News from October 2009
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: On Tuesday Oct. 13, 2009, sidewalk installation will begin at the Island Ford unit of Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area. The new sidewalk will be adjacent to the entrance road to the park. The sidewalk is being installed to separate pedestrians from vehicle traffic entering the park.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) rebuked an objection today from Senate Republicans to passing legislation to extend unemployment insurance by up to 14 additional weeks for jobless workers in all 50 states. Nearly two million out-of-work Americans face expiring...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: The health care crisis in this country is not just a crisis of the uninsured. Many Americans who have health insurance are struggling to keep pace with the skyrocketing health care costs. Harmful insurance industry practices leave American families in jeopardy of losing their coverage when they need...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: Forty-six million Americans today are uninsured, which drives up costs system-wide. The America’s Healthy Future Act will give Americans access to quality, affordable health coverage by ending discrimination by health insurance companies, by making coverage more affordable and easier to purchase, by...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: As Biscayne National Park staff prepare for the large crowds expected to utilize the park during Columbus Day weekend, concerns arise over protecting life, property and the natural resources of the park.
By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: The United States wants to transform its relationship with Pakistan into a deeper, broader, long-term strategic engagement with the people of Pakistan. The Enhanced Partnership with Pakistan Act (S.1707), also known as the Kerry-Lugar bill, was designed to help turn the page in our bilateral relationship by moving beyond a military relationship to one where the United States engages directly with the people of Pakistan as a true ally and friend.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., along with Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Chairman Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, and Ranking Member George Voinovich, R-Ohio, said these provisions will help agencies rehire experienced employees just as the federal government prepares to lose one-third of its civil service workforce over the next five years.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., October 8, 2009 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today regarding Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar’s announcement that only 17 out of 77 parcels of land in Utah will be leased for oil and gas production.
By State Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: Washington DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today strongly condemned the military junta in Guinea for the slaughter last week of more than 150 civilians and called for further international action in response to the incident.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: Studies in China and Colorado by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have revealed some interesting tactics on how to irrigate with limited water, based on a crop's critical growth stages.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: Today’s health care system does not work for women and their families. Unfair insurance industry practices and roadblocks to accessing preventive health care have left millions of American women and their families physically and financially vulnerable to a broken system. Here are ten ways the America’s Healthy Future Act makes health care work for women and their families...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: Permits are still available for the North Manitou Island special deer hunt within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The season began with the bow hunt on October 1 and will end after the final firearm deer hunt on November 8. Deer taken on this hunt do not count against the hunters’ mainland bag limit. There is no bag limit on the number or sex of deer that can be taken on North Manitou Island. Applications for the North Manitou Island hunts are now being accepted for.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: "BIRDS OF THE EVERGLADES". Michael Stern - Nature Photographer. You are invited to attend a nature photography exhibit representing Michael Stern’s photography of the birds and other animals of the Everglades National Park. A native and life-long resident of Southern Florida, Michael is the current photographer...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ranking Member Darrell Issa (CA-49) welcomed Congressman Anh “Joseph" Cao (LA-2) to the Oversight and Government Reform Committee following the approval of his appointment by the House of Representatives.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - With unanimous bipartisan support, the House of Representatives today passed H.R. 3590, the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009 by a vote of 416-0. H.R. 3590, introduced by Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), would make certain changes to the tax...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member and Judiciary Committee Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued the following statement after the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct voted unanimously to expand the scope of its investigation of House Ways & Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY):
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: Families and Small Businesses are struggling every day to make ends meet. Whether it is poring over a checkbook around the kitchen table or staring at a balance sheet at the end of the month, high health care costs are crushing budgets across the nation.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., along with Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia Chairman Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, and Ranking Member George Voinovich, R-Ohio, said these provisions will help agencies rehire experienced employees just as the federal government prepares to lose one-third of its civil service workforce over the next five years.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: FARMINGTON - Every old building has a history, and the Mount Washington Tavern, located on the National Road at Fort Necessity National Battlefield, is no exception. Visit this tavern on a regular day, and the park rangers will gladly share the documented history of building and the National Road. Visit...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 8, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today announced the launch of a new committee minority website...
