News from February 2008
By Commerce News Now | Feb 26, 2008
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Feb. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 26, 2008
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Feb. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 26, 2008
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Feb. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 26, 2008
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Feb. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: In the three years since Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (NRRA) completed its first General Management Plan, significant progress has and continues to be made in the implementation of the sweeping changes outlined in that history-making document.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: BOSTON, MA- Senators Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry today announced $ 3.9 million in federal
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: (Salem, Mass). As ongoing partners in the stewardship of the Essex National Heritage Area, the National Park Service (NPS) and the Essex National Heritage Commission (ENHC) have opened an exhibit of award-winning images from the 2007 Essex Heritage Photography Contest in the NPS Regional Visitor Center...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: Dear Attorney General Mukasey: I wrote you on Jan. 22, 2008, regarding my concerns about the no-bid contract awarded by the United States Attorney for New Jersey, Christopher Christie, to his previous boss, former Attorney General John Ashcroft, to monitor a deferred-prosecution agreement with Zimmer...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: New tools created by scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in collaboration with the National Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will help keep the environment healthy by streamlining the process of developing computer models and decision-support tools used by agricultural producers and others in natural resource analysis and conservation planning.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) has hired Liz Fowler as Senior Counsel to the Chairman. Fowler previously worked for Baucus at the Finance Committee from 2001 to 2005 as the Chief Health and Entitlements Counsel for the Democratic staff. Among other matters, her new portfolio for the Committee will include the panel’s yearlong preparation for broad-based health care reform.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today hailed Senate passage of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, which will fund vital health care programs for Native Americans. The bill includes provisions Baucus championed in the Finance Committee that bolster Medicare, Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives today approved by voice-vote H.R. 5264, providing for a ten-month extension of Andean Trade Preference Programs. The measure now moves to the Senate for consideration.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following remarks regarding the role that former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly played in urging current EPA Administrator Johnson to grant California's request for a waiver to regulate global warming pollution from vehicles...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: Pursuant to statutory requirement, Finance Chairman Baucus today introduced legislation proposed by President Bush to comply with the requirements of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act. The 2003 law that created the Medicare prescription drug benefit also requires the White House to submit Medicare legislation to Congress if general revenues are predicted to finance at least 45 percent of the program’s expenditures in the next six years.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: A study released today by the Western Airborne Contaminants Assessment Project (WACAP), shows that airborne contaminants, including heavy metals and both current-use and North American historic-use pesticides, have been detected at measurable levels in ecosystems at twenty western U.S. and Alaska national parks from the Arctic to the Mexican border, including Mount Rainier, North Cascades and Olympic National Parks.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: (rtsp://avs.senate.gov/epw022608.rm?start=30:24). BACKGROUND... Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, will discuss the committee's investigation on EPA's denial of the California global warming waiver and provide updates regarding related documents ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: Wondering how much money drug companies spend on continuing education for doctors- and who gets all the support?.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2008
News Release: “Today, multiple tax authorities from around the world announced their intent to investigate tax dodging by persons with accounts at Liechtenstein’s LGT Bank. We are witnessing a worldwide rejection of tax haven abuses and a new level of international cooperation to stop tax havens from facilitating...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON Robert John Farrell and his wife, Angelita Magat Farrell, owners of a Comfort Inn & Suites hotel in Oacoma, S.D., were sentenced on Friday, Feb. 22, in federal court in Pierre, S.D., for peonage, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2008
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2008 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Divestiture in Las Vegas Preserves Competition for Medicare Advantage Plans Sold to Senior Citizens WASHINGTON The Department of Justice announced today that it will require UnitedHealth Group Inc. (United) ...
