News from October 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 25, 2011 - Tomorrow, the House will vote on H.R. 1904, the Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act, which authorizes a fair value land exchange that would open up the third largest undeveloped copper resource in the world. The bill will create thousands of jobs, generate billions in revenue and strengthen our national security by developing our own U.S. copper resources.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In the ongoing effort to conduct oversight of federal spending, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its examination of four government agencies and their efforts to implement the president’s pledge to conduct a “page by page, line by line" review of the federal budget...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), held a hearing to discuss legislation to provide much-needed regulatory certainty to rural America. H.R. 1633, the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act of 2011, will prevent EPA from changing...
By State Newswire | Oct 25, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today’s committee briefing entitled “Deployment of U.S. Forces in Central Africa and Implementation of The Lord’s Resistance Army Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act"...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Energy, the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation, and ConocoPhillips will work together to test innovative technologies for producing methane gas from hydrate deposits on the Alaska North Slope.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — A General Services Administration (GSA) customer service manager was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme related to payments he received for awarding GSA contracts to various government contractors, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — A Utah man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Salt Lake City for his role in a bribery and fraud scheme involving federal procurement contracts, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David B. Barlow for the District of Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Las Vegas attorney pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to fraudulently gain control of condominium homeowners’ associations (HOAs) in the Las Vegas area so that the HOAs would direct business to a certain law firm and construction company, and for his role in a scheme to commit ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — Henry Clay Glaspell, 34, of Arlington, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means to 14 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in February 2011 to a hate crime charge stemming from an arson of a children’s playground at the Dar El-Eman Islamic Center in Arlington in July 2010, the Justice Department announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 24, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced the approval of a notice under section 4 of the Bank Holding Company Act by Westpac Banking Corporation, Sydney, Australia, to engage in certain nonbanking activities in the United States through the acquisition of all the voting shares of JOHCM (USA) General Partner Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, and its foreign parent company, J O Hambro Capital Management Limited, London, England.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 24, 2011
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Corpus Christi Grain Co. in Corpus Christi for six willful and 20 serious violations with total proposed penalties of $258,900. OSHA's Corpus Christi Area Office initiated its inspection at ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 24, 2011
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Corpus Christi Grain Co. in Corpus Christi for six willful and 20 serious violations with total proposed penalties of $258,900. OSHA's Corpus Christi Area Office initiated its inspection at ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 24, 2011
News Release: GRENADA, Miss. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Grenada Stamping and Assembly Inc., doing business as Ice Industries Grenada, for 26 safety violations carrying proposed fines of $113,400. In April, OSHA officials opened an inspection at the facility under the agency's national emphasis program on amputations after learning of a work-related amputation.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 24, 2011
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration announced today that it has reached a settlement with GCR Tire Centers regarding the termination of an off-road tire technician who had complained about unsafe work practices at the Notasulga Quarry in Lee County, Ala.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Oct. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Oct. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Oct. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on Oct. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Oct. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Oct 24, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Oct. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
