News from February 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today held a hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius examining ways the President’s Budget works to ensure the nation’s new health care law successfully lowers health care costs and reduces the deficit.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today introduced legislation to help the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) regain its financial footing as it adapts to the era of increasingly digital communications. The “U.S. Postal Service Improvements Act of 2011" would help the USPS achieve financial stability and future cost savings without undermining customer service.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: The sun is now a significant power source for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) radio station WWVH, which broadcasts time of day, marine storm warnings, and other information to listeners worldwide from its base on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-The 2011 budget plan presented this week by the House Republican Majority strips $1.7 billion away from the Social Security Administration (SSA) for the remainder of the year, a cut so drastic that SSA would need to impose the equivalent of a month of furloughs. The entire agency would...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: History Comes to Life at Fort Frederica Festival!.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: The Johnson Ferry North Unit of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area is closed through Monday, February 21. Due to unexpected work being performed by Colonial Pipeline at the unit, the park staff deemed the area to be unsafe for park visitors. Colonial will be encasing the pipeline underneath Johnson Ferry Rd. Unless there are any unforeseen problems that arise, Johnson Ferry North should be re-opened on Tuesday, February 22.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: Bonus bids at the Bureau of Land Management's February 15 oil and gas lease sale in Billings totaled $2,080,635.The highest bid at the sale was $352,000 submitted by Whiting Oil and Gas Corporation of Denver for leasing rights on a 160-acre Forest Service parcel in Billings County, N.D. That was also...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit today held a hearing on “Accelerating the Project Delivery Process: Eliminating Bureaucratic Red Tape and Making Every Dollar Count."
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: NEW YORK - The National Park Service will hold two public open houses to discuss how to preserve historic Fort Hancock, the former Army fort at the northern end of Sandy Hook in Highlands, N.J. The Sandy Hook Unit is one of three units within Gateway National Recreation Area, which is administered by the National Park Service.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander M. Levin (D-MI), issued the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at a hearing today with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the President’s FY 2012 Budget.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: On Wednesday, February 16 at 10:00 a.m., the U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will hold a hearing on “Policies and Priorities at the U.S. Department of Labor," in which the Honorable Hilda L. Solis, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, will testify. The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Tuesday said they planned to work to close vulnerabilities at the Department of Defense (DoD) and the FBI that prevented the two agencies from averting the deadly Fort Hood massacre, which left 13 people murdered and 32 others wounded on November 5, 2009.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) today called on the House Majority to bring up a combined extension of Trade Adjustment Assistance and the Andean Trade Preference Act before adjourning Thursday for an 11-day recess.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and John Thune (R-SD) introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act, legislation that will enhance transparency for state and local pensions and establish a clear federal prohibition on any future public pension bailouts by the federal government.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: Join Petrified Forest National Park in celebrating the 28th Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month. There will be Cultural Demonstrators, tours of historic and archeological sites, hikes to special places that most visitors don't get to see, and family oriented activities. Park activities and programs include.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today adopted a Committee Oversight Plan for the 112th Congress and passed four pieces of health care legislation: the Protect Life Act, H.R. 358 ; the Veterinary Public Health Workforce and Education Act, H.R. 525 ; the Neglected Infections of Impoverished Americans Act, H.R. 528 ; and the Dental Emergency Responder Act, H.R.570.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: (Washington, DC) -- Today, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) wrote to Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) asking that the Committee invite U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) to testify at the Committee’s hearing on Thursday regarding GAO’s biennial “High Risk" report on government programs most susceptible to waste, fraud, and abuse.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: Thursday, March 17, 7 p.m., at the Falling Rock Cafe and Bookstore, 104 E Munising Ave., Munising.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: If you found this article through a search engine, you can thank an automated text retrieval system. For 20 years, the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been one of the major research efforts in the field, and TREC is seeking researchers...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2011
News Release: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Opening Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Full Committee Hearing: "Nomination of Daniel M. Ashe to be Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service." Feb. 15, 2011 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) Today, the Senate Committee on Environment ...
