News from June 2007
By State Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC -Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, marked World Refugee Day (June 20) by calling for a dramatic increase in American assistance to Iraqi refugees. There are over four million refugees in the region and internally displaced people in Iraq, but the President has only pledged to admit 7,000 of them during this fiscal year.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C-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 United States Senate of the Improving Head Start Act.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: Every year, nesting female sea turtles come to lay their eggs on the Outer Banks which lie near the northern limit of the nesting range for loggerhead, green, and leatherback turtles. In approximately two months, if all goes well, the eggs will hatch and hatchlings will emerge from the sand at night and head for the ocean, finding their way by the relatively lighter contrast of the surfline to the surrounding background.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: Today, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management approved proposals for the commodity and crop insurance programs for the 2007 Farm Bill. Congressman Bob Etheridge of North Carolina is the Chairman of the Subcommittee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) issued the following remarks today on the status of legislation to extend trade preferences to Andean nations...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: It used to be that tracking the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa-one of the most serious threats to the California wine industry-was as challenging as teasing out the fine, commingling aromas of a complex Bordeaux.
By State Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: For the past six years, as the United States has focused attention on far-away crises, we have largely ignored our own neighborhood. Now we are paying for it dearly with a severe loss of influence and prestige. The administration put South America somewhere slightly ahead of Antarctica on its priority list. Now, under our very noses, our neighbors are staging a mini-revolt.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today held a hearing to examine the impact that juvenile diabetes has had on children and their families, the economic costs of caring for people with diabetes, and the promising breakthroughs in juvenile diabetes research...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins today chaired a hearing to examine the impact that juvenile diabetes has had on children and their families, the economic costs of caring for people with diabetes, and the promising breakthroughs in juvenile diabetes research that could lead to better treatments or a cure for...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Republican Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today called on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to base any planned cuts to certain Medicare hospital reimbursement rates on actual, not speculative, changes in...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: My heart goes out this morning to the families of the nine fallen firefighters in Charleston, andto my colleagues Senator Graham and DeMint and to the people of Charleston. These fallenheroes made the ultimate sacrifice to protect their fellow citizens. And today we rememberthem and all firefighters...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - By a vote of 15-5, the Senate Finance Committee today approved an updated package of energy tax incentives for consideration by the full Senate. Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) expects to offer the Committee product today as an amendment to the energy bill currently on...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: “My generation, now described as “The Greatest Generation", was the beneficiary of an American society that bore opportunities for all - no matter what your station in life.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today issued the following language regarding provisions in the FY2008 Interior Appropriations bill that address an error made by the Clinton Administration on deepwater leases in 1998 and 1999:
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: Olympic National Park’s popular Heart O’the Hills campground will reopen this Friday after a six-month closure. The windstorm of December 15 - now known as the Hannukah Eve Windstorm of 2006 - felled hundreds of trees in the campground, damaging signs, picnic tables and other campground amenities.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: Take an audio tour of historic St. Louis by downloading the Gateway Arch PastCast tour to your iPod or MP3 player. Beginning June 26 and continuing indefinitely thereafter. The first download will be followed by weekly additions about successively later time periods, until the final download is available on July 31. Once available for download, all tours will be available at any time throughout the summer.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) joined his colleagues today to introduce H.R. 2776, the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2007.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: Dear Acting Administrator Norwalk: We write to express our views regarding the Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule for fiscal year 2008. As you know, fair and accurate Medicare payments for hospital services are a priority for the Senate Committee on Finance.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV) and Sen. EdwardKennedy (D-MA) today announced a new package of legislation to help improve health andsafety in U.S. mines.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2007
News Release: If you've ever wondered what musical entertainment was like before the days of MTV, stereos and CD's, Fort Stanwix has the answer!.
