News from March 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: Cell membranes form the "skin" of most every cell in your body, but the ability to view them up close and in motion cannot be rendered by many experimental techniques. A team of scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of California, Irvine, recently developed a way to magnify them dramatically. Their work has helped illuminate the important role of cholesterol within this boundary between the cell and the outside world.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: Using a small block of aluminum with a tiny groove carved in it, a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University is developing an improved "green chemistry" method for making biodegradable polymers. Their recently...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin today announced that senior drug prosecutors from both offices will jointly prosecute in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO - U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) marine interdiction agents stopped a vessel off the coast of Puerto Rico that was transporting 290 pounds of cocaine, as a result of an operation coordinated by the Caribbean Corridor Strike (CCSF) member agencies.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON-Two U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists may have discovered "the map to El Dorado" for the American elm-a previously hidden population of elms that carry genes for resistance to Dutch elm disease. The disease kills individual branches and eventually the entire tree within one to several years.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: On March 25, 2011, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a groundbreaking ceremony at its Gaithersburg, Md., campus for three new facilities funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility, the expanded National Fire Research...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: Park’s Friends Group Accepts Land Donation for Preservation.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: Join Lowell National Historical Park Rangers as they present walks and talks on numerous aspects of Lowell's history, with a special emphasis this month on National Park Week, April 16 -20. These popular programs will be offered daily throughout April.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: MIAMI, FL. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Rhonda A. Diffenbach, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) joined senior committee member Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA) in voting to reauthorize the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (D.C. OSP). The Scholarships for Opportunity and Results (SOAR) Act (H.R. 471) passed the House with bipartisan support in a vote of 225 to 195.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 150,000 metric tons of hard red winter wheat for delivery to unknown destinations during the 2011/2012 marketing year.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: Date: Thursday March 31th, 2011. Start Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. Witnesses: Panel I: • Mary Ellen Callahan, Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security. • Ivan Fong, General Counsel, Department of Homeland Security. Panel II: • Charles Edwards, Acting...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON DC- Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee, issued the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, today at a Subcommittee hearing on the pending Free Trade Agreement with Panama.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: To mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, Gettysburg National Military Park is launching new social media programs, including a blog for history and current events and a blog for teachers and students of the Civil War.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said today that a new report from the United States Trade Representative (USTR) identifying unscientific trade barriers affecting U.S. beef exports highlights the importance of removing these barriers, particularly in Korea. Baucus has long fought unscientific restrictions on U.S. beef and has specifically called for consultations with the Korean government on a pathway to remove that country’s barriers.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: Citing a need to find common ground on matters of national security, today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), and Crime Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-Va.) called for additional dialogue with Committee Republicans on the reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) called on KV Pharmaceuticals to lower the price of Makena, a drug recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to prevent premature birth for women who have had at least one prior...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Susan Collins, R-Me., and Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., along with Senators Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tex., introduced legislation today to pave the way for a National Women's History museum on a site near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today praised the House of Representatives’ passage of H.R. 839, “The HAMP Termination Act":
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 30, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 30, 2011 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s energy address.
