News from November 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved H.R. 1173, the Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act of 2011, which repeals the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Program, by a vote of 33 to 17. On Oct. 14, 2011, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement at an event organized by the National Climate Ethics Campaign on the moral and ethical obligation to address climate change...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved bipartisan legislation to provide much-needed certainty for rural America. H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, passed the full committee with bipartisan support by a vote of 33 to 16.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, said today that the National Governors Association’s (NGA) Fiscal Survey of the States demonstrates why repealing the Medicaid Maintenance of Effort requirement, first imposed in the stimulus package and again in the $2.6 trillion health spending law, and modernizing the Medicaid programs is essential to allowing states effectively manage their Medicaid programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence convened its first of four public hearings to gather expert and community testimony on the epidemic of children’s exposure to violence. Recent research shows that more than 60 percent of American children ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Lafarge North America Inc., one of the largest suppliers of construction materials in the United States and Canada, and four of its U.S. subsidiaries have agreed to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations. The violations include unpermitted discharges of stormwater and failure to comply ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance, in collaboration with the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC), today announced a new public education campaign to combat the purchase and sale of counterfeit and pirated products. The campaign, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury today convicted Danilo Velasquez, aka “Triste,” a local leader of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, in federal court in San Francisco of racketeering conspiracy and related charges, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Acting Assistant Attorney General Sharis Pozen of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Jon Leibowitz today met with a delegation from China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) to discuss antitrust merger enforcement. The delegation was led ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner of a Houston health care company pleaded guilty today in connection with a Medicare fraud scheme involving durable medical equipment (DME), announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: The Justice Department announced today the launch of a live webinar series on avoiding workplace discrimination. The webinars coincide with the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which created the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former Massachusetts scientist and businessman was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Rya W. Zobel in Boston to one year and one day in federal prison for executing a fraud scheme involving a multi-million dollar federal research grant.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A patient recruiter pleaded guilty today for his participation in a Medicare fraud scheme operated out of three Detroit-area health care clinics, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By Fed Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: First State Bank of DeQueen, DeQueen, Arkansas Order of assessment of civil money penalty in the amount of $4,235, dated Nov. 21, 2011 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings from October 3 through Oct. 31, 2011.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: Harvard College won the eighth annual national College Fed Challenge on Tuesday. The team from Cambridge, Mass. represented the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and included Anirudha Balasubramanian, Sumit Malik, Andreas Schaab, Benjamin Sprung-Keyser, James Sun, Justin Katiraei, and faculty adviser Benjamin Friedman.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: Multiyear effort aims to protect workers, law-abiding employers against industry noncompliance WESTBURY, N.Y. An ongoing enforcement initiative conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has found widespread noncompliance with the minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions ...
By Labor Gazette | Nov 29, 2011
News Release: Suit seeks back wages and job offers for more than 4,000 affected job applicants, cancellation of federal contracts SPRINGDALE, Ark. — The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has filed an administrative complaint against federal contractor Cargill Meat Solutions, ...
By DOT News Wire | Nov 29, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page proposed rule on Nov. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2011
The US Interior Department published a four page proposed rule on Nov. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
