News from November 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) issued the following statement in response to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) review of the House Republican health care proposal...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: Miami photographic artist Brian Trainor’s solo exhibition Hanging Out in Biscayne National Park opens at Biscayne National Park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery on Friday, November 20 with a “meet the artist" wine-and-cheese reception from 6-9 pm. The evening features an opportunity to speak with...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: As congressional Democrats prepare for a House vote on 2,000+ pages of new health care taxes, red tape, and federal mandates, House Republicans have unveiled a commonsense alternative that makes targeted, meaningful reforms that will bring down the cost of health care and expand access to quality coverage, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., November 5, 2009 - President Obama should be applauded for hosting the White House Tribal Nations Conference today. As the Obama Administration moves forward, his promise of helping Native Americans should be met with concrete action that will effectively deliver opportunities on tribal lands across our country.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: To honor America’s service men and women, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009 that areas managed by the Department of the Interior (including Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore) will not charge entrance fees on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: In celebration of Veterans Day, Yosemite National Park, and all other National Park sites across the country, will offer free admission Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009 for all visitors in honor of current members and retired members of the United States armed forces and their families. Free admission is being observed by all public lands managed by the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: To honor America’s service men and women, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced that areas managed by the department will not charge entrance fees on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) computational molecular biologist in Mississippi is launching a project to create a genomics toolkit to help plant breeders develop new varieties of sweetpotato. Brian Scheffler and his colleagues will use the state-of-the-art equipment at the ARS Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit in Stoneville, Miss., to develop and locate DNA markers on the 90 chromosomes of sweetpotato.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - A large-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) storage project in Mississippi has become the fifth worldwide to reach the important milestone of more than 1 million tons injected. As a result, it is helping to both further carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a mitigation strategy for global climate change and move forward G-8 recommendations for launching 20 projects of this type internationally by 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: In 2006, the National Park Service (NPS) established a new annual fee-free day. The tradition continues on Veterans Day, November 11th, when public lands managed by both the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture will not charge entrance fees.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Thursday said the question about the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s place within the Department of Homeland Security has long been settled, despite a House Committee’s action.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of The Department of the Interior, has issued a cooperative agreement award under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The $6.33-million award is for the Contra Costa Canal (Canal), Phase 2, Fish Screen Project at Rock Slough, where natural flows are intercepted from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) 4 miles southeast of Oakley, California, and diverted into the Canal.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D?Mont.) hailed House passage today of a Baucus Reid substitute amendment, the Worker, Homeownership and Business Assistance Actof 2009, to extend unemployment insurance benefits to out of work Americans in all 50 states by an additional 14 weeks. The legislation also extends benefits to struggling jobless Americans for six additional weeks in states with unemployment levels over eight and a half percent.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - “The Going-to-the-Sun Road (Sun Road) Rehabilitation Project is extremely fortunate to benefit from $27.6 million in stimulus funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)," announced Glacier National Park Superintendent Chas Cartwright. In addition to the 2010...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, continues to press the Administration and congressional Democrats to account for the administrative burden and expense to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of significant new agency responsibilities under health care reform. Today he released a brief response from the Administration to his earlier inquiry and made the following comment.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: Small business is vital to the health of our economy. The President and I agree that 70 percent of new private sector jobs are created by small businesses. However, where we differ is that I believe small businesses’ taxes should be lowered, not raised, to get our economy back on track.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement regarding the Committee's approval of S. 1733, the Kerry-Boxer Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act. The bill passed the committee on a vote of 11-1, with all seven Republican members absent.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is soliciting public comments on a proposal to improve three miles of the California Coastal Trail within the Presidio of San Francisco.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Stan Austin today announced that in honor of America’s service men and women, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area will not charge entrance fees on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) delivered the following statement today at a hearing on foreign bank account reporting.
