News from May 2006
By DOE Gazette | May 4, 2006
The US Energy Department published a seven page proposed rule on May 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 4, 2006
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on May 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 4, 2006
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on May 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: Carlsbad Caverns National Park Superintendent John Benjamin announced that the park is developing a management plan and an environmental assessment for the Rattlesnake Springs unit and is seeking public input on issues and concerns.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today introduced legislation that would limit public trustees for Social Security and Medicare to a single four-year term of service. The bill will also codify a requirement for presidential consultation with Congress on...
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senators Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman, Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, have notified Senate leadership that they are left with no alternative but to oppose allowing the conference report on H.R. 889, the Coast Guard Reauthorization Act, to proceed to a final vote on the floor unless a provision in the report that runs directly contrary to Section 388 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 is fixed.
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: Who: Full Committee When: Wednesday, May 10 at 11:30 a.m. Where: SD-366 Why: To consider the nomination of Dirk Kempthorne to be Secretary of the Interior.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: I rise to speak in favor of the bipartisan amendment that Finance Committee Chairman Grassley has just offered. As Ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, I have worked with Chairman Grassley to develop this amendment. The amendment provides $38 million to the Social Security Administration (SSA) - fully paid for - to reimburse the costs SSA incurred as a result of Hurricane Katrina and other hurricanes of the 2005 season.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, introduced tax legislation to boost American competitiveness through increased research, experimentation and innovation. The Research Competitiveness Act of 2006 will facilitate applied and basic research...
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today won Senate approval of an amendment to provide $38 million in supplemental funds to the Social Security Administration this year. That money would reimburse Social Security for administrative expenditures incurred as...
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Idaho Governor and Interior Secretary Nominee Dirk Kempthorne testified before the Energy and Natural Resources Committee today as part of his confirmation process.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: In an effort to fulfill its mission to preserve and protect the cultural resources relating to the copper mining industry of the Keweenaw Peninsula, Keweenaw National Historical Park has worked in partnership with Coppertown Museum and the Americana Foundation to complete a national register nomination...
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: Now that the warmer weather has arrived, Piping Plovers have returned to their breeding grounds on the shores of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Lakeshore). The birds are courting and establishing territories in preparation for nesting. Piping Plovers continue to be listed as an endangered species...
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2006
News Release: Joint Statement of U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and John Thune Tariff on Imported Ethanol Thursday, May 4, 2006.
By DOE Newswire | May 3, 2006
News Release: Who: Public Lands & Forests Subcommittee
By USDA Newswire | May 3, 2006
News Release: An ecologist with the Agricultural Research Service in Urbana, Ill., is experimenting with a novel method for enlisting nature's seed-eaters-birds, rodents and insects, in this case-to help fight giant ragweed, velvetleaf and giant foxtail, all major pests of Midwestern corn and soybean crops.
By Commerce Newswire | May 3, 2006
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Committee on Finance, is the lead Senate negotiator in Senate-House talks on tax relief. Grassley has pushed for the Senate’s relief package on the Alternative Minimum Tax, and the negotiators have agreed in principle to a package containing the Senate’s AMT relief package. Grassley made the following comment on partisan criticism of the agreement in principle.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ENRD (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) and contractor Scarsella Brothers, Inc. have agreed to pay $895,000 for violations of the Clean Water Act during the construction of the Bellgrove-Mica realignment of Highway 95 near Lake Coeur d'Alene in Northern Idaho, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON, D.C. A businessman who paid bribes to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives has pleaded guilty to a two-count criminal information charging him with conspiracy to commit bribery and ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2006
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV TAX (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Gulf Coast Return Preparer Allegedly Fabricated Tax Deductions WASHINGTON, D.C. The Justice Department announced today that a federal court has permanently barred Ray Robert Ladner, of Pass Christian, Mississippi, ...
