News from July 2007
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: The National Park Service at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will host a book signing and reading with author Martha F. Mothershead and her mother, Illustrator Janet Clarkson, for their children’s book Petoskey Stone Soup. The event will be held at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire on Saturday, July 28th from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The reading will begin at 12:00 noon in the Visitor Center Auditorium.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, along with Sen. Max Baucus, committee chairman, have asked an education loan non-profit group a series of questions about its management, structure, and expenses. The inquiry to EduCap comes after The Washington Post reported...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley wants a watch list created to alert the public about nursing homes nationwide that have repeatedly failed federal health and safety standards.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: Celebrate World Ranger Day at Rocky Mountain National Park! On Tuesday, July 31, park staff will show “The Thin Green Line" an international ranger documentary made by Australian ranger, Sean Willmore. The program will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center auditorium in Rocky Mountain...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight held the first in a series of hearings today on Tax-Exempt Charitable Organizations. The hearing focused on the broad concerns and needs of the charitable sector, and how Congress and the public can continue to support this community. Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA) issued the following opening statement...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: Atlanta, Georgia. The National Park Service Southeast Region announces that Charles Cranfield will serve as Acting Superintendent of Cape Lookout National Seashore, effective July 22, 2007. Cranfield is the second superintendent to temporarily take over the post vacated by Superintendent Bob Vogel, who moved to a new assignment at Grand Teton National Parkin Wyoming in April.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: Dear Commissioner von Eschenbach: As Chairman and Ranking Member of the United States Committee on Finance (Committee), it is our duty under the Constitution to conduct oversight into the actions of the executive branch, including the activities of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Committee...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today applauded the Senate for passing key higher education reforms he said are critical to expand access to college, protect students from bad actors in the student loan industry, and provide students with clear information they need to understand and manage their debts.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., and Senator Hillary Clinton, D-NY, are asking the Government Accountability Office to determine how a man believed to be infected with extensively drug-resistant...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Republican Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) renewed their criticism of the decision by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to shut down its free telephone tax filing service this year. A new report released by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) verifies that discontinuing the TeleFile program created substantial costs and burdens for millions of American taxpayers.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) issued the following statement today in response to unsupportive comments by Republican colleagues about efforts to improve the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: Superintendent William K. Dickinson announces the release of the environmental assessment to evaluate a proposal to construct a government boating repair facility and aids to navigation complex within the Boulder Beach developed area of Lake Mead NRA.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 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., held a hearing Tuesday on the nomination of Jim Nussle to be the next Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Nussle, a former Republican...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: Public Hearing Date: Monday, July 30, 2007.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: OMAHA, Neb.- The fire management staff of the Northern Great Plains Area Park Group, located at Wind Cave National Park in Hot Springs, South Dakota, is the winner of the 2007 Midwest Regional Fuels Award. This annual award is presented to the park unit or group that shows the greatest success in “Outstanding Fire Management Accomplishments." Nineteen of 54 parks in the 13-state National Park Service Midwest Region competed for the 2007 award.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: The National Park Service welcomes the historic schooner LETTIE G. HOWARD to the 19th Annual Salem Maritime Festival on Aug. 4. The vessel will be open for free boarding from 10 am to 6 pm at Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Derby Street, Salem MA.
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today commended the Libyan government for finally releasing six foreign medics who had been falsely accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: Harkers Island, North Carolina. Acting Superintendent Connie Backlund announced today that a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Interim Protected Species Management Plan / Environmental Assessment has been approved. The FONSI was signed on July 13, 2007, and culminates over two years of...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: Mr. President, right now millions of Americans don’t know whether they should be paying an estimated tax because Congress hasn’t passed Alternative Minimum Tax relief. In other words,.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2007
News Release: JUL 24 -- WASHINGTON - The owner of a pharmaceutical wholesale business based in Mexico City and a co-conspirator have been arrested in the United States on drug and money laundering charges, respectively, for allegedly conspiring to aid and abet the manufacturing of methamphetamine, knowing that it would be imported into the United States, the Department of Justice announced today.
