News from March 2009
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following remarks regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's announcement today that it will launch a new program to monitor toxic air pollution near schools. ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Stating that “tax havens are engaged in economic warfare against the United States, and honest, hardworking Americans," Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. and Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., today introduced comprehensive legislation to stop offshore...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 2, 2009
News Release: With American taxpayers on the hook to spend nearly $100 billion in “economic recovery" dollars on federal education programs-on top of the roughly $60 billion already spent each year-congressional Republicans are calling on the Obama Administration to cooperate with vigorous congressional oversight ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2009
News Release: The Senate Finance Committee today released its report on the nomination of Ron Kirk to be United States Trade Representative. The report, compiled from information received and discovered in the Finance Committee’s vetting process of the nominee, reflect certain errors in the nominee’s past tax returns. Steps have been taken by the nominee to bring tax returns into compliance.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2009
News Release: Hyde and Dare County Schools have signed agreements with the National Park Service Outer Banks Group to participate in a National Park Service teacher developmental program, “Teacher-Ranger-Teacher", this coming summer.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2009
News Release: Hyde and Dare County Schools have signed agreements with the National Park Service Outer Banks Group to participate in a National Park Service teacher developmental program, “Teacher-Ranger-Teacher", this coming summer.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2009
News Release: Today the Office of the United States Trade Representative released the President's trade policy agenda. Senator Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member of the Committee on Finance, which has jurisdiction over international trade, made the comments below regarding the President's agenda.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 1, 2009
News Release: Chesterfield, Michigan – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Detroit, Michigan, to obtain appointment of an independent fiduciary to terminate the profit-sharing trust of Constitution Mold & Engineering Inc. (CME) and distribute its assets to eligible plan participants. CME was formerly a business operated in Chesterfield.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2009
News Release: More than fifty people got out of the house and onto the beach for Fire Island National Seashore's ranger-guided hike, "Exploring the Burma Trail," on Saturday, February 28. This program, which started at the park's Wilderness Visitor Center on Fire Island at the southernmost end of William Floyd Parkway...
