News from February 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D?Mont.) said today that he looks forward to a focus on health care and economic recovery as President Barack Obama makes his first address to a joint session of Congress this evening. On Monday, during the President’s fiscal responsibility summit at the White House, Baucus emphasized that long term fiscal responsibility begins with curbing the rising cost of health care system wide.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today congratulated Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) on her Senate confirmation to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor. Baucus said he is ready to work with the new Labor Secretary to implement a major improvement and expansion of Trade Adjustment Assistance, which was signed into law last week aspart of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
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By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 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 this evening on President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: The U.S. House Education and Labor Committee today held a hearing on “Strengthening Worker Retirement Security," at least the third such hearing since last fall examining how turmoil in the financial markets has impacted retirement plans. Led by Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), Republicans on the ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: Telecommuting has freed many to work far from the confines of the office via laptop, but the price of working while sipping a latte at that sunny café is the danger that a public network will not keep the data that passes through it safe. Now, to combat the risk inherent in remote access, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its guide on maintaining data security while teleworking.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed an agreement to collaborate with the French Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (National Scientific and Technological Institute, LCPC) to investigate further the implementation of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: A Korean climber was reported to have been swept in an avalanche Monday afternoon while climbing on Half Dome. The climber, an experienced mountaineer, was climbing with a party of six others when the avalanche occurred at approximately 4:20 pm on Monday, February 23. Language barriers and unsettled...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: In a new demonstration of physicists' growing ability to control the "spooky" quantum dynamics phenomenon called entanglement, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland (UM) have announced* that they can cache sizable amounts information...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: Collaborative research agreements, invention licenses and several other technology transfer activities of the federal government trended upward between 2002 and 2007, according to a new, NIST-prepared summary report to the President and Congress. Over the five-year span, the number of active licenses...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: Senator Chuck Grassley commented tonight on President Barack Obama’s speech to Congress. Senator Grassley is the Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance,.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: For centuries, people have preserved fruit by mixing it with sugar, making thick jams that last for months without spoiling. Now scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered* a fundamental property of mixture behavior that might help extend the life of many things including vaccines, food and library books-and save money while doing it.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: Senior federal employees who want a broader perspective on the development of the nation's science and technology policy are invited to apply for the Commerce Science and Technology Fellowship (ComSci) Program. The ComSci program affords federal employees an opportunity to study the national and international...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - H.R. 1, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provides critical assistance to State and local governments to start rebuilding America’s infrastructure and create jobs through a variety of investment tools, including subsidized tax-exempt and tax-credit bonds.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, responded to President Obama's comments on global warming...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 24, 2009 - The House Natural Resources Committee today held its second full committee oversight hearing in a three-part series on development of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), specifically looking at states’ perspectives on offshore drilling.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: On Feb. 17, Governor Bill Ritter of Colorado presented the 2009 CO-LABS Governor's Awards for Research Impact to scientists from five federal research laboratories, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In a ceremony at the governor's mansion in Denver, the award in information...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2009
News Release: A Korean mountaineer was rescued from Half Dome today at approximately 8:30 am after being swept downhill in an avalanche yesterday afternoon. A CHP helicopter successfully lowered park medics to the 38 year old patient who was then raised to the helicopter and transported to a waiting ambulance. His...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced the transfer to the United Kingdom of Binyam Mohammed, an Ethiopian national and former resident of the United Kingdom who had been held at the Guantanamo detention facility since 2004.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Leonard Fox a/k/a Anton a/k/a "Daddy" pleaded guilty today to a federal civil rights charge for sex trafficking of minors, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Lawrence J. Laurenzi for the Western District of Tennessee.
