News from September 2009
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senator Chuck Grassley today condemned the wasteful Medicare spending outlined in the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General report revealing that Medicare and its beneficiaries paid nearly four times the average paid by suppliers for standard power wheelchairs...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Dissenting Views of H.R. 3200: Democrats’ Health Care Bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Camp Statement on July Jobs Report.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that motorists may encounter temporary traffic delays on NC 12 in the Bodie Island section of the park from 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. Weather-permitting, the National Park Service (NPS) contractor, JMR Investments, will relocate...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Camp Statement on CBO/OMB Budget Projections.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Late last night, the Congressional Budget Office announced that the federal deficit will increase by $239 billion as a result of House Democrats’ bill to create a government-run health care plan. The deficit would begin to skyrocket in just five short years under the Democrat bill despite...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today testified at a joint hearing held by the U.S. State Department and U.S. Trade Representative on U.S. investment policy and the language in the U.S. Model Bilateral Investment Treaty. His full remarks are provided below.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today made the following comment on the release of the advance estimate of the second quarter GDP...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore lifeguard beach operations at Coquina Beach and Ocracoke will close Monday, September 7th at 5:30 p.m. for the 2009 season. In addition, the Cape Point campground closes on Monday, September 7th at 12 noon; however, Frisco and Oregon Inlet Campgrounds remain open until October 12th and Ocracoke Campground remains open until October 26th.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Yesterday, Tuesday, Sept. 1, at approximately 2:30 p.m. a 53-year-old man from Glen Ellyn, Illinois, took a 25 foot tumbling fall in the “Trough" area of Longs Peak. The “Trough" is a long, steep gully with loose rocks. He and his son, who is in his mid 20s, had climbed to the summit of Longs Peak...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Washington, DC - As U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk participates in the 2009 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum’s (APEC) Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting in Singapore on July 21 and 22, two House APEC Caucus leaders commented on the importance of the Asia-Pacific region and APEC to the United States and urged the Obama Administration to move ahead with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks as soon as possible.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: CBO Says Seniors Will Pay 20% More for Prescription Drug Insurance if the House Democrat Health Care Bill is Enacted.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: White House Admits Middle Class May Pay More in Taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Attention Big Thicket Alumni. Big Thicket Day - Oct. 10, 2009. Please come and celebrate the 35th anniversary of the creation of the Big Thicket National Preserve, and the grand opening of the Preserve's new Headquarters facility. Big Thicket Day will be held at the Visitor Center/HQ Complex, north...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are mapping an array of county-level data from Maine to Virginia on weather, soil, land use, water availability and other elements. Then they'll use their map to model potential crop production and find out where local food production could meet current and projected demand-and where it won't.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: The Big Meadow Fire in Yosemite National Park and Stanislaus National Forest has grown to 5,938 acres, from 5,257 acres yesterday. Containment remains at 55%. The fire continues to be active on the northern flank approaching the Tioga Road near Tamarack Flat and in the upper Crane Creek drainage.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: Superintendent Dusty Shultz has announced the correction of the park’s visitation figures from July 2008. “The July 2008 vehicle count at the Dune Climb was entered incorrectly into our monthly public use software," Shultz stated. “We discovered the error when we entered the count from July 2009." Shultz...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: White House Fails to Tell Seniors the Rest of the Story.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: What is National Public Lands Day?
By Interior Newswire | Sep 2, 2009
News Release: “UPON THIS SACRED GROUND, COURAGE REMEMBERED".
