News from December 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today called on the White House and Democratic congressional leaders to boost job creation by lowering small businesses’ tax burden. Grassley introduced legislation in June that includes a series of measures to jumpstart small businesses, which create 70 percent of all net new jobs.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and lead author of the Senate's comprehensive climate change legislation, wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today urging increased global aid to support international climate change priorities. These issues will be debated during the international negotiations later this month in Copenhagen.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: The Tioga and Glacier Point Roads in Yosemite are closed for the season. These roads close each fall and remain closed throughout the winter months until weather conditions permit reopening in the spring next year.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: Seniors have been burdened with misinformation and false claims about the impact of health care reform. However, this empty rhetoric does not stand up to the facts. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act clearly strengthens the Medicare program. The bill reduces premium costs for seniors, improves...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: Discover Your Northwest, the non-profit association that provides books and educational materials in Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest visitor centers and ranger stations, will hold its annual holiday sale from Friday, December 11 through Thursday, December 24.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: Obey Statement. “If this endeavor is to be pursued, we must have a renewed sense of shared sacrifice".
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: The National Park Service is soliciting public input as part of an Environmental Assessment for the construction of two stacked loop hike and bike trail systems in the Craig Branch and Garden Ground areas of New River Gorge National River. Additionally, the potential impacts of allowing bicycle use on the proposed new trails along with select existing trails and administrative roads within New River Gorge National River and Bluestone National Scenic River will be analyzed.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: Viewers of TV dramas don't focus on the technology behind how a forensics crime team tracks a terrorist or drug ring using cell phone data, but scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) do. NIST researchers have developed a new technique aimed at improving the validation of a crime lab's cell phone forensics tools. Early experiments show promise for easier, faster and more rigorous assessments than with existing methods.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: The National Park Service and the Murie Science and Learning Center (MSLC) are seeking applicants for two research fellowships that are available to individuals wishing to conduct research in Denali National Park and Preserve and other national parks in Alaska. The Discover Denali Research Fellowship is for research in or near Denali, and the Murie Science and Learning Center Fellowship is for research taking place in Denali or other arctic or subarctic Alaska national parks.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) expressed optimism today following a new report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimating 600,000 to 1.6 million more people were employed in the United States in the third quarter of 2009 as a result of the Recovery Act provisions.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) and House Oversight & Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (D-CA) issued the following statement today after Vice President Joe Biden’s office responded to the letter Boehner and Issa sent last week by saying the Administration will...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: The inaugural meeting of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), a new forum to provide technical support to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as it coordinates standards for a modernized electric power system, elected 20 members to its governing board on Nov. 19. The new...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2009
News Release: To learn of Mark Mazzola's research, you'd think the amoebas he studies-and the bacteria they "stalk" in the soil-were lion and wildebeest battling it out on the plains of the Serengeti in East Africa.
