News from December 2010
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: NEW YORK, New York -National Parks of New York Harbor Commissioner Maria Burks has named Linda Canzanelli as superintendent of Gateway National Recreation Area. Canzanelli will be responsible for the 26,000 acre park, which spans locations in New York and New Jersey, and drew more than nine million visitors in 2009. She succeeds Barry Sullivan, who retired.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., has accepted the nomination to become a co-chair of the bipartisan, bicameral Congressional Fire Services Caucus, a group of more than 320 members dedicated to supporting firefighters and fire services legislation. The Senator Friday issued the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: LAS VEGAS - Beginning this month and over the next six months construction crews at Lake Mead National Recreation Area will upgrade visitor facilities throughout the park. Scheduled upgrades include improving picnic and restroom facilities and accessibility for disabled visitors at Blue Point Spring, Rogers Spring, Echo Bay, Boulder Beach, and Cottonwood Cove.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: On Dec. 16, 2010, Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gary Locke presented five U.S. organizations with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest honor for organizational innovation and performance excellence.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C.- Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the incoming Chairman for the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today named Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Patrick McHenry (R-NC) to chair the Subcommittees on (1) National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations, (2) Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending and (3) TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: Harkers Island, North Carolina - Superintendent Russel J. Wilson announced the dates of the 2011 operating season and the opening of reservations for the Great Island cabins on South Core Banks and Long Point cabins on North Core Banks within Cape Lookout National Seashore.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: Murkowski Comments on DOE Critical Minerals Strategy
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Senate unanimously passed H.R. 4973, the National Wildlife Refuge Volunteer Improvement Act of 2010, which would reauthorize the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (USFWS) volunteer programs and require the development of a strategy to better engage volunteers in the work of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the incoming Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, tonight issued the following statement congratulating Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on his selection by the House Democratic Caucus to be the next Ranking Member of the oversight panel...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today called for swift passage of legislation to extend critical trade programs before they expire at the end of the year. Baucus has long been a champion for these programs, including Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), the Generalized...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: There is no better way to get outside and burn off some of those extra holiday calories than by joining a Park Ranger at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on a special holiday snowshoe hike on Sunday, December 26 and/or Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Meet at 1:00 p.m. at the Visitor Center in Empire.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Dec. 17, 2010 - Natural Resources Committee Chairman-elect Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced intentions to pass a public lands and waterways crafted by himself and Senator Barbara Boxer during the final days of the lame-duck Democrat Congress.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the House of Representatives passed S. 3874, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Ranking Member, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) with a vote of 226 to 109. The Senate unanimously passed the legislation ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the incoming Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, tonight issued the following statement following the vote to freeze tax rates at the current level for two years, preventing an income tax increase that would have affected all Americans...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released the 2010 Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) Progress Report highlighting current research on this still mysterious disease affecting the nation's honey bees.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2010
News Release: The visitor centers at Theodore Roosevelt National Park and Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site will be closed on December 24 and 25 and, January 1. Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site will be closed in its entirety on those days. All facilities will reopen for regular business hours on December 26 and Jan. 2, respectively.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2010
Release: Collin County, TX, Dec. 16, 2010 - Audrey Rowe, deputy administrator of USDA's Food and Nutrition Service, today recognized Minshew Elementary School in McKinney, Texas for their excellence in school nutrition.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2010
Release: Washington, DC, Dec. 16, 2010 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the award of a demonstration grant to Connecticut to test new ways to provide nutrition assistance and access to healthy foods to low-income children during the summer. The grant is part of the Obama Administration's...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2010
Release: Washington, DC, Dec. 16, 2010 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the award of a demonstration grant to Missouri to test new ways to provide nutrition assistance and access to healthy foods to low-income children during the summer. The $230,650 Missouri grant is part of the Obama...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Washington, D.C. — Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today delivered remarks about the Department's ongoing efforts to strengthen the nation's cybersecurity at The Atlantic and Government Executive's Cyber Security Forum.
