News from February 2007
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: Superintendent Jim LaRock announced today that Pipestone National Monument will implement an entrance fee increase effective Jan. 1, 2008. This increase was authorized by Congress as the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act and signed by President Bush in December of 2004. This Act replaces earlier...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., said Thursday he would introduce legislation requiring the Department of Homeland Security to implement recommendations to provide a safe haven to and improve the treatment of asylum seekers being held...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today reminded Korea’s ambassador to the U.S. that Korea’s continued refusal to accept imports of U.S. beef threatens congressional support for a trade agreement between our two countries. Baucus, Grassley and a number of...
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: Contact: Lynne Weil, 202-225-5021. ADVISORY. A hearing of the Committee on Foreign Affairs: DATE: Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. TIME: 10:00 a.m. SUBJECT: Afghanistan on the Brink: Where Do We Go From Here?. LOCATION: Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building. WITNESSES: Panel...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: Acting National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Regional Director Chrysandra Walter has announced the selection of Debbie Conway as Fort Stanwix National Monument superintendent. She succeeds acting superintendents Jeffrey Collins and Ken Mabery who guided the park in temporary assignments until a permanent placement was selected.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today reminded Korea’s ambassador to the U.S. that Korea’s continued refusal to accept imports of U.S. beef threatens congressional support for a trade agreement between our two countries. Baucus, Grassley and a number of...
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC -- Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, made the following statement in response to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s establishment of a senior-level task force on Iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: Dear Acting Administrator Norwalk: The Committee on Finance has exclusive jurisdiction over the Medicare program in the Senate, and the Committee on Ways and Means has jurisdiction over the Medicare program in the House of Representatives. Accordingly, we have a responsibility to the more than 40 million...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: Dear Acting Administrator Norwalk: The Committee on Finance has exclusive jurisdiction over the Medicare program in the Senate, and the Committee on Ways and Means has jurisdiction over the Medicare program in the House of Representatives. Accordingly, we have a responsibility to the more than 40 million...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: With genomic "maps" in hand, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are plotting new ways to protect cattle from cellular attack by Anaplasmosis marginale.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: Meteorologist David Sweet, with the NOAA National Weather Service in Oxnard, California, will be the February speaker for the “From Shore to Sea" lecture series. His presentation will highlight how different weather patterns, like El Niño, affect ocean conditions of the Channel Islands and surrounding waters.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: Superintendent Jim Milestone announced that Whiskeytown National Recreation Area is planning a series of hazardous fuel reduction projects this winter and spring. As weather conditions permit, Whiskeytown will cut brush and burn piles along shaded fuelbreaks and burn two prescribed fire units. These projects are part of Whiskeytown’s commitment to reducing hazardous fuels in the park and adjacent communities to reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfire.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: The National Park Service site at Independence, Missouri would see a slight increase in operational funding as a result of the President’s $2.4 billion National Park Service budget for Fiscal Year 2008. The budget proposal calls for the largest ever increase in park operations funding and leverages public-private investments that could generate as much as $3 billion to help the parks prepare for their 100th birthday in 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: On Friday, March 9, the National Park Service will present the first of three workshops to introduce their award-winning teaching kit to Maine middle school teachers. The kit, titled Passamaquoddy History and Culture: A Traveling Teaching Kit for Grades 5-8, won third place in the curriculum category of the National Association for Interpretation’s annual media award competition in 2006.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2007
News Release: On Friday, March 9, the National Park Service will present the first of three workshops to introduce their award-winning teaching kit to Maine middle school teachers. The kit, titled Passamaquoddy History and Culture: A Traveling Teaching Kit for Grades 5-8, won third place in the curriculum category of the National Association for Interpretation’s annual media award competition in 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON A federal grand jury in Trenton, N.J. has indicted three former U.S. Army officers and two U.S. civilians for their role in a bribery, fraud and money laundering scheme involving the theft of millions of dollars from the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq, Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The Justice Department today reached a Fair Housing Act settlement with a group of developers, builders, architects and engineers related to the design and construction of two Memphis-area ...
By Labor Gazette | Feb 7, 2007
News Release: Archived News Release — Caution: Information may be out of date.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 7, 2007
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2007
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
