News from October 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives declared another victory today in its ongoing battle against destructive regulation with passage of H.R. 2681, the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act. The measure passed the full House with strong bipartisan support by a vote of 262 to 161.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) responded today to news that Jonathan Silver, Executive Director of the Department of Energy’s Loans Programs Office, is resigning. Silver, who was responsible...
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 6, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today released an EPW Committee Majority Staff Report that sets the record straight about the essential contributions that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and landmark environmental ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives declared another victory today in its ongoing battle against destructive regulation with passage of H.R. 2681, the Cement Sector Regulatory Relief Act. The measure passed the full House with strong bipartisan support by a vote of 262 to 161.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn. released the following statement Thursday on House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King’s introduction of legislation to reauthorize the Department of Homeland Security.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2011
News Release: Davis Applauds Passage of Bipartisan Child Welfare Bill and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Extension.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) today issued the following joint statement after the Senate voted 62-38 to move forward to crack down on China’s manipulation of its currency. China’s currency is undervalued by an estimated 28 percent, costing one-million plus American jobs, mainly in the manufacturing sector.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2011
News Release: Davis Calls for Best Ideas to Help People Move from Unemployment Checks to Paychecks.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2011
Release: Dr. Janey Thornton. USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services. During our celebration of National School Lunch Week, millions of children will line up in cafeterias across the country to eat school meals. This year, parents should be encouraged that many more schools will be...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2011
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Park rangers are looking for fun and energetic people to help with cleaning up Lake Mead National Recreation Area. To tackle the park's litter problem, rangers are teaming up with visitors and concessionaires to clean beaches and hold Eco-Dives. Park rangers are also providing a boat and boat driver to the most adventurous volunteers who participate in the park's Operation Zero program, which takes volunteers to remote areas of Lake Mead to cleanup beaches.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2011
News Release: The BLM realigned its field offices' boundary in Lewis and Clark County on October 1. Previously, management of public lands in the county was split between the Butte Field Office and the Lewistown Field Office. The Butte Field Office will now manage all of the public lands in the county.The boundary...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of Attorney General Eric Holder’s call for cost-cutting measures to streamline operations and reduce spending during a time of constrained funding, the Department of Justice today announced that it will realign functions in various offices, lower lease costs by consolidating or reducing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON –Attorney General Eric Holder today joined Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory and Director of the Office of Community Oriented Policing (COPS) Bernard Melekian to announce more than $15 million in grant awards to agencies in Ohio through the 2011 COPS Hiring Program. In total, more than $243 million in grants will be awarded nationwide to 238 law enforcement agencies and municipalities to hire new officers and deputies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Larry Lujan, 33, will receive a life prison sentence for a kidnapping that resulted in the death of a 16-year-old, after a federal jury today announced it could not reach a unanimous decision on whether to impose the death penalty, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales for the District of New Mexico and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON –A Costa Rican company, its president and its auditor were charged in a superseding indictment filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., for their alleged roles in a $670 million fraud scheme involving victims throughout the United States and abroad. The company allegedly sold reinsurance bonds to life settlement companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Delaware man was sentenced today to life plus 10 years in prison for child exploitation offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware Charles M. Oberly, III.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2011
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – Scios Inc., a subsidiary of pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, pleaded guilty today to a misdemeanor violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) for introducing into interstate commerce its heart failure drug, Natrecor, for a use that was not approved by the Food and Drug ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Former New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) Officer Ignatius Hills was sentenced today by U. S. District Court Judge Martin L.C. Feldman to 78 months in prison. Hills pleaded guilty in federal court on June 4, 2010, to misprision of a felony and to conspiring with fellow officers to obstruct ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The most up-to-date employment data and economic news releases from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics and its Employment and Training Administration now can be viewed using a new mobile application.
By DOE Gazette | Oct 5, 2011
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
