News from May 2009
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: Saturday, May 23, 7:00 p.m. - Enos Mills: Rocky Mountain Naturalist.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 19, 2009 - Today, the Rural America Solutions Group held a press conference on Capitol Hill to highlight the negative impacts of the Democrats’ national energy tax legislation on rural America. This national energy tax, under consideration this week by the Energy and Commerce Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: Senator Grassley issued the comment below about the findings in a new report of the Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services regarding the “Independent Contractor’s Review of Durable Medical Equipment Claims from the Fiscal Year 2008 Comprehensive Error Rate Testing Program.".
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: Yosemite National Park Acting Superintendent Dave Uberauga announced today that the Tioga Road will open for the season on Wednesday, May 20 at 10:00 a.m. for all vehicle traffic. The Tioga Road, bounded on both sides by State Highway 120, is the popular east-west crossing of the Sierra Nevada. There...
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: Page, Ariz. - A 37 year old male drowned Saturday, May 16 while rafting on the Colorado River in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The accident occurred in Cataract Canyon at a set of rapids known as Big Drop 2. The rapids are located approximately 30 miles upriver from Hite, Utah.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John S. Tanner (D-TN), issued the following opening statement at a Subcommittee hearing on Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Employment Support Programs for Disability Beneficiaries...
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: The U.S. Senate today adopted an amendment authored by Senators Susan Collins and Joe Lieberman that would direct the Secretary of the Treasury to close a loophole in the law that makes it easier for Mexican drug cartels to funnel money across the border. The amendment to the Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act mandates completion of comprehensive regulations governing the issuance, sale, redemption and international transport of stored value cards within 270 days.
By USDA Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON--Honey bee colony losses nationwide were approximately 29 percent from all causes from September 2008 to April 2009, according to a survey conducted by the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: Harkers Island, NC -- Superintendent Russel J. Wilson announced Cape Lookout National Seashore’s first wild horse tour of the 2009 season will be Friday, June 12. Horse Sense and Survival is a walking tour following the wild Banker horses of Shackleford Banks.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today made the following comment on a new report from the Congressional Budget Office entitled “Tax Preferences for Collegiate Sports." Grassley requested the report as part of his longstanding oversight of tax-exempt laws. The Finance Committee has jurisdiction over tax policy.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released policy options for financing reform of America's health care system. The options released today are the third and final round of policy options for discussion before the Finance...
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: Four artists, including John Morgan, an award winning Fairbanks author, will be participating in this year’s Artist-in-Residence program at Denali National Park and Preserve. Artists Bill Brody and Karin Franzen, both from Fairbanks, Alaska, and Gail Niebrugge from Palmer, Alaska, were selected from...
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: Yosemite National Park is seeking assistance in locating a missing woman who was last seen below the Vernal Fall footbridge at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, May 18, 2009. Katrin Lehmann, 31, 6' 0", 150 lbs. She has light brown hair and brown eyes. Lehmann was last seen wearing a maroon rain jacket, dark blue pants, light green button shirt, lightweight hiking boots, a light blue backpack, and a dragonfly necklace.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: The North Cascades Are Calling!. North Cascades National Park Complex Shares Best Ideas for Summer Fun. The North Cascades are calling and inspired by the forthcoming September airing on PBS of the six-part documentary series, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, North Cascades National Park Complex...
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today called for National Archives and Administration Acting Archivist Adrienne Thomas to appear before an Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Thursday to answer questions regarding the loss of a hard drive containing national security information and other Clinton Administration records.
By State Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, today praised the Obama administration for its plan to establish the first ever nationwide regulation for greenhouse gases. Obama also called for increasing fuel economy standards for new cars and light trucks and pushing up the timeline for implementing those standards.
By State Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA), released the following statement today in response to the Administration's decision to provide Pakistan more than $100 million in humanitarian support:
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2009
News Release: Letters from Grassley regarding a study for the Infuse bone-growth product are available in the attached files.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2009
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D Mont.) issued the following brief statement todayfollowing confirmation of Neal Wolin to be Deputy Secretary of Treasury. From Chairman Baucus...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2009
News Release: Elbert Westley George III, 36, a U.S. Army captain who was stationed in Iraq, pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme to steal U.S. government equipment and sell it to a local Iraqi businessman. In a related case, Roy Greene Jr., a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army who was also in Iraq with George, pleaded guilty on May 13, 2009, to participating with George in the same scheme.
