News from January 2010
By Commerce News Now | Jan 14, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 14, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 14, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 14, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 14, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 14, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 14, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 14, 2010
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON --- Based on an internal agency memo documenting the incident, Senator Chuck Grassley is asking the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to respond to information about the wrong filter being used in dialysis machines at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System last year, putting 83 patients, and possibly...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: (Calumet, MI) The Keweenaw NHP Advisory Commission and the National Park Service at Keweenaw National Historical Park have rescheduled the grants workshop that was originally to have been held on December 8, which was cancelled due to weather. The workshop is being held to prepare potential applicants...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Questioning why EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson continues to move full speed ahead on the Obama Administration’s efforts to create costly new regulations that harm efforts of small businesses to create jobs without addressing information about corrupted science and the impact on small...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 14, 2010 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability of $25 million in grants to help schools operating a National School Lunch Program replace outdated equipment with new, energy efficient, appliances such as refrigerators, ovens, and other food service...

By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), Senior Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today in response to reports that the White House has negotiated with Big Labor to exempt union health care plans from a proposed excise tax. In recent days, congressional Democrats have ...

By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Citing concern about its huge annual deficits, Senators Susan Collins, R-Me., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., today sent a letter to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Inspector General, asking for a review of the service’s procurement policies and regulations.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission will convene for its regular quarterly meeting at 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 at park headquarters located on the corner of Red Jacket Road and U.S. Highway 41. Agenda items include the 2010 Keweenaw Heritage Grants program, a report from the Preservation-Stewardship Committee, and an update from the Partnerships Committee.
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - In response to Iran’s arrest of Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Khalaji, the father of Mehdi Khalaji, a senior research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), and Ranking Member Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) issued the following statement...

By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Susan Collins, R-Me., Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, on Thursday made the following statement about the ongoing deployment of federal emergency assistance to the island nation of Haiti...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Republicans today sent letters to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Acting Director Vincent Snowbarger asking for all records and communications relating to General Motors Corporation’s decision to funnel funds to the pensions of 46,000 Delphi corporation union workers while denying over 21,000 Delphi non-union employees the same benefit.

By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: Using a combination of conservation tillage and deficit irrigation management in peanut production can promote conservation of water during the early growing season without hurting yields, an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist reports.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2010
News Release: Haleakala National Park is seeking volunteers for its Volunteer Trail Safety Patrol (VTSP). VTSP volunteers will hike Haleakala’s numerous trails, educating visitors about wilderness ethics, Leave No Trace principles, and the park’s cultural and natural resources. As a VTSP volunteer you could play a...