that a Lufkin, Texas, man, Joshua L. McMurray, 32, convicted of Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute (Count 1), and Distribution of (Counts 2 -4), was sentenced to 10 years in federal...
By USDA Newswire | May 19, 2011
Release: Vidalia, LA, May 19, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Under Secretary Dallas Tonsager and Acting Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Michael Scuse will begin today a two-day tour of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Missouri, to meet with those affected by recent disasters.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: TUCSON, AZ. - DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, and Tohono O’Odham Nation Police Chief Joseph Delgado today announced the arrests of 27 of 46 suspected members of the Jesus Valencia Rodriguez drug trafficking organization, who work on behalf of the Mexican...
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: On April 20th, three North Carolina men were convicted and sentenced in Federal Court in Bryson City, N.C., pursuant to two separate cases in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
By EPA Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: House Republicans were encouraged when President Obama announced his support for medical liability reform in this year’s State of the Union address. Immediately after his speech, the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the president pledging to work with the administration on this issue. However, ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) commented on the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulation released today to increase transparency for consumers. The regulation implements a provision Baucus worked to add to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) allowing HHS and state Insurance...
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: House Republicans were encouraged when President Obama announced his support for medical liability reform in this year’s State of the Union address. Immediately after his speech, the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the president pledging to work with the administration on this issue. However, ...
By USDA Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2011/2012 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: House Republicans were encouraged when President Obama announced his support for medical liability reform in this year’s State of the Union address. Immediately after his speech, the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the president pledging to work with the administration on this issue. However, ...
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation has selected 54 new projects in western states to receive a total of $24 million in WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grants. Once funded and completed, these projects will save an estimated 102,221...
By USDA Newswire | May 19, 2011
News Release: After corn is processed to make ethanol, what's left of the corn looks something like slightly dampened cornmeal, though a somewhat darker yellow, and not as finely ground. Known as "wet distiller's grains with solubles" (WDGS), this byproduct is sometimes used as a cattle feed ingredient. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Clay Center, Neb., are studying the pros and cons of that practice.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2011
News Release: At the wishes of his surviving family, Private James Howard Benjamin, US Marine Corps, will be reinterred to Andersonville National Cemetery on Saturday, May 28, 2011, at 1:00 p.m. with the coordination and support of the Patriot Guard Riders, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 6442 (Oglethorpe, Georgia)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner of a Houston-area durable medical equipment (DME) company was sentenced to 84 months in prison for her role in a Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that he has chosen Sheila L. Birnbaum to head the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund program. Birnbaum, a life-long New Yorker, has decades of experience resolving complicated litigation. Birnbaum gained recognition and regard from the victims community for her work mediating a settlement of $500 million for 92 families of victims of the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Mahard Egg Farm Inc., a Texas corporation operating in both Texas and Oklahoma, has agreed to pay a $1.9 million penalty to resolve claims that the company failed to comply with the Clean Water Act at its egg production facilities, announced the Department of Justice and the Environmental ...
