News from July 2010
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: At their meeting in Astana on July 13, Ed McGinnis, deputy assistant secretary for International Nuclear Energy Policy and Cooperation of the U.S. Department of Energy, and Albert Rau, first vice-minister of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Industry and New Technologies, signed the Terms of Reference for the Sub-Working Group on Nuclear Energy under the U.S.-Kazakhstan Energy Partnership.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: Oliver Wendell Holmes said: “The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) examined legislative strategies for extending middle-class tax cuts in light of the impending expiration of tax policies enacted in 2001 and 2003 at a committee hearing he convened today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 5712, the Veterans', Seniors' and Children's Health Technical Corrections Act, by voice vote. The bill consists of technical changes that strengthen the health care programs that cover our nation's veterans, senior citizens, and children. The legislation now moves to the Senate.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) issued the following comment today after the Administration announced regulations for coverage of recommended preventive services created in the Affordable Care Act. Baucus championed health care reform in the Senate, and together with his colleagues,...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: Liz Friedlander (202) 225-1564. James Ryder (202) 225-0020. Today, the House Agriculture Committee passed the Rural Energy Savings Program Act (H.R. 4785) to encourage energy efficiency projects in rural communities. The bipartisan bill, introduced by House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Rep.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - The Bigfork High School Cave Club spoke to more than 10,000 people about their cave mapping in Glacier National Park at the opening plenary session of the Environmental Sciences Research Institute (ESRI) 2010 International User Conference (UC) in San Diego on Monday, July 12, 2010. The ESRI UC is the largest and most important Geographic Information System (GIS) conference in the world.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the statement below following today’s announcement that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will require new private health plans to cover evidence-based...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI) and Income Security and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Jim McDermott (D-WA) joined fellow Committee and House Members at an event to urge Senate Republicans to end their filibuster and help pass H.R. 5618, the Restoration...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: Washington - USDA’s Market News Service is expanding coverage of farmers markets and auctions to its news service reporting, part of USDA’s overall initiative to help the small and midsized farmers compete in the marketplace.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2010 - Today during a Full Committee markup on the CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534), Democrats voted against an amendment offered by Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) to strike all parts of the bill except Title I, creating new Department of Interior agencies to replace the Minerals...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: Arthur Godfrey said: “I’m proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -I could be just as proud for half the money.".
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Albuquerque Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation, an agency of the Department of the Interior, has awarded a contract totaling $2.35 million to the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 for the construction of 20 miles of effluent distribution pipeline.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s Full Committee markup on H.R. 3534, The CLEAR Act.
By State Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Chairman John Kerry and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are releasing more than 1,000 pages of previously classified testimony and transcripts from closed hearings in 1967 and 1968, a tumultuous period in U.S. history that echoes many of the issues confronting the country today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: I was glad to see President Obama finally commit his Administration to working out the issues he has identified as the impediment to finally implementing our pending trade agreement with South Korea. The President has now put his Administration on a firm timeline to complete his discussions with the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: I’ll vote against the conference report because of concerns about changes made to the Senate bill, which I supported.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) today offered an amendment in the form of a motion to recommit that was approved by the House of Representatives and paved the way for passage of H.R. 1722. The amendment was approved by a vote of 304-118 and the bill was approved by a vote of 290 to 131.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, welcomed the release today of the latest iteration of the federal government’s “IT Dashboard," an online tool designed to give Americans access to information about federal technology spending, from data on project status to evaluation reports. The federal government has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on poorly planned and poorly managed IT programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2010 - Today, in a Full Committee markup of the CLEAR Act (H.R. 3534), the House Natural Resources Committee voted in favor of a Republican amendment to establish a non-partisan, independent Congressionally approved National Commission on Outer Continental Shelf Oil Spill Prevention...
