News from May 2006
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., warned Thursday of an active 2006 hurricane season, not just for the Gulf Coast and the Carolinas, but also for the northeast, including Connecticut. In remarks delivered at a daylong homeland security summit...
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-ME) and Ranking Member Joe Lieberman (D-CT) announced today that the Committee approved by voice vote the nominations of R. David Paulison to be Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Lurita Alexis Doan to be Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: This week the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) awarded grants totaling $4.5 million to five organizations affiliated with NIST's Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) to assist manufacturers in Gulf Coast regions hard hit by last year's hurricanes.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: SANTA CRUZ ISLAND, CA - Today, biologists introduced six juvenile bald eagles from the San Francisco Zoo to their new home on Santa Cruz Island. These six birds are among the last group of bald eagles to be released on Santa Cruz Island as part of an effort to re-establish bald eagles on the northern Channel Islands.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently added 150 new methods-nicknamed "recipes"-to a database already containing 255 procedures for analyzing specific synthetic polymers using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry. The recipes...
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley today applauded the Treasury Department for its decision to return three years of federal excise taxes on long-distance calls, and said he intends to have the Finance Committee consider legislation to abolish the tax all together.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: Background Fact Sheet on Section 911 Prepared by Chairman Grassley’s Finance Committee Staff.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee today applauded a Treasury Department decision to provide refunds on the Federal telephone excise tax, and called for updating of the nation’s telecommunications statutes.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: Dear Secretary Chao: We are writing to you in response to the recent decision by the Department of Labor to certify three groups of software workers for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) benefits, as reported in the Federal Register on April 11, 2006. The Department's decision to allow, for the first...
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - A GAO report released today reveals significant gaps in information on how effectively the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program is serving American workers who lost their jobs due to international trade. U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member of the Senate committee that...
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: An improved technique for culturing cells, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), may enable new, fundamental insights into the behavior of neuronal cells.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: Lake Mead has more than 500 miles of shoreline and the water elevation is 1,132 vertical feet. The current water temperature is 74 degrees. Lake Mohave has 250 miles of shoreline and the water elevation is 638 vertical feet. The current water temperature is 64 degrees. There are a wide range of recreational...
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee today applauded a Treasury Department decision to provide refunds on the Federal telephone excise tax, and called for updating of the nation’s telecommunications statutes.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2006
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed an improved method for measuring basic properties of complex fuel mixtures like gasoline or jet fuel. The new apparatus for measuring distillation properties produces significantly more detailed and accurate data...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A former Michigan school official and his wife were arrested today for their alleged role in a fraudulent scheme to obtain almost $7.3 million from Ecorse public schools and the federal E-Rate ...
By Labor Gazette | May 24, 2006
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.
By Labor Gazette | May 24, 2006
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on May 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 24, 2006
The US Agriculture Department published a one page rule on May 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | May 24, 2006
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on May 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 24, 2006
The US Agriculture Department published a four page rule on May 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
