NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–29 April 2010 – Iran can use next week’s global gathering on disarmament at United Nations Headquarters to reassure other States of its peaceful nuclear intentions, the forum’s chair said today as he urged countries to exchange ideas on how to cut the world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons. Ambassador[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010. “It is the federal government’s responsibility to enforce the law and secure our borders, as well as to set clear rules and priorities for future immigration. The continued failure of the federal government to fix the broken immigration system will leave the door open to a[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010. INDEX: DEPARTMENT Secretary Clinton’s bilateral meeting with FM Sikorski of Poland Secretary Clinton addresses the American Jewish Committee this evening Secretary Clinton’s conversation with Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo Assistant Secretary Blake in Bhutan U.S team in Moscow to discuss adoption concerns National day of mourning[Read More…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 29, 2010.  U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration spokesperson Amy Louviere today issued the following statement regarding a roof collapse at Dotiki Mine in Hopkins County, Ky.: “On April 28, at approximately 10:40 p.m. CDT, MSHA received word of a roof collapse at the Dotiki Mine[Read More…]