News from June 2008
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: Using an ultra-fast method of measuring how a transistor switches from the "off" to the "on" state, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently reported that they have uncovered an unusual phenomenon that may impact how manufacturers estimate the lifetime of future nanoscale electronics.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) this morning welcomed testimony from Treasury Department and Social Security Administration (SSA) officials to the House Committee on Ways and Means’ Subcommittee on Social Security indicating that the agencies are working together to craft new regulations to stop widespread freezing of Americans’ Social Security, SSI, and Veterans’ benefits by U.S. banks in order to garnish the funds to satisfy account holders’.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Chuck Grassley, Tom Harkin, Dick Durbin, Norm Coleman, Claire McCaskill, Kit Bond, Richard Lugar, Amy Klobuchar and Evan Bayh havefiled an amendment to the housing legislation that’s pending in the Senate. The amendment is atax relief measure designed to help people and communities in Midwestern states hard hit thisyear by floods, tornados and severe storms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the overwhelming, bipartisan passage of H.R. 6331 the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act, by a vote of 355-59, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Pete Stark (D-CA) commended the House for offering considerable support for the Medicare package.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: Hearing Statement of Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: There are currently four active fires burning in the park with no estimate of containment. Three fires were contained on Saturday and Sunday and are in patrol status.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: Seeking to understand a new fuel cell material, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, has uncovered a novel structure that moves oxygen ions through the cell at substantially lower temperatures than previously...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Tuesday heard testimony from financial experts regarding three legislative discussion drafts the Senators have put forth to control excessive speculation in the...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation is hosting a public scoping meeting on July 1 to examine a proposal to add recreational opportunities at Steamboat Rock State Park located on Banks Lake near Grand Coulee Dam in Washington.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: Using a convenient and flexible method for creating twin light beams, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UM) have produced "quantum images," pairs of information-rich visual patterns whose features are "entangled," or inextricably linked by the laws of quantum physics.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: The preparation of a potato can have a big impact on its mineral content, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists report in a new study of this popular vegetable.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Subcommittee on Social Security held a hearing today examining whether Social Security and low-income Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries are being harmed by debt collection and other financial practices, and whether federal law that is intended to protect those living on fixed incomes is being sufficiently enforced.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: Washington, DC - As a result of an investigation requested by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a report showing a troubling lack of oversight and accountability for U.S. funds to Pakistan that were meant to combat terrorism along its border with Afghanistan.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: (Calumet, MI) Keweenaw National Historical Park (NHP) has moved back into its newly rehabilitated headquarters building, and invites the public to an Open House on Friday, June 27 from 2:00 to 5:00 P.M. Park headquarters, at the corner of Calumet Ave. (US Highway 41) and Red Jacket Road, is located in the historic C&H General Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a five-chapter preview of the much-anticipated online Digital Library of Mathematical Functions (DLMF). In development for over a decade, the DLMF is designed to be a modern successor to the 1964 "Handbook of Mathematical Functions," ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in cooperation with national standards organizations, have taken the lead in developing the first two standards for solid-state lighting in the United States. This new generation lighting technology uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) instead of incandescent filaments or fluorescent tubes to produce illumination that cuts energy consumption significantly.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security held a hearing today to examine how certain payday lending and other financial institution practices may harm vulnerable Social Security beneficiaries, and may undermine the intent of the Social Security Act. Representative Earl Pomeroy (D-ND), a senior member of the Subcommittee, presided over the hearing and delivered the following opening statement...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), together with Ranking Member Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), today introduced a joint resolution of disapproval to fulfill a statutory requirement for consideration of the proposed U.S.-Russia civilian nuclear cooperation agreement that the Administration has submitted to Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have confirmed that the photoresists used in next-generation semiconductor manufacturing processes now under development are twice as sensitive as previously believed. This finding, announced at a workshop last month,* has attracted...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2008
News Release: According to Park Superintendent Dale A. Ditmanson, park operations in Deep Creek Campground and at Cataloochee Valley in North Carolina got a little cleaner and a little quieter this month with the addition of two new donated electric vehicles.
