News from April 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement during today’s committee hearing addressing price volatility in climate change legislation. The graph below shows the state-by-state analysis of annual increases in electricity costs that would occur under a 100% auction, as President Obama has called for, to meet his target carbon emission reductions...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ. - Grand Canyon National Park was once again invited to display its contracted MD 900 Explorer helicopter at the recent “Thunder in the Desert" Open House and Air Show at Luke Air Force Base on March 21 and 22 in Glendale, Arizona. The world-class event is hosted by the 56th Fighter Wing (the largest in the Air Force) every other year; and the park last participated in 2007.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI)issued the following statement today on the decision by AIG, theinsurance giant that received over $170 billion in federal assistanceto date, to pay $165 million in retention bonuses to its employees.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: According to Superintendent Jock Whitworth, Zion National Park plans to start ignition of the 300-acre East Entrance Prescribed Fire (Rx) sometime during the week of April 6, 2009. The exact date of the fire’s ignition will depend on weather conditions and the availability of firefighting resources. This prescribed fire is located near the east entrance of the park, along the park boundary and Highway 9.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Thank you, Senator Baucus, and thank you, Governor Sebelius, for your willingness to serve your country. If confirmed, you will be leading over 64,000 employees and in charge of an annual budget of about 700 billion dollars. The Department of Health and Human Services and its operating divisions serve...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today received the Legislator of the Year award from the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) for her work as a longtime advocate for America’s firefighters and fire safety measures.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today reiterated his support for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary-designate Governor Kathleen Sebelius at a hearing to consider her nomination. Baucus called Governor Sebelius the type of leader Congress will need at the Department to achieve comprehensive health reform this year.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: How much of America's croplands are being farmed using conservation tillage? Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are developing techniques to use satellites to answer that question.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 2, 2009 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement regarding the Department of the Interior’s report regarding Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy resources.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement as The Savings Recovery Act was unveiled at a press conference today...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: LAKE MOHAVE ACCESS ROAD CLOSURES FROM APR 2-9.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Everglades National Park Letter to the Editor - Re: Keynoter article by Kevin Wadlow from April 1, 2009 Edition - “We’re being lied to".
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Washington D.C. - Dave Camp (R-MI), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee, today questioned the Obama administration’s contradictory approach of offering new loans to the nation’s small businesses just weeks after proposing massive new tax hikes on these employers.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) commented today on a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report calling on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to improve its oversight of tax software used by individuals to prepare their...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
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By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Patchogue, New York - Special use permits for the 2008-2009 Fire Island Community Short-term Storm Protection beach nourishment project have been extended through April 25, 2009. Most of the project, which began on Fire Island in late January, was able to be completed by the projected deadline of March...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: - Today, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to review Federal food safety systems. Food safety is a top priority in the Committee’s oversight plan for the 111th Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today hailed the passage of a Senate budget resolution that makes comprehensive health care reform possible this year. The budget includes a health care “reserve fund" that will ensure a health reform bill can meet the budgetary...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement today regarding reports that President Obama will nominate Robert M. Groves, a professor at the University of Michigan and prominent supporter of statistical sampling, to be the next Director of the Census Bureau...
By State Newswire | Apr 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) released the following statement in response to the communiqu? by G-20 leaders on their plan to deal with the global economic crisis: "The willingness of G-20 leaders to bridge their differences and demonstrate unity of purpose ...
