News from February 2009
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: Good things are happening at the Bunker Hill Monument.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
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By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D?Mont.) commented today on President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 budget. The Senate Finance Committee’s jurisdiction includes tax policy, Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program,Social Security, and international...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today on President Obama’s FY 2010 Budget...
By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, today released this statement following Defense Secretary Robert Gates' decision to allow photographers to document flag-draped coffins of fallen soldiers arriving at Dover Air Force Base with consent from the troop's family:
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), along with U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA), introduced the Select Agent Program and Biosafety Improvement Act of 2009, to improve America’s approach to biosecurity by reauthorizing the Select Agent Program and enhancing the safety of biological research laboratories.
By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee, has issued the following statement on the foreign affairs portion of the budget outline that the Obama Administration submitted to Congress today...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, today released the following statement on President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2010 Budget...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 26, 2009 - The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a hearing today on H.R. 699, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2009. While updates do need to be made to the Mining Law, the royalty structure in H.R. 699 could seriously impede domestic mineral production and harm our nation’s economy.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
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By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight held a hearing today to learn more about the assistance provided by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to taxpayers facing economic difficulties. Subcommittee Chairman John Lewis (D-GA) issued the following opening statement during today’s hearing...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, made the following remarks regarding global warming provisions in President Obama's FY2010 Budget released today...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: Searchers found the body of a 48 year old man about 400 feet below Canyon Overlook in Zion National Park on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. The name of the deceased person is being withheld pending notification of family. The incident is under investigation by the Washington County Sheriff’s Office in cooperation with the National Park Service. An investigation is standard procedure for fatalities in the park.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today made the following remarks regarding the role of EPW Committee Members who also serve on the Budget Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today, at a hearing on problems identified by a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the GSA’s Excluded Parties List System (EPLS), called for new training and technology to play a role in eliminating serious mistakes in the awarding of Federal contracts.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2009
News Release: Painted Desert Inn Reproduction Historic Furnishings to be Built for the Lunchroom at Petrified Forest National Park.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2009
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are wielding a new weapon in the war on weeds. It isn't meant for direct action, though, but instead to gather valuable information on underground stores of weed seeds, dubbed "seed banks," that enable some species to re-infest fields for years to come.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement that, if approved by the court, will resolve a lawsuit filed by the Department against the Administrative Office of the Courts of the State of North Carolina and the Honorable Jerry Braswell, Senior Resident Superior Court Judge for North Carolina Judicial District 8-B, in his official capacity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., announced the arrest of more than 750 individuals on narcotics-related charges and the seizure of more than 23 tons of narcotics as part of a 21-month multi-agency law enforcement investigation known as "Operation Xcellerator." The Attorney General was joined in announcing the current results of Operation Xcellerator by DEA Acting Administrator Michele M. Leonhart.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Complaint was unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts against a New York pharmaceutical company for alleged False Claims Act violations arising from the company’s marketing the drugs Celexa and Lexapro for unapproved pediatric use and for paying kickbacks to induce physicians to prescribe the drugs.
