News from January 2012

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2012
News Release: Dear Secretary Geithner: President Obama, today, certified that the debt subject to limit is within $100 billion of the debt limit and that further borrowing is requested. According to the Jan. 10, 2012 Daily Treasury Statement, the amount of debt subject to the limit was $25 million below the statutory...

By DOL Newswire | Jan 12, 2012
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans today expressed strong opposition to the administration’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. In a letter to President Obama, committee Republicans describe the board’s recent job destroying actions and challenge the constitutionally suspect manner in which the president made the three recess appointments...

By DOE Newswire | Jan 12, 2012
News Release: I must have been mad. I never knew what I had. Until I threw it all away . Canada’s newfound coziness with China conjures a Bob Dylan classic about a squandered relationship. Dylan sang, “But I was cruel; I treated her like a fool; I threw it all away." Sounds a lot like the U.S. relationship with Canada.

By EPA Newswire | Jan 12, 2012
News Release: I must have been mad. I never knew what I had. Until I threw it all away . Canada’s newfound coziness with China conjures a Bob Dylan classic about a squandered relationship. Dylan sang, “But I was cruel; I treated her like a fool; I threw it all away." Sounds a lot like the U.S. relationship with Canada.

By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 11, 2012—The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that on Dec. 1, the Government of Japan approved Rainbow papaya for commercial shipment to Japan. The Rainbow papaya is genetically engineered to be resistant to the papaya ringspot virus. This announcement marks the beginning of a new chapter for Hawaiian papaya growers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Keoje Marine Co. Ltd. and two engineers from the M/T Keoje Tiger pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Honolulu to environmental crimes violations, announced Environment and Natural Resources Division Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno and U.S. Attorney Florence T. Nakakuni.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Fifty individuals were charged in an indictment unsealed today in Puerto Rico with conspiracy to commit identification fraud in connection with their alleged roles in a scheme to traffic the identities of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens and corresponding identity documents. The charges were announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Phillip Oliver, 46, an inmate at the Muskogee County, Okla., Jail (MCJ) pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Muskogee to one count of conspiracy related to the orchestrated beating of a fellow inmate at the behest of an unnamed jailer on duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury today convicted Ladmarald Cates, 44, a former Milwaukee Police Officer, of a civil rights charge stemming from his July 16, 2010, sexual assault of a Milwaukee woman, the Justice Department announced.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 11, 2012
News Release: CLEVELAND – The U.S. Department of Labor has obtained a consent order and judgment requiring Harry Fishleigh III, president and part owner of defunct North Coast Wood Products Inc. in Mentor, to restore a total of $114,176.86 to the company’s profit-sharing plan, for which he was the trustee. The order ...
By DOT News Wire | Jan 11, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 11, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 11, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a seven page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 11, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 11, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 11, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jan 11, 2012
The US State Department published a two page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jan 11, 2012
The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2012
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 11, 2012
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.