News published on Federal Newswire in January 2012

News from January 2012


In Letter to Treasury, Hatch Requests Information on “Extraordinary Measures” It Can Take Before Debt Limit Reached

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...


Committee Republicans Urge President to Work with Congress on Reforms to Rein in NLRB

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...


Canada Looking to China as U.S. Says We're Just Not That Into You

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.


Canada Looking to China as U.S. Says We're Just Not That Into You

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.


USDA Expands Export Opportunities for Hawaiian Rainbow Papaya

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.


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.


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 ...


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.


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.


US Labor Department recovers more than $114,000 for profit-sharing plan of defunct Mentor, Ohio, company

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 ...


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a seven page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a two page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.