Federal Communications Commission approves use of Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System in the United States

Federal Communications Commission approves use of Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System in the United States

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Washington, DC - - (November 15, 2018) - - Today, the Federal Communications Commission granted in part the European Commission’s request for a waiver of the Commission’s rules so that non-Federal devices in the United States may access specific signals transmitted from the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) known as Galileo. With today’s action, consumers and industry in the United States will now be permitted to access c...

Federal Reserve Board Approves Fee Schedule for Federal Reserve Bank Priced Services

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(November 16, 2018) - - The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced the approval of fee schedules, effective January 2, 2019, for payment services the Federal Reserve Banks provide to depository institutions (priced services). The Reserve Banks project that they will recover 100.9 percent of their priced services costs in 2019. The Reserve Banks expect to fully recover actual and imputed expenses, including profit that...

Joint Statement on U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership

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Washington, DC - - (November 16, 2018) - - Today, the U.S. Department of State's Office of the Spokesperson published the following:

"The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Ukraine on the occasion of the 2018 U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission Meeting in Washington, DC."

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin met November 16, 2018, in Washington, D.C., to hold a plenary session of the U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Partnership Commission. The plenary meeting marked the tenth anniversary of the U.S.–Ukraine Charter on Strategic Partnership, a document that enshrines the principles...

Statement from USDA Secretary Perdue and FDA Commissioner Gottlieb on the Regulation of Cell-cultured Food Products from Cell Lines of Livestock and Poultry

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(November 16, 2018) - - Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the following "Statement from USDA Secretary Perdue and FDA Commissioner Gottlieb on the regulation of cell-cultured food products from cell lines of livestock and poultry": Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration held a publ...

National Transportation Safety Board Issues 5 Urgent Safety Recommendations as Investigation of Merrimack Valley Gas Explosions, Fires Continues

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Washington, DC - - (November 15, 2018) - - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued five urgent safety recommendations in a safety recommendation report issued Thursday. The recommendations made are based on investigators' findings in the NTSB's ongoing investigation of the Sept. 13, 2018, series of explosions and fires in the Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts, that killed one person and sent at least 21 others to area hos...

Joint EU-U.S. Statement following the EU-U.S. Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting

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(November 9, 2018) - - Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published the following information: On 9 November 2018, the EU-U.S. Ministerial Meeting on Justice and Home Affairs took place in Washington DC. The United States of America hosted the meeting and was represented by the U.S. Acting Attorney General Matthew G. Whitaker and Secretary for Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen. The European Union was represented by the Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos, ...

U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee and National In-Flight Sexual Misconduct Task Force

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Washington, DC - - (November 15, 2018) - - U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that she has reconstituted the Aviation Consumer Protection Advisory Committee (ACPAC or Committee) and established the National In-Flight Sexual Misconduct Task Force (Task Force) as an ACPAC Subcommittee. The ACPAC will evaluate current aviation consumer protection programs and provide...

Remarks by Medicare and Medicaid Administrator Seema Verma at the Alliance for Connected Care Telehealth Policy Forum for Health Systems

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(November 15, 2018) - - Today, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the following "Remarks by Administrator Seema Verma at the Alliance for Connected Care Telehealth Policy Forum for Health Systems":

Remarks by Administrator Seema Verma at the Alliance for Connected Care Telehealth Policy Forum for Health Systems
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Thank you Krista for that kind introduction, and thank you all for joining us today. It’s a privilege to be here with the Alliance for Connected Care. I’m glad I got to meet with your organization early in my tenure – and I’m particularly happy to continue our conversation on how we can make the promise of connected, coordinated care a reality by building it on a foundation of innovation. At CMS, we’ve been working to lay that foundation, including through supporting innovation in health c...

Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim Remarks at the American Bar Association Antitrust Section Fall Forum

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Washington, DC - - (November 15, 2018) - - Today, the U.S. Department of Justice published the following speech made by Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim at the American Bar Association Antitrust Section Fall Forum:

“November Rain”: Antitrust Enforcement on Behalf of American Consumers and Taxpayers

Good morning, and thank you for the kind introduction. I’d like to thank the American Bar Association for your invitation to this year’s Fall Forum and Deb Garza for her leadership of the Section this year. I find it hard to believe it’s been only a little more than a year since I was confirmed as AAG and spoke at last year’s Fall Forum. Over the past year, the Antitrust Division has been hard at work on behalf of American consumers. We made a number of significant enforcement actions this week, but before I turn to those, I’d like to update you on a few recent changes in the Front Office. First, Michael Murray recently joined us from the Deputy Attorney General’s office, whe...

Federal Housing Administration Releases 2018 Annual Report to Congress

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Capital Reserves remain above statutory minimum for fourth straight year


Washington, DC - - (November 15, 2018) - - The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) today released its 2018 Annual Report to Congress on the economic condition of the agency's Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund (MMI Fund). FHA reports that at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, the MMI Fund had a total Economic Net Worth of $34.8 billion and a Capital Reserve Ratio that remains above the statutory minimum for a fourth consecutive year. The MMI Fund supports FHA’s single-family mortgage insurance programs, including all forward mortgage purchase and refinance transactions, as well as mortgage...