News from June 2007
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: The National Park Service at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will host a book signing with Anna Egan Smucker, author of the children’s book To Keep the South Manitou Light at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire on Thursday, July 5th from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: I want to thank Chairman Baucus for holding this hearing and for working with me now and for the past several years to protect middle-class taxpayers from the Alternative Minimum Tax. This hearing is especially important in light of my often-stated view that the Alternative Minimum Tax is generally not...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: HEALTH IT PASSES SENATE COMMITTEE. United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee reports billWASHINGTON, D.C-Today, the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and PensionsCommittee passed The Wired for Health Care Quality Act. Chairman Edward M. Kennedy andSenators Mike Enzi, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and Ranking Member Jim McCrery (R-LA) issued the following joint statement today following House passage of H.R. 1830 as amended, providing for an eight-month extension of the Andean Trade Preference Programs...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: The closure orders to protect nesting peregrine falcons on three cliffs within Acadia National Park are being rescinded and trails at Valley Cove and Jordan Cliff (i.e., northern section of the Flying Mountain and Jordan Cliff Trails) will be opened on Thursday, June 28, 2007, Acadia National Park Superintendent...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and PensionsCommittee passed The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act. The measure issponsored by Chairman Edward M. Kennedy, Senators Orrin Hatch, Hillary Clinton, Mike Enziand Charles Schumer. The legislation includes...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: Petrified Forest National Park Learning Center Lecture Series, July 2007.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: Jane Haigh, author of several popular books on Alaskan history, is giving a presentation titled “Cultural Resources and the Idea of Wilderness" on Thursday, July 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the Denali Visitor Center, located at Mile 1.2 of the Denali Park Road. She will share her unique and interesting perspective of the interface between cultural resources and wilderness in Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Crews at Glacier National Park are confidently moving towards an anticipated July 1st opening of the entire Going-to-the Sun Road (Sun Road), weather permitting, park officials announce. The projection for the entire road opening occurs as final preparations are underway to complete...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: Lake Mead Recreation Area Superintendent William K Dickenson announces changes to Aids to Navigation in the Overton Arm area of Lake Mead. Due to lowering water levels, the following Navigation Aid has been established.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: The pale potato cyst nematode (Globodera pallida) has been positively identified by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators in soil at a potato processing plant in eastern Idaho. This is the first time this pest-now of great concern in Europe-has been found in the United States.
By State Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: The recent U.S. troop escalation in Iraq simply is not working. We are now the proverbial man wandering the barren desert desperately in search of an oasis that doesn’t exist.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: Contact... Marc Morano 202-224-5762 marc_morano@epw.senate.gov Matt Dempsey 202-224-9797 matthew_dempsey@epw.senate.gov Opening Statement of Senator James Inhofe Subcommittee on Transportation, Infrastructure, Security, and Water Quality hearing on “Protecting Water Quality at America's Beaches" June ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Wednesday continued their investigation into the threat of homegrown violent Islamist radicalization with an examination of the factors inspiring extremism, European...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: Special Event: Visit By Vice President Cheney.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley is asking for an accounting of various actions and expenditures at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the 27 institutes and centers of the National Institutes of Health.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairman and Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced legislation today that would tax as corporations all publicly traded partnerships that directly or indirectly derive income from investment...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON James Steven Griles, the former Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior (DOI), has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for obstructing the U.S. Senates investigation into the corruption allegations surrounding former Washington lobbyist Jack A. Abramoff, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The United States has filed a False Claims Act lawsuit against Toyobo Co. Ltd. of Japan and its American subsidiary, Toyobo America Inc., for their roles in the manufacture and sale of defective ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2007
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, JUNE 26, 2007 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON The former president and co-owner of Domecq Importers Inc. of Larchmont, N.Y., and Old Greenwich, Conn., today pleaded guilty and has agreed to serve 10 years in prison for conspiring to commit tax fraud and to defraud Allied Domecq PLC, the Department of Justice announced.
