News from April 2009
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: New and expanding swine production facilities in North Carolina are required to use manure management systems that meet the strictest environmental performance standards in the nation. Fortunately, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have developed a system that exceeds state benchmarks for controlling pollutants from swine farms.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: The federal government should support state efforts to develop a common core of rigorous, internationally benchmarked academic standards, witnesses told the House Education and Labor Committee today. The hearing showed that momentum for stronger, state-developed standards is growing, with teachers, schools, business leaders and stakeholders from across the political spectrum voicing support.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - A 47 year-old Ohio man was rescued after falling 60 feet while hiking in the Grand Canyon yesterday. The man fell shortly after starting a multi-day hike that would have taken him to Cottonwood Creek, a backcountry camping area below the South Rim. The accident occurred yesterday...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: Beginning May 1, the National Park Service Outer Banks Group will be providing scheduled public programs for the pre-summer season at Wright Brothers National Memorial and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Cape Hatteras National Seashore. These spring program schedules will run through May 22.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: Beginning May 1, the National Park Service Outer Banks Group will be providing scheduled public programs for the pre-summer season at Wright Brothers National Memorial and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Cape Hatteras National Seashore. These spring program schedules will run through May 22.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: North Cascades National Park Complex welcomes spring visitors. Spring is the time to visit North Cascades National Park Complex to witness an explosion of valley wildflowers and waterfalls raging from snowmelt. This is also the time to see birds migrating and wildlife emerging from winter dens.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: Mr. President, I’d like to briefly respond to my friend from North Dakota, the Chairman of the Budget Committee. The Chairman was responding to my remarks on small business and the effects of proposed 20% higher marginal rates on small business owners. The budget brought before us raises taxes on small business owners. There can be no question about it. Here’s how it works.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) delivered the following remarks today at the National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee hearing, National Security Implications of U.S. Policy toward Cuba...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Ways and Means Committee today held a hearing on health reform in the 21st Century. Members of the Committee discussed trends in employer-sponsored insurance, which provides coverage for nearly 160 million people in working families, along with strategies to strengthen existing coverage.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: Beginning May 1, the National Park Service Outer Banks Group will be providing scheduled public programs for the pre-summer season at Wright Brothers National Memorial and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Cape Hatteras National Seashore. These spring program schedules will run through May 22.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: The Outer Banks Group announces the receipt of funding, from the 2009 Omnibus Budget bill approved by Congress and signed by President Obama, for restoring the Bodie Island Lighthouse and renovating facilities at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. These projects are being funded through the Line Item Construction process within the National Park Service (NPS).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: At 7:00 a.m. today, a park staff member on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park discovered a vehicle off of US 34 approximately three-tenths of a mile south of Kawuneeche Visitor Center. The burned vehicle was off the road and there was a deceased person inside.
By State Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC -- In response to testimony today on Capitol Hill about his bipartisan Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation Enhancement Act (the PEACE Act, H.R. 1886), Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: Park's Puppet Program Entertains and Educates Elementary Students for NPS Week.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
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By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: The Outer Banks Group announces the receipt of funding, from the 2009 Omnibus Budget bill approved by Congress and signed by President Obama, for restoring the Bodie Island Lighthouse and renovating facilities at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site. These projects are being funded through the Line Item Construction process within the National Park Service (NPS).
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today sent a letter to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina in response to the state of panic created in New York City by an unannounced April 27, 2009 flyover by an airplane used as Air Force One and two F-16 fighter-bombers. The White House has confirmed that the flyover was conducted for photographic purposes.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: (Keystone, SD) Superintendent Gerard Baker and the Mount Rushmore National Memorial staff recently welcomed the new Director of Interpretation and Education to the park. On April 6, 2009, Mr. Navnit “Nav" K. Singh joined the National Park Service team and will be working with the interpretation and education staff on the memorial’s programming for visitors, local school groups, and special park events.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) sent a letter today to Education Secretary Arne Duncan questioning the timing of a study evaluating the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) which revealed that participants in the program outperformed those not in the program with regard to reading tests and other key measurements.
