News from December 2009
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tonight the House of Representatives passed the Jobs for Main Street Act of 2010 to redirect $75 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) savings from Wall Street to Main Street to fund infrastructure and job investments; and provide additional emergency funding to help families who are suffering. The bill passed the House by a vote of 217 to 212.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. John Cornyn today expressed “extreme disappointment" with the IRS oversight board’s lack of engagement in addressing the challenges facing the agency under the trillion-dollar health care reform legislation facing imminent enactment.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 16, 2009 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings offered a motion to postpone the markup of H.R. 2314, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009, until Feb. 24, 2010 - allowing interested parties 60 days to thoroughly review...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) today announced the availability of the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Page-LeChee Water Supply Project Environmental Assessment (EA).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 16, 2009 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding passage of the Democrats’ Stimulus Part II.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) and Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) today introduced legislation that would modernize tax rules related to regulated investment companies (RICs) to reduce the occurrence of problems for funds and their shareholders. Ways and Means Members Joe Crowley (D-NY) and Allyson Schwartz (D-PA) are also original cosponsors of the measure.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: Equinox Sunrise Program: Fri, March 19th, Sat, March 20th, & Sun, March 21st, 2010 at 7:00am.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE WILL CLOSE SECTION OF SKYLINE ROAD.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: Employer-provided health insurance is the American standard and studies show most workers are pleased with what they have. By and large, those workers who are uninsured are self-employed or work for a small businesses unable to offer health benefits. With every passing year of unchecked, unsustainable...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are replicating the effects of climate change to see what the future holds for soybeans, wheat and the soils where they grow.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, issued the following statement regarding the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) score of the Kerry-Boxer, S. 1733, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. The cost estimate released by CBO today found that S. 1733 creates a surplus and does not add to the federal deficit over the lifetime of the bill.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: To kick off Responsible Pet Owners Month (February), Chamizal National Memorial is sponsoring, Pets, Parks, and You, a FREE pet friendly public event on the Memorial grounds Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010 from 7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: San Francisco, Calif. (Dec. 16, 2009)-The Federal Highway Administration’s award of a $8.7 million construction contract to Ghilotti Bros., Inc. of San Rafael, Calif. for construction of Conzelman, McCullough, Field, East, and Danes roads means the most significant highway and transit project in...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Congressman Dave Obey (D-WI), the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Congressman John Murtha (D-PA), the Chairman of the Defense AppropriationsSubcommittee, Congressman John Larson (D-CT), the Chairman of the Democratic Caucus, and eight.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member and former chairman of the Committee on Finance, today made the following comment on the languishing of the extension of the biodiesel tax credit.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 16, 2009 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today following Committee passage of H.R. 2314, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, of which Senator Susan M. Collins, R-Me., is Ranking Member, approved her bill in a committee markup session Wednesday, aimed at making the federal government, the world’s largest institutional consumer of energy, more energy efficient. The bill now goes to the full Senate for consideration.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tonight the House of Representatives passed the Jobs for Main Street Act of 2010 to redirect $75 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) savings from Wall Street to Main Street to fund infrastructure and job investments; and provide additional emergency funding to help families who are suffering. The bill passed the House by a vote of 217 to 212.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2009
News Release: The teeth of some apes are formed primarily to handle the most stressful times when food is scarce, according to new research* performed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The findings imply that if humanity is serious about protecting its close evolutionary cousins, the food apes eat during these tough periods-and where they find it-must be included in conservation efforts.
