News from June 2009
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to announce that the National Park Service will be offering three fee-free weekends this summer so visitors to all national park sites, including Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, can enjoy these special places for free.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: Easy to prepare, nourishing, and reliably satisfying, potatoes have a lot to offer. But a potato called "Yukon Gem" has a little something extra: a pleasing, light-yellow flesh that adds eye appeal to this tasty tuber.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recently announced that the National Park Service will offer three fee-free weekends this summer to encourage Americans seeking affordable vacations to visit these national treasures. “During these tough economic times, our national parks provide opportunities for...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: GAO: Almost No State Ensures Taxpayers Paid Back if Sponsored Noncitizens Collect Welfare Benefits.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) and House Select Committee on Global Warming Ranking Member James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), in a letter to Chairmen Towns and Markey, demanded a joint investigation of a reportedly deliberate effort to circumvent transparency requirements in the formulation of carbon emissions regulations.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: With snow melting rapidly in the park’s high country and people gearing up for summer hikes, Olympic National Park staff reminds hikers and backpackers to be prepared for safe food storage in the Olympic National Park wilderness.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement and highlighted facts from a non-partisan Congressional Budget Office analysis of H.R. 2454, the Democrat legislation designed to increase energy prices in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - On Tuesday, June 9, 2009, the National Park Service began a project to reconstruct the South Kaibab Trail in Grand Canyon National Park. The project is one of the largest reconstruction projects on a Grand Canyon trail since the mid 1960s and will be funded, in part, with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released a legislative staff draft proposal to clarify the types of fuels that qualify for the alternative fuels tax credit and eliminate from eligibility fuel derived from the processing...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley is urging the administration to follow the letter and spirit of the law, which the President co-sponsored as legislation as a U.S. senator in 2007, regarding the dismissal of the Inspector General for the AmeriCorps program, after reports last night that administration officials gave the watchdog an hour to resign or be terminated.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: Brady Statement on White House Decision to Delay Panama Trade Promotion Agreement.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: A rare look at Denali’s prehistoric cultural past came to light when a portion of a prehistoric Athabaskan arrow was discovered by park visitors in mid-May 2009 along the gravel bar of the Teklanika River. The barbed arrow point, made of antler (probably caribou) is significantly worn, but it still has...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
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By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 11, 2009 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings delivered the following statement today during the Full Committee hearing on H.R. 2314, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: On Tuesday, June 2, 2009, Secretary Ken Salazar announced three summer weekends where national park entrance fees will be waived. They are: June 20-21 (Father’s Day weekend), July 18-19, and August 15-16.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Responding to proposed electricity rate increases in North Carolina, Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today questioned how many other power companies across the nation were considering increasing rates in anticipation of the requirements of H.R. 2454, the national energy tax created under the Waxman-Markey “cap and trade" bill.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: Today, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to review pending climate change legislation under consideration by Congress.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold a press conference today at 1 pm in Rayburn 2203 on the Obama Administration’s claims that the stimulus has created or saved 150,000 jobs and will create or save 600,000 jobs in the next 100 days. While...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - The three top Republican members of the House Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees today asked the respective chairmen to hold bipartisan hearings on the health care reform legislation from which Democrats have excluded their Republican counterparts.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today issued the following statement after requesting the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) review the initiatives of five major health care trade associations and one labor union to determine the level of savings each of these proposals would yield to the federal government...
