News from October 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Health and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade held a joint hearing today to examine the Interagency Working Group’s proposed food marketing principles. In 2009, Congress formed an Interagency Working Group, comprised of the U.S. Department...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following statement on the floor of the House of Representatives in support of the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 12, 2011
News Release: MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Christopher B. Dennis, Special Agent in Charge, Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector (HHS-OIG), José A. Gonzalez, IRS Special Agent...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 12, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today welcomed passage of three long-awaited trade pacts that will help create jobs and grow our economy. The agreements with Colombia, Panama, and South Korea passed the House with wide bipartisan margins, opening the door for significant new U.S. exports and paving the way to create an estimated 250,000 American jobs.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 12, 2011
News Release: The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) today posted a new issue of Healthy Animals. This quarterly online newsletter compiles ARS news and expert resources on the health and well-being of agricultural livestock, poultry and fish.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 12, 2011
News Release: On Thursday, October 13 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe, M.D. (R-TN), will hold a hearing entitled “Regulations, Costs, and Uncertainty in Employer Provided Health Care." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today traveled to College Park, Md., to join Governor Martin O’Malley at the University of Maryland in a panel discussion on homeland security enterprise in a post 9/11 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two individuals have been charged in New York for their alleged participation in a plot directed by elements of the Iranian government to murder the Saudi Ambassador to the United States with explosives while the Ambassador was in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Las Vegas woman pleaded guilty today for her role in a scheme to fraudulently gain control of condominium homeowners’ associations (HOA) in the Las Vegas area so that the HOAs would direct business to a certain law firm and construction company, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Integrated Production Services, LLC, (IPS), a Houston-based natural gas and oil drilling contractor, pleaded guilty today to a negligent violation of the Clean Water Act in federal court in Muskogee, Okla., announced Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno for the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice issued the following statement today after the Department of Transportation (DOT) issued its order involving US Airways’ and Delta Airlines’ acquisition of slots at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport and New York’s LaGuardia Airport: “The Antitrust Division ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Dennis Glick of Huntington Valley, Penn., was found guilty today by a federal jury in Philadelphia of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue laws and willfully preparing false tax returns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. District Judge Petrese Tucker presided over the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Billy Wade Carroll, 51, of Dayton, Ohio, was found guilty today in U.S. District Court in Riverside, Calif., for his participation in an online child pornography bulletin board, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. ...
By Fed Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday requested public comment on a proposed regulation implementing the so-called "Volcker Rule" requirements of section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. Section 619 generally contains two prohibitions. First, it prohibits insured depository ...
By Fed Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday requested comment on proposed rules intended to simplify the administration of reserve requirements and reduce administrative and operational costs for both depository institutions and Reserve Banks. The proposals do not affect the stance of monetary policy.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Oct 11, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a two page proposed rule on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
The US Interior Department published a one page proposed rule on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 11, 2011
The US Interior Department published a one page proposed rule on Oct. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
