News from April 2008
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: In January, research began in Rocky Mountain National Park to evaluate procedures for testing live elk for chronic wasting disease (CWD). This is the first time free ranging elk have been tested for CWD using this live procedure. This study is being done at the park to take advantage of the implementation of the recently announced Rocky Mountain National Park Elk and Vegetation Management Plan.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: The National Park Service at Fort Frederica is pleased to announce a special evening living history program that will immerse visitors in an important aspect of colonial culture - the tavern. On Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 7:00 p.m., visitors are invited to join some of Frederica’s 18th-century residents...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area (SSNHA) honored the best in heritage development during their Annual Golden Silo Awards Luncheon, Wednesday, April 9, 2008. More than 85 regional partners attended the event held at the Park Place Event Centre in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: Some people comb through neighborhood yard sales and secondhand stores to find that one-of-a-kind treasure. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant geneticist Mark Farnham used similar tactics-but on a much larger scale-in his search for distinctive varieties of Carolina collards.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In conjunction with a bipartisan Senate Subcommittee investigation last year, which found that roughly 30,000 Medicaid service providers owe more than $1 billion in unpaid federal taxes, Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN), Ranking Member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: Most Americans look forward to each year’s tax filing season with mixed feelings oftrepidation and anticipation. Will they owe more taxes or will they get a refund? But, for a growingnumber of taxpayers, tax filing season has become the source of another fear - that of becoming avictim of identity theft.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: Hearing Statement of Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: In celebration of National Park Week, April 19-27, National Junior Ranger Day will be held on Saturday, April 26, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Sieur de Monts Spring area in Acadia National Park. The park, the Dorr Museum of College of the Atlantic, and the Bar Harbor Garden Club have teamed together...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today joined the Senate to approve a bipartisan amendment that will extend tax credits for clean energy technologies.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) won passage of important tax relief measures for homeowners, homebuyers, and homebuilders as part of the housing bill approved 84-12 by the Senate today. The Baucus-Grassley tax provisions,...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, made the following remarks regarding revisions to the Environmental Protection Agency's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Joseph Lieberman (ID-CT), and John Warner (R-VA) today unveiled legislative language that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, ensures that the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act (S.2191) will impose no cost on the federal government.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Earlier this week, President Bush took the unprecedented step of submitting implementing legislation for the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement (FTA) to Congress over the objections of leadership in the House of Representatives. The House today responded by removing the FTA legislation from the timelines imposed by trade promotion authority, thereby restoring the Speaker’s authority to determine the House schedule.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: Senate Homeland Security Committee today unanimously approved legislation to reauthorize and increase funding for the U.S. Fire Administration and to expand the National Fire Academy. The bill was authored by Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME), who is Ranking Member of the Committee,...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2008
News Release: "Yosemite- America’s Treasure" will debut on the Travel Channel this Sunday, April 13 at 7:00 p.m. (ET/PT). The one- hour program, produced in the summer and fall of 2007, features the beauty, cultural and natural history, and landmark features of Yosemite National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, April 9, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CIV (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – Medicaid Dental Center (MDC), a privately-owned chain of dental clinics in North Carolina previously known as Smile Starters and Carolina Dental Center, has reached a settlement with the United ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, April 9, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRM (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – A former special agent with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) was sentenced in Tucson today in connection with the theft of more than $1 million, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, April 9, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV OPA (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Forty years ago, this Nation made a commitment to provide for fair access to housing throughout the United States with the enactment of the Fair Housing Act. The original Act, passed only days after the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, April 9, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON — A U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) contractor from Baltimore pleaded guilty today to conspiring to steal competitive information concerning contracts to supply fuel to DOD aircraft at locations worldwide, the Department of Justice announced.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 9, 2008
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday extended to April 15 the deadline for the submission of requests to testify at public meetings to be held next month in Los Angeles, California, and Chicago, Illinois, on the notice by Bank of America Corporation to acquire Countrywide Financial Corporation.
