News from April 2010
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - The Logan Pass area in Glacier National Park is well known for spectacular displays of summer wildflowers. This area is home to popular flowers like glacier lilies, beargrass, spring beauties, paintbrush and wandering daisies; but the area also harbors an exceptional number of rare arctic-alpine plants. There are more than 30 different rare plants and mosses in an area that covers less than three percent of the park.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park has opened the main park road from the Manzanita Lake Entrance 10 miles to the Devastated Area as of April 30. The Devastated Area provides opportunities for visitors to hike, cross country ski, and play in the snow. “Although recent spring snowstorms delayed the road opening...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: On April 22-23, as part of a celebration of National Park Week the Teacher to Ranger to Teacher Renay Moran-Kurklen camped out at the Ecology Village Campgrounds, Gateway NRA for the first time with her 4th grade students from the Renaissance School, Charter School #705. The students stepped off the...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: Three opportunities available for preemployment test in 2010, for the surf-lifeguard job at Gateway National Recreation Area.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: For 136 years, Oregon Caves National Monument has been a tradition of adventure for many individuals and families throughout southern Oregon and northern California. In keeping with that tradition, the Monument will hold its annual Community Day Event over Mother’s Day weekend on Saturday, May 8th, providing...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: "Wham!" was the sound of an airbag as it hit the unbuckled driver with enough force to blow the ‘test dummy’s" head twenty feet in the air. "Crunch!" was the sound of a vehicle as its solid metal body smashed into pieces on the hard asphalt at over 60 miles per hour. But, absolutely not a single sound...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: Oriskany, NY: Most modern communities are made up of groups of people from different backgrounds, lifestyles, cultures and interests. While members of a community may not always see eye to eye on every issue, a threat to the community as a whole will usually wipe away all differences as members come...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) today joined House Republican leaders at a press conference to discuss the over $670 billion in tax hikes Democrats have enacted into law since January 2009. The vast majority of those tax increases are a result of the health care law, and...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) commented on today’s analysis released by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimating that in 2016 more than half of the 3.9 million Americans who will be forced to pay the Democrats’ new tax for not having government-approved health insurance will have incomes that are low enough to qualify for premium subsidies.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: Ways and Means Republicans: Administration Defies Congressional Will and Reduces State Flexibility to Help Workers Obtain TAA and Get Back to Work.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Republicans today sent a letter to Ways and Means Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI) requesting a hearing on the new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) analysis of the recently enacted health care overhaul. CMS estimated that the law will increase...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today made the following comment on a report he requested from the Congressional Budget Office on the practice of some college and universities’ maintaining a large untaxed portfolio of assets while simultaneously borrowing with tax-exempt...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Wally Herger (R-CA) today released the following statements in reaction to the analysis of the Democrats’ health care law from the nonpartisan experts at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2010
News Release: “I’d like to thank everyone for being here today for our second ESEA hearing in less than 24 hours! Let no one doubt that a strong reauthorization of this legislation is a top priority of this Committee!
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa and Senate Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Oversight Ranking Member John Barrasso today asked Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson to account for outrageous failings of the Energy Star Program discovered by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- At a Recovery Act Cabinet Meeting today, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the U.S. Department of Energy is awarding $106 million in funding for 37 ambitious research projects that could fundamentally change the way the country uses and produces...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Schwarz Pharma Inc. will pay $22 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that the company failed to advise the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that two unapproved products did not qualify for coverage under federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2010
News Release: Miami resident Guillermo Sanchez, 55, pleaded guilty today to charges that he conspired to defraud the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) of approximately $854,000, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and Osvaldo L. Gratacos, Acting Inspector ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – American pharmaceutical manufacturers Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical LLC and Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc., both subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson, have agreed to pay more than $81 million to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of the epilepsy drug Topamax, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON— A federal grand jury in Corpus Christi, Texas, returned an indictment today charging Fleet Management Limited with obstruction of agency proceedings, making false statements and failing to keep accurate pollution control records, the Justice Department announced today.
