Black Voice News: Black Farmers Push for Approval of Pigford Settlement
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Leah Nylen | September 27, 2010 10:57 am
Attorney General Eric Holder pushes back against an aggressive Rep. Raul Labrador at a Feb. 2 House Oversight Committee hearing on the Fast and Furious gun-tracing operation. "What you have just done is disrespectful," Holder told the Idaho Republican.
"The legislative record of these provisions contains no rationale for providing veterans' benefits to opposite-sex spouses of veterans but not to legally married same-sex spouses of veterans." -- Attorney General Eric Holder in a letter to Congress explaining the DOJ's stance on federal benefits to married same-sex military personnel.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT NEWS RELEASES
- Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Department of Justice African-American History Month Celebration
- Assistant Administrator of Houston Hospital Pleads Guilty to Participating in $116 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme
- South Florida Corrections Officer Sentenced on Federal Civil Rights Charge
- Total Companies to Pay U.S. $15 Million to Resolve Allegations of Royalty Underpayments from Federal and Indian Lands
- Tennessee Couple Plead Guilty to Tax Crimes
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida-Area Halfway House Operator Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison for Participating in Fraud and Kickback Scheme
- Florida Physician Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud
- Virginia Man Accused of Attempting to Bomb U.S. Capitol in Suicide Attack
- New York Resident and His Company Sentenced for Conspiracy to Export Computer-Related Equipment to Iran
- Moex Offshore Agrees to $90 Million Partial Settlement of Liability in Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill