Month: April 2010

Remarks by President Obama in the Rose Garden, April 29, 2010

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010 – 1:54 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everybody.  Hello, everybody.  Please have a seat.  Welcome to the White House.  Welcome to the Rose Garden.  This is an extraordinary occasion, a beautiful day — appropriately so.  So I hate to intrude on it, but before we[Read More…]

MALDEF, ACLU And NILC Announce Future Legal Challenge To Arizona Racial Profiling Law

PHOENIX–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010.  Today, MALDEF, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Arizona and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) held a news conference on the House of Representatives Lawn of the Arizona State Capitol Building in Phoenix, Arizona to announce their future legal challenge to Governor Jan Brewer’s recently[Read More…]

Leading Military Law Expert Sides with Senate Committee on Fort Hood Inquiry Efforts

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2010. A leading, impartial expert on military justice has told Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., that the Committee’s efforts to obtain documents and witnesses on the Fort Hood massacre will pose no problems for the prosecution of[Read More…]

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Kerry Opening Statement At Hearing On The New START Treaty

WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—April 29, 2010. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today released the following statement at a hearing titled, “The Historical and Modern Context for U.S.- Russian Arms Control”: The full text of his statement as prepared is below: Thank you all for coming.  This afternoon, we begin[Read More…]

GAO: US Homeland Defense and Civil Support Needs Improvement

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010.  Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, announced the release of two Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports on homeland defense and civil support. The reports, Department of Defense Interagency Coordination for Its Homeland Defense and Civil Support Missions (GAO 10-364)[Read More…]

House Committee Seeks Details on Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010.  Today Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Henry A. Waxman and Subcommittee Chairman Bart Stupak sent letters to BP America Inc. and Transocean Ltd. regarding recent reports on the failure of the blowout preventer on the Deepwater Horizon rig to shut off the flow[Read More…]

Yamaha Recalls ATVs Due to Crash Hazard

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010.  The following product safety recall was voluntarily conducted by the firm in cooperation with the CPSC. Consumers should stop using the product immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Yamaha All-Terrain Vehicles (ATVs) Units: About 20,000 Manufacturer: Yamaha Motor Corporation U.S.A., of Cypress, Calif. Hazard: The[Read More…]

Senate Democrats Unveil Legislation to Limit Fallout from Supreme Court Ruling that Allows Unlimited Special Interest Spending on Elections

WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010. U.S. Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Russ Feingold (D-WI), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Evan Bayh (D-IN) and Al Franken (D-MN) announced new legislation Thursday to blunt the harmful impacts from the Supreme Court’s decision allowing corporations and other special interests to spend unlimited sums to influence elections. The[Read More…]

SEIU: We Need Balanced, Practical Immigration Solutions More Than Ever

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 29 – Today, Senators Charles Schumer, Robert Menendez and Harry Reid will introduce an immigration reform outline. In anticipation, SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina issued the following statement: “As the eyes of the world focus on Arizona, it is clear that we need balanced, practical immigration solutions more[Read More…]

Proposed Immigration Bill Raises Civil Liberties Concerns, Says ACLU

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 29 – The American Civil Liberties Union has serious reservations about a draft version of a comprehensive immigration reform (CIR) bill summary posted on Politico late Wednesday. Although the ACLU has not seen the full legislative language of the bill, the published draft raises serious civil liberties concerns, including[Read More…]

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