News from March 2010
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: Patchogue, New York-A registration deadline of April 12 has been set for Fire Island National Seashore's 7th biennial science conference. The two-day conference will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, April 21 and 22, at the park's Watch Hill Terminal Site in its new Patchogue Ferry Terminal building in the Village of Patchogue.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Committee on Ways and Means today approved H.R. 4849, the Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act, legislation to provide tax relief to small businesses and extend effective financing measures to create jobs and improve America’s cities and towns.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: The National Park Service will conduct a prescribed burn on approximately 40 acres of park property at the Malvern Hill battlefield unit of Richmond National Battlefield Park at the end of March. In order to ensure it remains under the control of firefighters, the burn will be carried out only if certain...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 17, 2010 - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding today’s that the Democrat Majority will reschedule the Energy and Minerals Subcommittee hearing on the President’s FY 2011 Budget.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: Related Coverage. Congressional Quarterly. Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Reuters. Permalink...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: India hosted the third meeting of the Indo-United States Civil Nuclear Energy Working Group in Mumbai, on Feb. 3-4, 2010. Civil nuclear is one of five working groups established under the Energy Dialogue as a result of the 2005 Joint Statement issued by then President Bush and Prime Minister Singh. The...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: WHAT: The National Park Service (NPS) will host three public meetings to discuss the recently released environmental assessment (EA) for Mule Operations and Stock Use in Grand Canyon National Park. Meetings will be held in Grand Canyon, AZ, Kanab UT and Flagstaff, AZ.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Jock Whitworth has announced an exhibition of seven landscape paintings titled Jim Jones: Recent Paintings of Zion National Park. The paintings, completed by Jim Jones in the last years of his life, will be on display at the park's Human History Museum until April 5, 2010. The museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Darrell Issa (R-CA) has challenged Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to hold an up-or-down vote on H.R. 3438, the Access to Insurance for All Americans Act which would give all Americans access to the same health benefit plans...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: Idaho Falls - The number of universities conducting nuclear energy experiments in Idaho National Laboratory's one-of-a-kind research reactor has now reached an even dozen.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: Colorado National Monument was recognized with an award of excellence from the Colorado Alliance for Environmental Education for its Junior Ranger Explorer Day Camp. This recognition was awarded in the citizen/community outreach category. The monument was honored for its leadership in developing effective, cooperative, and cross-sector environmental education programs with the establishment of its Junior Ranger Explorer Day Camp.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander Levin (D-MI), delivered the following statement today at a Ways and Means markup of H.R. 4849, the Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Act of 2010...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
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By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley and Sen. Mike Enzi today asked the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help provide meaningful responses to their inquiry about an MIT health care economist who testified before their committees without disclosing $400,000 in government contracts for work pertaining to health care reform.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, today made the following comment on the Senate’s passage of a $17.6 billion bill described by Democratic sponsors as a “jobs" bill. The Senate’s passage clears the measure for the President.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - In a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Rep. Darrell Issa, the Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan, Ranking Member of the Domestic Policy Subcommittee, blasted manipulations in a recent report on the Home Affordable Modification Program, or HAMP, saying Treasury instead “needs to confront the failure of technocratic tinkering to generate meaningful relief for distressed homeowners.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement following the Senate passage of the HIRE (Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment) Act on a bipartisan vote of 68-29, which includes an extension of transportation programs and full funding for the Highway Trust Fund through the end of the year. The bill now goes to the President for his signature.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: Jamaica Bay. Tour the Tip at Breezy Point. Fort Tilden, Bldg. 1. Saturday, March 13. 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Mickey Maxwell Cohen, American Littoral Society naturalist, leads this three mile walk around the wild, western tip of the Rockaway Peninsula. Participants will carpool to the site. Bring binoculars.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: Crop and herbicide use history are more critical to herbicide efficacy and environmental safety than the timing and amount of irrigation water used, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, today used a congressional hearing with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to reiterate key GOP priorities for education reform, including: restoring local control, empowering parents, letting teachers teach, and protecting taxpayers. The hearing examined the Education Department’s recently released blueprint for reauthorization of the law known as No Child Left Behind.
