News from January 2009
By State News Post | Jan 15, 2009
The US State Department published a one page rule on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 15, 2009
The US Labor Department published a one page rule on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 15, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 15, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 15, 2009
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: The State Children’s Health Insurance Program or SCHIP- is the product of a Republican-led Congress in 1997 signed into law by a Democratic President. It is a targeted program designed to provide affordable health coverage for low-income children of working families. These families make too much to qualify...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), the senior Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today announced the Republican leadership for the panel’s five subcommittees.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: Agriculture Committee Chair Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota announced the Members of Congress selected to serve on the House Agriculture Committee for the 111th Congress today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), and Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Sander L. Levin (D-MI), introduced legislation to promote an effective trade agenda by ensuring that U.S. workers, farmers, and businesses get a fair shake in the global marketplace, and that U.S. consumers have confidence that the products they buy are safe.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - By a vote of 12 to seven, the Senate Finance Committee today approved a proposal by Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) to renew and expand the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The Children’s Health Insurance Program offers health insurance to children living in families not poor...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, made the following statement following today’s announcement of U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab that the United States will alter the list of products of the European Union subject to additional duties imposed in response to EU policies...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: FARMINGTON Pa The visitor center at Fort Necessity National Battlefield will be closed Monday, January 19 and Monday, February 16 in observance of the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Washington's Birthday federal holidays. The park grounds, including the trails, will remain open to the public from sunrise to sunset.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announces that the January 21-22, 2009 meeting of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Negotiated Rulemaking Advisory Committee is canceled. The February 3 meeting will occur as scheduled and a Federal Register Notice has been submitted to schedule a final meeting on Thursday - Friday, February 26 - 27, 2009. The latter meeting will begin each day at 8:30 a.m. at Wright Brothers National Monument in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: The Children’s Health Insurance Program provides health coverage to children of working parents who don’t qualify for Medicaid, but who can’t afford private health insurance. The Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act will renew the program and enact the significant improvements detailed below.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), incoming Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, released the statement below following this morning's meeting where the Committee ordered favorably reported the prospective nomination of Hillary R. Clinton to be Secretary of State by a roll call vote of 16-1.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: The National Park Service has re-opened its most popular trail to Whiskeytown Falls after a series of days of fair weather and a long term dry spell is predicted. Whiskeytown Falls lies within the Crystal Creek drainage, which was least impacted by the fires and the safest to temporarily re-open to public use.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: Petrified Forest National Park. Science and Education Center Lecture Series-February 2009. Petrified Forest, AZ ― Jeff Kida, photography editor for Arizona Highways Magazine, will be providing a presentation titled “Ancient Discoveries in the Petrified Forest" as part of the park’s Science and Education...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: Restoration of Lincoln’s Boyhood Home Cabin, Knob Creek Farm.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - Staff at Wind Cave National Park this spring will be offering two new types of programs, one designed for youngsters and another for adults. Each will be starting later this month and run into April.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2009
News Release: Fans of the hit movie "Babe" will recall that "Hoggett" was the last name of film's genial farmer. Farm-savvy filmgoers may recognize "hogget"-a slightly different spelling-as a word for lambs from weaning age to their first shearing.
