News from March 2013
By DOT News Wire | Mar 13, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on March 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 13, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a four page rule on March 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 13, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a six page proposed rule on March 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 13, 2013
The US Energy Department published a four page proposed rule on March 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives today approved the Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013 (H.R. 890), legislation that will prevent the Obama administration from waiving the work requirements at the heart of the 1996 welfare reform law. Additionally, the legislation included an extension of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program through Dec. 31, 2013. H.R. 890 was approved with bipartisan support in a vote of 246 to 181.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: I want to thank you, Chairman Nunes, for holding this hearing on India. I think it is an important hearing to start off the subcommittee’s work in this Congress. In a political climate that is often extremely partisan, it is important to highlight where there are areas of bipartisan consensus. On the question of India and our trading relationship with that country, I think there is much agreement.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans, led by Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN), today introduced the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act (H.R. 1120). The legislation responds to the ongoing legal chaos surrounding ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: "We never know the worth of water till the well is dry." Let us hope we have some answers before our nation's well fails us.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Senate sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP),today introduced two bills that will expand access to captioning and image narration in movie theaters and airplanes.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and nine other Senators, introduced the Smarter Borrowing Act, a bill to protect and empower student loan borrowers with...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Sroufe Presented a Tax Return to the IRS Falsely Claiming a $1.7 Million Refund.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: We saw firsthand Sandy's devastation, which tore apart communities, as well as the massive reconstruction effort underway in lower Manhattan and across the region.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - On March 12, the United States reached a civil settlement with the Shaughnessy-Kaplan Rehabilitation Hospital (doing business as Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital for Continuing Medical Care North Shore, or “Spaulding"), resolving allegations that it inappropriately billed Medicare for certain days of patient care in violation of Medicare’s “midnight rule.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Fortunato Perri, 76, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to taking part in a fraud scheme involving nine other judges at Philadelphia Traffic Court. Perri pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, one count of mail fraud, and two counts of wire fraud. He faces a possible advisory sentencing guideline range of zero to six months in prison, before variances or departures.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park is home to one of the most dynamic and hard-working volunteer programs in the National Park Service. Volunteers augment park staff in day-to-day operations and on special projects. In 2012, 1,670 volunteers served over 102,000 hours at the park, making it one of the largest volunteer programs in the National Park Service. In 2013, these numbers will likely increase.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: Grand Teton National Park officials plan to implement changes in the 2013 elk reduction program (ERP)-a National Park Service (NPS) wildlife management program conducted in collaboration with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) and designed to help regulate the Jackson elk herd. These changes will be made in part to reduce the chance of grizzly bear-hunter encounters.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: The last several years have brought repeated and devastating weather events to many areas of the country, testing the ability of local communities to respond, rebuild and recover.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - With the Senate set to consider its first budget blueprint in four years, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) says that Senate Democrats are “cherry picking" a few tax expenditures as a means of trying to raise taxes on the American people, while ignoring the growing price tag of the premium subsidies - tax credits to defray the cost of purchasing health insurance - in the President’s health law.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Pensacola, Fla., who came to be known as the "Bucket List Bandit", pleaded guilty in federal court in Erie, Pa., to charges of bank robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
