News from June 2010
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement praising passage of H.R.4645, Travel Restriction Reform and Export Enhancement Act, in today’s House Agriculture Committee markup...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: During the July “From Shore to Sea" lectures, William Douros, West Coast Regional Director for NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, will discuss how sanctuaries are addressing the potential threats and challenges of global climate change.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Wednesday said the agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for coordinating the nation’s protections against the smuggling of nuclear materials has not performed its job well and needs to be fixed.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Four Teacher-Rangers who started work with the National Park Service Outer Banks Group last week are already in uniform and learning much about the Group's parks; Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial. This marks the second year this developmental partnership program between the three parks and the local school district is offered.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Camp, Brady Statement on President’s Announcement on South Korea Trade Agreement.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) made the following statement today after Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Doug Elmendorf released the agency’s long-term budget outlook report ahead of a meeting of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, of which Baucus is a member. From Chairman Baucus...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Democrat Majority Leader Steny Hoyer called for a “serious discussion" about raising taxes, even on the middle-class. At the same time, Rep. Hoyer suggested Congress should continue to delay action on crafting a budget that reins in spending until the next fiscal year, at the earliest.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Dear Mr. Newman: As the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, I have a constitutional duty to conduct oversight of the Internal Revenue Code. Press accounts regarding the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have reported how Transocean Ltd., owner of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig that exploded...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Calling all Hatteras Island teens!. The National Park Service invites all Hatteras Island rising 7th - 12th graders to join in some exciting summer volunteer experiences to: *. Assist in staffing the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse on the monthly full moon and weekly night climbs;. *. Help a ranger teach visitors...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today urged his colleagues to support passage of legislation to reinstate federal unemployment insurance benefits and extend the purchase closing date for new homebuyers to qualify for tax credits. The Senate failed tonight to achieve the 60 votes needed to overcome a procedural hurdle and vote on final passage of the package Baucus introduced with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), yesterday, June 29.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on the first report submitted to Congress by the new National Prevention, Health Promotion and Public Health Council. The Council was created under...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Yosemite National Park announces the extension of the public scoping period for visitor use on the trail leading to Half Dome and the Half Dome cables. The scoping period has been extended to July 6, 2010. The public is invited to submit written ideas regarding a long term plan for visitor use on the...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: June 30th, 2010. The House of Representatives will act on the 2010 supplemental appropriations bill for efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti and pressing domestic needs this week. The Appropriations Committee is proposing an amendment to H.R. 4899 to add additional, fully offset, investments to meet...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Republicans today sent a letter to Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI) requesting a hearing with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the implementation of the new health care law and to get answers to why HHS has missed numerous statutorily-mandated deadlines.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Glacier Bay National Park Superintendent Cherry Payne, has extended the closure of Johns Hopkins Inlet to all vessel traffic through July 15, 2010 to protect unweaned seal pups. A recent harbor seal survey found that pupping continued through mid-June, resulting in pups that will be highly dependent on their mothers through the middle of July.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - A park wide pavement preservation project is getting underway in Glacier National Park for paved surfaces throughout the park EXCEPT for the Going-to-the-Sun Road. All secondary roads, campground loops, parking lots and pullouts NOT on the Going-to-the-Sun Road (Sun Road) will be chip sealed this summer, park officials announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Liz Friedlander (202) 225-1564. James Ryder (202) 225-0020. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson today commended the House of Representatives for passing the conference report on the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 4173). “I am pleased the conference report contains...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee’s senior Republican member, issued the following statement today in response to Democrats’ latest proposal to drive up federal deficits and delay emergency troop funding by attaching billions in education spending to a supplemental war spending bill...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, today applauded the Administration for reaffirming its commitment to seek to resolve outstanding issues with Russia to pave the way for that country’s membership in the World Trade Organization and for negotiating the re-opening of the Russian market for U.S. poultry exports.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2010
News Release: A video podcast, Day Hiking and Wildlife, associated with the recently launched program “Reward Yourself - Hike the Smokies Challenge", is now available for viewing. This 6-minute podcast is the second of a three-part series on hiking safety and informs the viewer of wildlife behavior, particularly black...
