News from November 2011
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Maine, Friday introduced legislation to provide benefits for and require obligations from the domestic partners of federal employees.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week the president made headlines when he opted out of a jobs plan to put thousands of Americans back to work at zero-cost to taxpayers. With over a hundred thousand jobs on the line, the president refused to approve the Presidential Permit needed to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: NEW YORK, NY. - DEA Special Operations Division Special Agent in-Charge Derek Maltz and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the extraditions of Siavosh Henareh and Cetin Aksu from Romania, on charges of conspiring to provide narcotics and, in the...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 18, 2011 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing on, the Coal Miner Employment and Domestic Energy Infrastructure Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Bill Johnson (OH-06), to prevent the Obama Administration from enacting...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed six members to serve on the National Mango Board. Representatives will complete three-year terms beginning on Jan. 1, 2012. Newly appointed members include: Veny L. Marti, of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, representing domestic producers; Gregory Adam Golden of Mullica Hill, N.J. and Bill Vogel of San Pedro, Calif., on behalf of domestic mango importers; and Enrique Sanchez of Nayarit, Mexico representing foreign producers.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - This week, a group of 20 academics and economists sent a letter to the House Committee on Ways and Means and the Senate Finance Committee calling for a reduction in the corporate tax rate. Noting that the United States has the second highest statutory combined corporate tax rate of all...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced plans to hold a vote November 30 on controversial changes to the rules governing union elections...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: SEATTLE,WASH - Santos Nemecio-Pantaleon, age 30, of Mexico, and Rigoberto Nemecio-Flores, age 21, of Mexico, pled guilty today to manufacturing marijuana and possession of firearms in furtherance of a marijuana grow operation.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 124,500 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2011/2012 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the October jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 80,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for October was 9.0 percent.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM-ES) office in Springfield, Virginia, has reversed a previous decision regarding the ownership of Wisteria Island near Key West, Florida. Further review of historic documents by BLM-ES subject matter experts, revealed that Wisteria Island has been in a protected status since 1908.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week the president made headlines when he opted out of a jobs plan to put thousands of Americans back to work at zero-cost to taxpayers. With over a hundred thousand jobs on the line, the president refused to approve the Presidential Permit needed to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, ...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week the president made headlines when he opted out of a jobs plan to put thousands of Americans back to work at zero-cost to taxpayers. With over a hundred thousand jobs on the line, the president refused to approve the Presidential Permit needed to construct the Keystone XL pipeline, ...
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC-Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today issued a statement on the National League for Democracy’s (NLD) announcement that it will formally rejoin Burma’s politics and contest upcoming by-elections:
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: Camp, Herger, Black Statements on H.R. 674 to Repeal the 3 Percent Withholding Provision on Government Contractors.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: Hawaiʻi National Park, HI - The National Park Service is pleased to announce the availability of the draft plan and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) aimed at protecting and restoring native ecosystems by managing non-native ungulates (hoofed mammals) within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the Republican tax proposal to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction that seeks to cut the top tax rate for the wealthiest Americans to 28 percent and dramatically scale back all of the tax expenditures except for the reduced rate for capital gains and dividends...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2011
News Release: ALBANY, NY. - Acting Special Agent in Charge Wilbert L. Plummer announced that as a result of a recent joint investigation between investigators in the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office, the Rensselaer County Drug Task Force, the City of Troy Police Department, federal Drug Enforcement ( DEA ) officers, and United States Postal Inspectors, approximately 16.8 pounds of marijuana were confiscated in Troy and earmarked to be destroyed by authorities.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Today, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security and lead negotiator for the United States government Jane Holl Lute issued the following statement upon initialing an agreement between the United States and the European Union on the transfer and future sharing of Passenger Name Records (PNR).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The manager of a Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-area assisted living facility and owner of a purported community mental health center pleaded guilty yesterday for his role in a Medicare fraud kickback scheme that funneled patients through a fraudulent mental health company, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), announced the Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
