News from May 2011
By DOE Newswire | May 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade took an important step to improve consumer product safety protections today by approving the discussion draft of H.R. ___, “Enhancing CPSC Authority and Discretion Act of 2011 (ECADA)."
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2011
News Release: In 2005, President George W. Bush said, “With $55 oil, we don’t need incentives to oil and gas companies to explore. There are plenty of incentives.".
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) applauded recent congressional and judicial efforts to increase offshore energy production.
By USDA Newswire | May 12, 2011
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) agronomist Greg McMaster has developed computer software that tells farmers when to spray pesticides. McMaster works at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Agricultural Systems Research Unit in Fort Collins, Colo. ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court has permanently barred Atlanta-area financial planner T. Michael Haney from promoting the use of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Forms 1099-OID to support false tax withholdings, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which Haney consented, was signed by Judge Clarence Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2011
News Release: The Department of Justice issued the following statement today marking the May 12, 2011, expiration of the final judgment the department obtained as part of its historic Microsoft antitrust case WASHINGTON – As a result of the Department of Justice Antitrust Division’s efforts in the Microsoft case and ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A retired major in the U.S. Army pleaded guilty today in San Antonio to accepting $400,000 from a contractor following his deployment to Kuwait, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Charles Joseph Bowie Jr., 45, of Georgetown, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Gregory Britt Fleming was sentenced today in connection with a series of Costa Rica-based business opportunity fraud ventures, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. Fleming was sentenced by Judge Marcia G. Cooke to a term of 60 months in prison and five years of supervised release. Additionally, he was ordered to pay more than $2.5 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Michael Duane Bracken, of Bolivar, Penn., pleaded guilty today to a charge related to the burning of a cross in the yard of an African-American juvenile in November 2009, the Justice Department announced today. Bracken is the last of three adult defendants to enter a guilty plea in the case, following Michael Francis Bealonis and Kenneth Paul Stiffey Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Phillip A. Hamilton, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, today was convicted by a jury in Richmond, Va., of soliciting employees of Old Dominion University (ODU) for a paid position at the same time he was introducing legislation to fund the position, announced U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Commerce News Now | May 11, 2011
News Release: U.S. exports of private services exceed a half trillion dollars and account for nearly one-third of all U.S. exports of goods and services.
By Commerce News Now | May 11, 2011
News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke issued the following statement today on the release of the March 2011 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services report by the Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Today’s report showed that U.S. exports of goods and ...
By Commerce News Now | May 11, 2011
News Release: U.S. services driving overall exports growth, topping half a trillion dollars The U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) today released a report showing U.S. trade in private services totaled $526.6 billion in 2010, representing a trade surplus that is growing, rising from $66.7 billion in 2003 to $168 billion in 2010.
By Labor Gazette | May 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — Sandra Polaski, deputy undersecretary of labor for international affairs, today testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance to discuss labor rights and conditions in Colombia, the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement's labor provisions and the Colombian Action Plan Related to Labor Rights.
By Labor Gazette | May 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a $6,498,100 National Emergency Grant to assist clean-up and recovery efforts in the aftermath of the tsunami waves that struck California's Crescent City in Del Norte County and coastal areas of Santa Cruz County on March 11, following the magnitude-9 earthquake in Japan.
By Labor Gazette | May 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $463,083 National Emergency Grant to provide training and re-employment services to about 75 workers affected by layoffs at Maine Military Authority in Limestone, Maine.
By DOT News Wire | May 11, 2011
The US Transportation Department published an eight page rule on May 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 11, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a two page rule on May 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 11, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a six page rule on May 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 11, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a six page rule on May 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
