News from September 2011
By DOL Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) released the following statements today after the Department of Labor announced it would reexamine its regulation on the definition of fiduciary...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In response to a proposal outlined by President Obama on the United States Postal Service, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which oversees the Postal Service, issued the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: Be Our Guest at Colorado National Monument on.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2011
News Release: On National Public Lands Day, Saturday, Sept. 24, 2011, more than a hundred volunteers will assemble at Mount Rainier National Park to plant native plants, maintain trails, and rededicate the Glacier Basin Trail after four summers of repairs. The work day will cap a highly successful season during which about 2,000 people have contributed to the protection of Mount Rainier's natural and cultural treasures and helped serve its visitors.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee today insisted to Republicans on the committee that any recommendations made to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction be made in a transparent process involving the entire committee. The request follows...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement regarding President Obama's "Buffett Rule" proposal to require a minimum tax rate on millionaires...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2011
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA -- September 17 is the date for "Campfires and Candlelight," Fort Vancouver National Historic Site's largest annual costumed re-enactment and signature community event.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2011
News Release: You are invited to your national parks free of charge in recognition of National Public Lands Day! Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument Superintendent Steve Riley announced today that no entrance fee will be charged for visiting Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument on Sept. 24, 2011. The multi-agency...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2011
News Release: In early spring 2011 Arren and Allison Swift started thinking of what they would like to do this summer. Arren is a teacher at Seminole High School in Seminole, FL and his wife Allison is a recent graduate of the University of South Florida. Vacations would be nice but would cost too much. Learning something...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2011
News Release: New York -- The National Park Service (NPS) today re-opened Hamilton Grange National Memorial, the home of founding father Alexander Hamilton following a five-year closure to move and restore it to its original appearance. The Grange, believed to be the only home Hamilton ever owned, is the only memorial...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton today announced a new initiative to streamline the international student visa process for foreign students ...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2011
News Release: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today the launch of the Study in the States website, a new online initiative encouraging the best and the brightest international students to study in the United States–enhancing the nation's economic, scientific and technological competitiveness. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Six current and former members of the U.S. military have been charged a 41-count indictment in San Antonio for allegedly defrauding various U.S. military components and their contractor of approximately $127,000 by fraudulently obtaining recruiting bonuses, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – BP Amoco Corp. (formerly Amoco Corp.), Amoco Production Company, BP Exploration & Oil Inc., BP America Inc., Atlantic Richfield Company and Vastar (the BP defendants) have agreed to pay the United States $20.5 million to resolve claims that the companies violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying royalties owed on natural gas produced from federal and Indian leases, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Miami resident Lawrence Duran, the owner of a mental health care company, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), was sentenced today to 50 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 16, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabia-based Tamimi Global Company Ltd (TAFGA) has agreed to pay the United States $13 million to resolve criminal and civil allegations that the company paid kickbacks to a Kellogg Brown & Root Inc. (KBR) employee and illegal gratuities to a former U.S. Army sergeant, in connection ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 16, 2011
News Release: Commerce Department’s National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship helps drive university commitments to advance research commercialization At a ceremony at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, President Obama today signed the America Invents Act into law, representing ...
By USDA Wire | Sep 16, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a one page proposed rule on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2011
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 16, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Sept. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
