News from March 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - In advance of today’s House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing examining ObamaCare’s impact on Medicaid and state health care reform, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Fred Upton (R-Michigan), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee released a comprehensive report outlining the $118 billion price tag to states of the massive expansion of the Medicaid program in the health law.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: 2011 Lyceum Series. "Trying To See The Forest For The Trees: Forest Health In The Rocky Mountains". Saturday, March 5, 7:00 p.m. Born To Burn? The Impacts of Wildfire on Understory Plants in Colorado's Ponderosa Pine Forests. Colorado's ponderosa pine forests have experienced a marked increase in the...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: Celebrate Women's History Month with special series at Federal Hall.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: Dear Inspector General Levinson: As Chairs of the United States Senate Committee on Finance, and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittees on Federal Financial Management and Contracting Oversight, we are committed to reducing fraud, waste and abuse within federal government...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: A reliable and trustworthy system of weights and measures is vital for economic activity. Maintaining that system requires constant vigilance, and that's where the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Weights and Measures Division (WMD) comes in. While the division routinely hosts meetings...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Norm Dicks, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, gave the following statement on the House floor during consideration of H.Res. 44, a two week Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: To determine if a tissue biopsy reveals the presence of cancer, a histologist often screens for cells with an abnormal appearance or a specific visible trait such as a larger-than-usual nucleus. However, by the time a cancer is physically noticeable, the disease may be in its later stages and more difficult...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: Registration is now open for Yosemite Institute’s Two Week Long Summer Field Research Course.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today, at a press conference held at 2:00 pm in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Greenville, that $3,085,386 dollars in seized assets stemming from an upstate drug prosecution from 2004 through 2006 has been dispersed among several state and...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Weill Cornell Medical College have designed artificial "protocells" that can lure, entrap and inactivate a class of deadly human viruses-think decoys with teeth. The technique offers a new research tool that can be used to study in detail the mechanism by which viruses attack cells, and might even become the basis for a new class of antiviral drugs.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: The governing board of the public-private Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) has voted in favor of a new standard important for two-way data communications between utilities and their customers, bringing the next-generation "smart" electrical power grid a step closer to reality.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: Those who enjoy the caffeinated lift that comes from drinking traditional coffees and teas may tend to overlook the benefits of drinking herbal infusions. Now, as explained in this month's issue of Agricultural Research magazine, the idea that herbal teas may provide a variety of health benefits is no longer just folklore.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued certificates of protection to developers of 33 new varieties of seed-reproduced and tuber-propagated plants. They include barley, bean, cowpea, guar, oat, pea, triticale and wheat.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the following opening statement at today’s committee hearing entitled “Assessing U.S. Foreign Policy Priorities and Needs Amidst Economic Challenges"...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) criticized the President’s 2011 Trade Agenda, released today, for failing to address Korea’s continued unjustified restrictions on U.S. beef as well as the Agenda’s lack of a timeline or specific steps to complete the Colombia and...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander M. Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) today responded to continued Republican efforts to hold the South Korea FTA hostage to other trade matters...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: HARTFORD, CT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RICHARD TORRES-RIOS, 41, of Maunabo, Puerto Rico, was sentenced today by Senior United States District...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2011
News Release: Computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are requesting comments from interested parties on their biennial update of the catalog of security controls for the federal government. The security control catalog provides a comprehensive set of management, operational...
