News from September 2009
By Commerce News Now | Sep 15, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Sept. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 15, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Sept. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Sep 15, 2009
The US Agriculture Department published a three page proposed rule on Sept. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 15, 2009
The US Commerce Department published a five page rule on Sept. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On September 16th, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold its first hearing on the CLEAR Act - a bill that throws up countless roadblocks on the path to American energy production and job creation.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman Jim McDermott (D-WA) delivered the following statement today at an Income Security and Family Support Subcommittee hearing entitled, “The Implementation of the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act.".
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: The author Robert Fulghum said: “A job title doesn’t. come close to answering the question: ‘What do you do?’".
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a letter to Administrator Lisa Jackson, Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-CA) and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) warned that if the Environmental Protection Agency moved forward with rumored plans to dismantle the National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), the agency would dramatically...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: The campground in the Kipahulu section of Haleakala National Park will reopen this Friday. The National Park Service has refurbished the campground at Kipahulu to improve the facilities available to campers. These improvements to the campground are funded by Haleakala’s entrance fees, allowing us to...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement this afternoon in response to reports that compromise proposals are being developed to engineer passage of the Employee Free Choice Act...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Pete Stark (D-CA) released the following statement on the release of two studies by America`s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) promoting overpayments to private insurers through Medicare Advantage...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - US Energy Secretary Steven Chu today awarded more than $1.3 million to Ocean Renewable Power Company in Portland, Maine to improve the efficiency, flexibility, and environmental performance of hydroelectric energy. The investment will further the nation's supply of domestic clean hydroelectricity through technological innovation and will advance research to maximize the nation's largest renewable energy source.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: LA JOLLA, CALIFORNIA-U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Mayor Jerry Sanders led a groundbreaking ceremony in La Jolla, Calif., today for two new buildings dedicated to ocean science on the campus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. The project is a major groundbreaking in California...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On September 16th, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold its first hearing on the CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534) - a bill that throws up the following bureaucratic roadblocks on the path to American energy production and job creation.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: Bar Harbor, Maine - Acadia National Park will be repaving park roads and parking lots on the west side of Mt. Desert Island this fall. Work will require temporary closures during the day at Beech Hill Road (Acadia portion only), Seawall picnic area, Pretty Marsh picnic area, Ike’s Point beach, Acadia Mountain parking area, Wonderland parking area, Ship Harbor parking area, and St. Sauveur parking area.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) studies have shown that "wet distiller's grain with solubles," or WDGS, may offer an inexpensive alternative to traditional feed ingredients when fed to livestock. WDGS is a common ethanol byproduct that could replace more costly traditional feed ingredients such as corn, soybean meal, urea, and mineral supplements. WDGS typically costs about 10 percent less than corn when used as livestock feed.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 15, 2009 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on the Obama Administration’s Columbia River salmon recovery biological opinion (BiOp) plan that was released today. Hastings is an outspoken defender of the Northwest’s...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: Senator Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Senate Committee on Finance, released the following statement on health care reform negotiations among the six key members of the Finance Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Speaking today on the House floor on healthcare, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) asked, “When will this body deal with the problem in many cases created by government in a way that the American people can have the confidence that...
