News from October 2019
By DOL Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Today, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Human Services, delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at the subcommittee's hearing to examine H.R. 2694, the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Chair of the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statements regarding the Trump administration’s proposal to increase water deliveries through the federal Central Valley Project (CVP) by weakening longstanding protections for endangered species in the ecologically fragile San Francisco Bay Delta.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2019 — Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the launch of the Centers of Community Prosperity (CCP), designed to increase the capacity of rural and underserved communities across the country. The program is administered by the USDA Office of Partnerships and Public Engagement (OPPE).
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: (Orangeburg, SC, Oct. 22, 2019) – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has invested $9,750,000 in high-speed broadband infrastructure that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for 3,911 rural households in South Carolina. This is one of many funding announcements in the first round of USDA’s ReConnect Pilot Program investments.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York has ordered 15 individuals and companies to permanently cease their involvement with fraudulent mailings. According to a complaint filed by the United States in November 2018, the defendants mailed, or assisted the mailing of, thousands of solicitations ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: A Virginia political consultant who served as the treasurer of multiple Political Action Committees (PACs) pleaded guilty today to lying to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) about more than $32,000 in payments of PAC money that he directed to himself and a close friend.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: A Bloomfield, Michigan, biodiesel fuel dealer pleaded guilty today to filing a false income tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider of the Eastern District of Michigan.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the initiation of a circumvention inquiry into imports of steel concrete reinforcing steel bar from Mexico, to determine if imports of rebar that are bent at one or both ends circumvent the existing antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) orders.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Thank you to the American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce for organizing this event. And congratulations on the rapid expansion of your membership to more than three times as many members today as you had three years ago. That reflects the growing commercial partnership between our countries.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the affirmative final determinations in the antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations of imports of aluminum wire and cable from China, finding that exporters from this country have sold aluminum wire and cable at less than fair ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: BAYONET POINT, FL – After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD), Bayonet Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning LLC – based in Bayonet Point, Florida – has paid $33,795 in back wages and liquidated damages to 57 employees for violating overtime and recordkeeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
By Labor Gazette | Oct 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Consistent with President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 13847, Strengthening Retirement Security in America, the U.S. Department of Labor today announced a proposed rule to allow online retirement plan disclosures to reduce printing and mail expenses for job creators and make disclosures more readily accessible and useful for America’s workers.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Oct 22, 2019
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2019
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Oct 22, 2019
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Oct 22, 2019
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Oct 22, 2019
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
