News from November 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 19, 2009 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following floor speech on H.R. 2781, a bill to designate segments of the Molalla River in Oregon as components of the Wild and Scenic River Systems. As with all wild and scenic...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON-The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Thursday approved the nominations of Erroll Southers to be Assistant Secretary for the Transportation Security Administration and Daniel Gordon to be Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy in the Office of Management and Budget. The Committee, led by Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., approved both nominations by unanimous voice vote.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: Charges are pending against a Granville County, North Carolina man who is a suspected of shooting a bull elk inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. At around 10:30 a.m. on Friday, November 13 Rangers found the carcass of bull #21 lying along the edge of one of the pastures in the Cataloochee area...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - The sounds of hammers and electric saws fill the air as a $1.4 million renovation project begins in the Wind Cave National Park Visitor Center. The project will replace the building’s heating, ventilation and air conditioning, telephone, and computer network systems, along with installing a fire sprinkler system.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a new report today highlighting weaknesses in the U.S. Department of Education’s oversight capabilities, resulting in limited controls to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse in the agency’s grant programs. This report comes in response to a request ...
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: In the suitcases: A reflection on the necessary liberalization of Americans’ travel to Cuba.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today the House passed legislation that would permanently reform the broken Medicare physician payment system. The "Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act" (H.R. 3961) passed by a vote of 243-183. The bill repeals a 21 percent fee reduction scheduled for January 2010, and replaces the...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: "Share the Sacrifice Act ends borrowing to pay for Afghan war".
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: The First Colony Foundation and the National Park Service announced today the completion of the 2009 archaeological research dig at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site on Roanoke Island near Manteo, North Carolina. Fort Raleigh NHS is the site of America’s first English colony, established in the 1580s.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 2009-U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues have completed a four-year effort to sequence the genome of corn, an achievement expected to speed up development of corn varieties that will help feed the world and meet growing demands for using this...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John Tanner (D-TN) delivered the following statement today at a Subcommittee hearing on the Social Security Administration’s progress and New Challenges Arising from the Recession...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: Today, Congressman Mike McIntyre, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture, held a hearing to review the progress made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Commerce to award grants to expand broadband access in rural areas.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today criticized the U.S. Department of Labor’s decision to roll back vital investment advice opportunities for workers. The Department formally rescinded regulations that would have given workers access to individualized investment advice to help manage their 401(k) plans - a benefit that would prove especially useful to workers in this time of economic uncertainty.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: A microwave meter that instantaneously measures both moisture and density of in-shell peanuts has been developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists, making it easier and faster for producers and processors to determine these important quality indicators.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2009
News Release: Americans have the right to travel to Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, which seeks a nuclear weapons capability in violation of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. We can go to North Korea, which threatens to destabilize East Asia with its nuclear weapons program. And even during the darkest days of the Cold War, our citizens could visit the Soviet Union.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2009
News Release: The public issue scoping meeting has been re-scheduled for Nov. 20, 2009 from 7 to 9 pm at the Gustavus School multi-purpose room. Staff from the US Coast Guard and the NPS will be available to explain the project scope and planning process and answer questions. Written or oral comments on the proposal will be accepted. For more detailed information on this project please follow the link provided below.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, today addressed the World Bank in a speech titled "Building a Twenty-First Century Development Bank: New Challenges, New Priorities."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has entered into a settlement with a New Jersey hospital and filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit against a New York hospital involving allegations that the hospitals defrauded Medicare, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON – Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, announced today that Kristine Lafoe, a former lieutenant and supervisor at the Lexington-Fayette County Detention Center (FCDC), was sentenced in federal court for her role in covering up systematic detainee abuse. Lafoe was sentenced in Lexington, Ken., by Federal Judge Karen K. Caldwell, to serve one year in prison and two years of supervised release.
