News from August 2007
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC‹ Today, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health,Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement in response to thepassage by the HELP Committee of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: Could getting enough dietary vitamin K help keep osteoarthritis at bay? Study volunteers with the highest blood levels of the main form of vitamin K-phylloquinone-were associated with the lowest risk among participants of having osteoarthritis in the hands and knees. The study was conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded scientists.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Chaired by Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) and Ranking Member Susan Collins (R-ME) has approved bipartisan legislation she authored that will strengthen competition in federal contracting, add transparency to the process, and help curtail...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: It is difficult to believe at first, how could something so simple and harmless as light be considered a pollutant? After all, the day is full of light, so how could a little light at night be so bad? The answer is simply that artificial light at night is out of place, so even a small amount of light...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) today announced that they will name Edward Kleinbard as the next Chief of Staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT).
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives today passed an expacnsive health care bill to provide insurance coverage for millions of children and improve and strengthen Medicare for America`s seniors and people with disabilities. It was approved by a vote of 225 to 204.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said today that he is “encouraged" by an updated strategy from the Treasury Department to reduce the $345 billion annual tax gap. Baucus has long called for a comprehensive and credible plan from Treasury and the Internal Revenue...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) is highlighting a study that he requested which estimates that at least seven thousand individuals misused Social Security payments they received on behalf of beneficiaries who are unable to handle their own affairs. The report indicates...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, led by Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Wednesday overwhelmingly approved the nomination of Jim Nussle to be the next Director of the Office of Management and Budget and reported out...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today introduced legislation that will significantly bolster the U.S.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following remarks following President Bush's statement threatening a veto of the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA)...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2007
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ - This past summerPetrified Forest National Park hired fourteen youth from areas near the park in a Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program. “Students were recruited from local high schools to assist with a number of critical park projects," said Acting Superintendent Brad Traver.
