News from June 2007
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Learn more about Estes Park’s sister city, Monteverde, on Saturday, June 16, at 7:00 p.m. at Beaver Meadows Visitor Center in Rocky Mountain National Park. Monteverde is a region in the mountains of northwestern Costa Rica that harbors more diversity than almost any other place on the planet. The film...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Kettle Falls, WA-- Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, The Friends of Spokane House, and The Kettle Falls Historical Center invites everyone to a British Fur Trade Encampment, Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29, 2007 at Mission Point.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 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, today led a dozen fellow Senators in introducing legislation to provide significant tax cuts for American troops and their families. The Defenders of...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today said that evidence was mounting that consumers would face a multi-billion dollar burden if a federal renewable portfolio standard is adopted.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: They've been said to stall aging, ward off disease and wage internal war against the harmful free radicals that pummel our bodies every day. But just how well do antioxidants-those all-powerful compounds often found in richly colored fruits and vegetables, such as blueberries, blackberries and red cabbage-actually perform inside the human body?.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Chairmanand Ranking Republican Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today led a dozen fellowSenators in introducing legislation to provide significant tax cuts for American troops and theirfamilies. The Defenders of Freedom...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: JUN 12 -- (Baltimore, MD) Carl J. Kotowski, Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the Baltimore District Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), along with Baltimore City Police Commissioner Leonard D. Hamm and Baltimore City State’s Attorney Patricia Jessamy, announced on June 7, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and John Rockefeller (D- W. Va.),.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance, issued thecomment below about a report released today by the Government Accountability Office titledLong-Term Care Insurance: Partnership Programs Include Benefits That Protect Policyholdersand Are Unlikely to Result in Medicaid Savings, GAO-07-231. Sen. Grassley requested theGAO review along with Sen. Max Baucus and Sen. John Rockefeller IV.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Tuesday issued the following statement in response to a report released by the Government Accountability Office on emergency management planning in the nation’s public schools: “GAO’s report underscores the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance, issued the comment below about a report released today by the Government Accountability Office titled Long-Term Care Insurance: Partnership Programs Include Benefits That Protect Policyholders and Are Unlikely to Result in Medicaid Savings, GAO-07-231. Sen. Grassley requested the GAO review along with Sen. Max Baucus and Sen. John Rockefeller IV.
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC -Chairman Tom Lantos of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said a report released today by the Department of State about human trafficking worldwide underscores that the department needs to focus more resources on the problem rather than being forced to cut back on the one office dedicated to it.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Seneca Falls--An Environment Assessment/Assessment of Effect that outlines and identifies a National Park Service preferred alternative treatment of the Wesleyan Chapel is now available for public review. In March 2006, the National Park Service initiated a process that identified strategies to enhance...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 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, today led a dozen fellow Senators in introducing legislation to provide significant tax cuts for American troops and their families. The Defenders of...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Come to the Bear Valley Visitor Center on Saturday, June 16, 2007 at 12:30 PM to listen to author Mimi Koehl talk about her new book Wave-Swept Shore, The Rigors of Life on a Rocky Coast. Photographer Anne Wertheim Rosenfeld will also be on-hand with her spectacular images of the rocky intertidal shore and its inhabitants. This event is free and is sponsored by the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Point Reyes National Seashore Association.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Contact... Marc Morano 202-224-5762 marc_morano@epw.senate.gov Matt Dempsey 202-224-9797 matthew_dempsey@epw.senate.gov Link to Amendment Link to Gas PRICE Fact Sheet Link to Floor Statement INHOFE AMENDMENT TO ENERGY BILL SEEKS TO INCREASE DOMESTIC REFINING CAPACITY WASHINGTON, DC - Senator James ...
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: Washington, DC - At the dedication today of a memorial to people who lost their lives fighting communist oppression worldwide, Congressman Tom Lantos (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, said the lessons of the Cold War are and should remain a part of present-day American life.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2007
News Release: The United States Senate has passed bipartisan legislation introduced by Senator Susan Collins, co-chair of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, to honor America’s fallen firefighters. The Fallen Firefighter Resolution mandates that all United States flags at all Federal facilities be lowered to half-staff...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2007
News Release: 9:00 a.m. - Fort Moultrie and the visitor center open.
