News from March 2010
By DOL Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: “I’d like to thank all of you for being here today for the first in a series of hearings focusing on reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Testimony from educators and experts, this morning and in subsequent hearings, will guide us as we undertake a bipartisan process to reshape...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: The potentially deadly yellow-fever-transmitting Aedes aegypti mosquito detects the specific chemical structure of a compound called octenol as one way to find a mammalian host for a blood meal, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists report.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: No one at the hospital noticed that Tina Bell-Jackman was dying.On the night of June 26, 2007, Ms. Bell-Jackman turned restlessly in her bed in Room 7 at Select Specialty Hospital of Kansas City, a small medical center that specializes in treating chronically ill patients. Ms. Bell-Jackman,a 46-year-old...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: Dear Mr. Forsyth: As the senior senator from Iowa and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee onFinance, I am writing regarding Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s plan to increase healthinsurance premiums by as much as 22 percent on April 1, 2010. At a time of recordunemployment rates and sluggish...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: This is the third hearing in three years that this Committee is conducting to address the operation and potential reform of our trade preference programs. Now is the time for a more detailed discussion of potential reform ideas. The Chairman and I are engaged in detailed discussions with the aim of coming...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: "Amid Yosemite’s grandeur, young lives are changed".
By DOE Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 9, 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 regarding a meeting with President Obama and a bipartisan group of Senators at the White House on clean energy and climate change legislation...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: Theodore Roosevelt National Park has released its final Elk Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). An on-line version of the final document is available to the public on the National Park Service planning website at.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) convened a hearing today to explore options for reforming U.S. trade preference programs. Baucus urged meaningful reform that will expand benefits for least developed countries, add enforceable labor criteria and provide a long-term...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Bear tracks and a freshly dug hole in the snow indicate some bears are awake and venturing out looking for food in and around Glacier National Park. During the first week of March, there have been three separate sightings of bear tracks throughout the park. Tracks and a large hole...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2010
News Release: The Book of Luke says: “From everyone who has been given much, much will be required.".
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2010
News Release: Biologists at Pinnacles National Monument have verified the first California condor nest in the monument in over 100 years. Condor 317, a female released at the monument as a 1 ½ year old bird in 2004, has paired with a nearly seven year old male, Condor 318, originally released along the Big Sur coast...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 8, 2010
News Release: Each year to protect raptor nesting sites, Rocky Mountain National Park officials initiate temporary closures in the Lumpy Ridge and Sheep Mountain areas of the park. To ensure that raptors can nest undisturbed, specific areas within the park are closed temporarily to public use during nesting season...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 8, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today applauded President Obama's intent to nominate Major General Robert A. Harding, U.S. Army (Retired), as Assistant Secretary for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON—Norfolk Southern Railway Company has agreed to pay a $4 million penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and hazardous materials laws for a 2005 chlorine spill in Graniteville, S.C., the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced a new internship program that will employ students part-time to conduct intensive outreach efforts with Native Americans and their families whose work in the uranium industry during the Cold War benefitted the United States but exposed them to radiation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan’s (Blue Cross-Michigan) subsidiary, Blue Care Networks of Michigan, abandoned its attempt to purchase Physicians Health Plan of Mid-Michigan (PHP) after the Department of Justice informed the companies that it would file an antitrust lawsuit to block the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice announced today that it will require Election Systems & Software (ES&S) to divest voting equipment systems assets it purchased in September 2009 from Premier Election Solutions Inc. in order to restore competition. The assets to be divested include the means to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Houston Independent School District has agreed to relinquish millions of dollars in requests for federal funds and to pay a total of $850,000 as part of a civil settlement relating to allegations that the school district violated the False Claims Act in connection with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) E-Rate program, the Justice Department announced today.
