News from January 2009
By USDA Wire | Jan 27, 2009
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Physicist Deborah S. Jin, a Fellow of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado at Boulder, will receive Sigma Xi's 2009 William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, the research society announced this week.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ways & Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI)and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued thefollowing statement today upon the announcement that the U.S. - PeruTrade Promotion Agreement will today enter into effect...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Today, you place before us the Chairman’s mark of the economic stimulus legislation. The provisions are just the Finance Committee portion. Other committees, principally the Appropriations Committee, will be producing other legislation that will complete the bill.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Harkers Island, NC -- Superintendent Russel J. Wilson announced the 2009 operating season and opening of reservations for long-term vehicle parking in the vehicle storage lots located at the Long Point Camp on North Core Banks and at the Great Island Camp and Lighthouse area on South Core Banks. Superintendent Wilson also announced that, beginning with the 2009 season, the fee for parking permits will increase from $10.00 per week to $15.00 per week.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Earlier today the House of Representatives began debate on H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, including provisions approved by the Committee on Ways and Means. The House is expected to vote on the measure tomorrow afternoon. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), issued the following remarks in support of the legislation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley today won Finance Committee passage of his amendment to protect tens of millions of middle-income American families from higher taxes this year as part of the economic stimulus legislation making its way through Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a carefully built magnetic sandwich that interleaves layers of a magnetic alloy with a few nanometers of silver "spacer" has dramatically enhanced sensitivity-a 400-fold improvement in some cases. This material...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Washington D.C. - Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger(R-CA) issued the following statement today after Democrats’ released asummary of health care provisions in the proposed stimulus bill...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI)issued the following statement today congratulating the new Republicanmembers of the Ways and Means Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are patenting a method that is expected to double the service life of concrete. The key, according to a new paper*, is a nano-sized additive that slows down penetration of chloride and sulfate ions from road salt, sea water and soils...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Your refrigerator's humming, electricity-guzzling cooling system could soon be a lot smaller, quieter and more economical thanks to an exotic metal alloy discovered by an international collaboration working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s Center for Neutron Research (NCNR).*
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee have unanimously selected U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to be the ranking Republican on the committee.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park Superintendent Chas Cartwright today announced that Jim Foster has been selected as the new Chief of Facility Management. Foster replaces John Kilpatrick who transferred to the Army Corp of Engineers in September 2008 after 10 years in the position.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: For the third time in less than two years, congressional Democrats today advanced the most fundamental shift in civil rights law in decades while preventing Republicans from offering a single amendment. With final passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, the bill now goes to the President without a single Republican amendment ever having received the consideration of the full U.S. House of Representatives.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The Senate Finance Committee today approved by a vote of 14-9 a package of approximately $522 billion in job-creating tax cuts, incentives, and investments in the nation’s economy, for inclusion in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The legislation spearheaded by Chairman...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, announced today that the State of Maine and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have entered into an agreement that will upgrade public safety officer radio communications. The agreement, the first...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Grand Canyon National Park's Division of Science and Resource Management will be presenting monthly community lectures in Flagstaff in collaboration with the Grand Canyon Association and Northern Arizona University's Cline Library, February through May, 2009. The new Ranger Lecture...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new standard-a certified reference material-to aid in the detection and measurement of the potent carcinogen hexavalent chromium in soil. Developed in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New Jersey...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2009
News Release: (Ninety Six, SC) The VisitorCenter at Ninety Six National Historic Site will change hours starting Feb. 1, 2009. The new VisitorCenter hours will be 9:00 am to 5:00pm. Park grounds will remain open daylight to dusk. Visitors may park outside the main gate before the gates open at 8:00 am to walk the trails.
