News from March 2010
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today hailed President Obama’s signing of landmark health care reform legislation. The President’s signature enacts into law the House and Senate-passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which provides access to quality,...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Dear Secretary Napolitano: The Traveler Enforcement Compliance System (TECS) is the backbone for recording, managing, and maintaining law enforcement actions taken by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). TECS is a critical component of our government’s efforts...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON --- Senator Chuck Grassley said today that he will offer an amendment for rural health care equity during Senate debate on the health-care reconciliation bill. Grassley said at issue is how Medicare calculates payments to physicians and unfairly penalizes rural doctors, making it increasingly difficult for rural Medicare beneficiaries to find a doctor.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Chuck Grassley today asked the Special Inspector General for TARP to investigate why the Treasury Department did not follow through on the mandate fromCongress in last year’s stimulus bill to require that all TARP recipients, including AIG, meetappropriate standards for executive compensation.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
Release: Washington, DC, March 23, 2010 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that, as authorized by the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 (2008 Farm Bill), USDA will expand assistance to state agencies for schools operating USDA's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program in the 2011/2012 school...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: (Calumet, MI) The Keweenaw National Historical Park (NHP) Advisory Commission and the National Park Service are offering a second workshop to prepare for the Keweenaw Heritage Grants 2010. The second workshop will offer insights to the various processes involved in the grant program: application, award...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Oyster Bay, NY: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site is pleased to announce the appointment of Sherry Justusas the new Chief of Interpretation, Visitor Services and Natural Resources at the site. Justus, a twenty year veteran of the National Park Service, competed nationally for this position.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Bill Text and Status. Supplemental: Disaster Relief & Summer Jobs. While we begin to recover from the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the bill also provides funding, that is fully offset, to expand this summer's youth jobs program and continues assistance to America's small businesses...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Grand Canyon National Park rangers are currently searching the South Bass and Royal Arch areas west of the Hermits Rest area on the park’s south rim for two overdue hikers, Isaac Rabicoff and Michael Wu, both from Kansas.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) called ACORN’s self-professed characterization that they are “bringing its operations to a close" as just another deceptive tactic designed to further their scheme of obtaining dollars, private and taxpayer, for the primary purpose of advancing a radical political agenda.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that it finalized a cost-shared $90 million cooperative agreement with USEC Inc. to provide support for the continued development and demonstration of the American Centrifuge technology. The Department sees promise in this advanced technology...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: California Highway Patrol Assisted in Complex Rescue.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Rangers at Grand Canyon National Park successfully located two overdue hikers this afternoon. National Park Service search and rescue personnel located the hikers, Isaac Rabicoff and Michael Wu, along the Colorado River near Royal Arch, an area of the Grand Canyon west of the South Rim developed area and Hermits Rest.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, withjurisdiction over taxes, has worked to hold tax-exempt hospitals accountable for thefederal tax benefits they receive. The health care legislation signed into law yesterdayincludes provisions Grassley co-authored to impose standards...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Do you want to know how to track down hard-to-find information about your ancestors? Or, are you simply curious about your family's background? Advanced genealogists and beginners alike will want to attend this session with the Houghton-Keweenaw County Genealogical Society as they explain how to learn more about your family through various historic and archival records, including immigration, census, and work papers.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) delivered the following statement today at Subcommittee hearing on taxes and the Federal budget...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2010
News Release: Bill Text and Status.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Caucus on Foster Youth, led by Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Mary Landrieu, is urging legislators who will begin re-authorization of federal education programs to hear from foster youth in the process.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 22, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced the execution of a Written Agreement by and among Belvedere Capital Partners II LLC, San Francisco, California; Belvedere Capital Fund II LP, San Francisco, California; Socal Bancorporation, San Francisco, California, registered bank holding companies, and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 22, 2010
News Release: Thank you all for coming out today. I just want to begin by addressing the tremendous development we saw in the House of Representatives last night.
