News from September 2011
By USDA Newswire | Sep 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Representative Frank Lucas (R-OK), Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, and U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, issued the following statement in response to President Obama's debt plan.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today expressed concern to Energy Secretary Steven Chu as his agency prepares to dole out nearly $9 billion in stimulus loan guarantees that must be finalized by Sept. 30, 2011. Of the $18 billion in loan guarantees made available by the stimulus, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today blasted Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and CFO W.G. Stover for reneging on their written assurances that they would not take the Fifth Amendment while...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) today blasted Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and CFO W.G. Stover for reneging on their written assurances that they would not take the Fifth Amendment while...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 20, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today applauded the U.S. Trade Representative’s filing of a case before the World Trade Organization against China for imposing unfair duties on American chicken products - a move ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senator floor today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, outlined his opposition to the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) amendment to the Generalize System of Preferences (GSP) legislation that is currently being considered...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2011
News Release: (Thousand Oaks, CA) The National Park Service announced that it has acquired one of the three remaining pieces of land necessary to complete the 65-mile Backbone Trail. The trail stretches from Will Rogers State Historic Park in Los Angeles all the way to Point Mugu State Park in Ventura County.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: The North Cascades National Park fire management team is preparing for a potential prescribed burn in the Stehekin Valley. The exact timing will be determined by environmental conditions, such as weather and fuel moisture. Visitors and residents should expect to see smoke. After ignition is complete...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: In honor of National Public Lands Day, the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will offer free backcountry camping and free camping at Alum Ford Campground on Saturday, September 24.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Madison, Wis. - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today traveled to Madison, Wis. to deliver remarks highlighting the role that individuals and communities play in homeland security at the Madison Civics Club 100th Anniversary Commemoration luncheon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Eric Holder today issued the following statement on the release of the 2010 Uniform Crime Report, which showed a decline in violent crime across the United States for the second straight year: “Safe communities are the foundation of our nation’s prosperity and I have made ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to receive bribes from Iraqi contractors involved in the U.S.-funded reconstruction efforts, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia and Assistant Director in Charge James W. McJunkin of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Miami resident Marianella Valera, the owner of a mental health care company, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), was sentenced today to 35 years in prison for orchestrating a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The former president and administrator of a fraudulent physical therapy company in Lakeland, Fla., was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – Federal, state and Bay-area officials announced a comprehensive civil settlement with the owners and operators of the M/V Cosco Busan, resolving all natural resource damages, penalties and response costs that resulted from the ship striking the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007, ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank Remarks at Clean Energy Policy Conference, Alexandria, Virginia Hello, and good morning everyone.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: 11 state agency leaders also sign, agree to memorandums of understanding WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today hosted a ceremony at U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in Washington to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Internal Revenue Service that will improve departmental ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs has announced a $10 million competitive solicitation for cooperative agreements to combat exploitative child labor in Ethiopia, with a focus on the weaving industry and rural areas of the country.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $16,186,108 National Emergency Grant to assist New York with recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Irene.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $2 million National Emergency Grant to create temporary jobs for eligible dislocated workers to assist with cleanup and recovery efforts in North Carolina after major damage was inflicted by Hurricane Irene in August.
