Current Federal-Government News Results

American Hospital Association spends $4.2 million lobbying federal government in 2nd quarter - Washington Examiner
WASHINGTON — American Hospital Association, which represents ... Aside from Congress and the White House, the association also lobbied the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Federal Emergency ...

Minnesota gov: 'Federal government is basically a drug dealer' - News-Democrat
Tim Pawlenty is likening the federal government to a ... Pawlenty's order instructs state agencies to decline "discretionary" involvement with the federal law "unless otherwise required by law or approved by the ...

Federal government's point man downplays risk of leak when Gulf well's cap removed - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
The federal government’s point man on the Gulf of Mexico spill response said Wednesday there is no “significant risk” that more oil will leak into the sea when engineers remove the temporary cap ...

Federal government files complaint against West Mich. farm - WWMT
WEST MICHIGAN (NEWSCHANNEL 3) – The federal government is taking on a West Michigan dairy farm. The FDA is seeking a permanent injunction against Scenic View Dairy of Hamilton. The FDA says the farm sold cows to be ...

NASA Ranked Near Top of the 'Best Places To Work In Federal Government' - Newsblaze.com
NASA has been ranked fifth in the Partnership for Public Service 2010 ratings for the "Best Places to Work in the Federal Government." The 2010 survey is the fifth conducted by the partnership since 2003 ...

Federal government throws up roadblock to Florida's Medicaid reform - Florida Times-Union
Federal health officials want changes to be made to the Medicaid experiment that has put private managed-care companies in charge of covering thousands of patients in Northeast Florida. In a letter last ...

Should the Federal Government Require Allergen Food Labels on All Products? - WebWire
EMSL Analytical, Inc. In 2004 Congress passed the Food Allergen Labeling and Consumer Protection Act (FALCPA). It applies to all foods whose labeling is regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), both ...

Federal government releases monthly unemployment report - msnbc.com
The government's monthly unemployment report is out this morning. Companies added 67,000 workers in August. That's better than the 41,000 expected. Unemployment climbed to 9.6 percent in line with expectations. There ...

Federal Government Asked to Intervene After Quebec Agribusiness Owners Cut a Deal ... - Industrial Distribution
Migrant agricultural workers from Honduras began toiling in Quebec fields this week, after a Quebec farm lobby group and Honduran officials cut a deal to bring the workers to Canada under the federal government's ...

SunPower Solar Technology Selected for Multiple U.S. Federal Government Facilities - Marketwatch
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug 30, 2010 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ:SPWRA) (NASDAQ:SPWRB) today announced that SunPower world-leading solar technology has been selected for installation at several ...