News from March 2011
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: “Good afternoon. Thank you Chairman Lucas for holding today’s hearing and welcome, Chairman Gensler, back to the Committee. Today we are again reviewing provisions within Title VII of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ROBERT DILLON (202) 224-6977
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: Statement of Dr. Arun Majumdar, Director
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Libya this afternoon, Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) commented on the latest developments in Syria:
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: Washington D.C. - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today welcomed the appointment of Ambassador Princeton Lyman as the Special Envoy for Sudan.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service Chesapeake Bay Office announced the appointment of 25 members to the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail Advisory Council. Members of the Council, appointed by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, will consult with the Secretary and the National Park...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: Bill Clinton once said: “A world without walls is the only sustainable world.".
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -- In accordance with Grand Canyon National Park's 2010 Fire Management Program (FMP) Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), park fire managers will continue to expand the use of non-fire treatments to reduce hazardous fuels in the park's wildland-urban interface.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining economic opportunities with trading partners in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA. - A federal indictment, unsealed yesterday in federal court, has charged 21 defendants with conspiracy to distribute large amounts of cocaine and marijuana in Georgia and Florida. Several of the defendants have also been charged with weapons charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 31, 2011 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the impact of rising gasoline prices on American businesses and families. Republicans on the Committee stressed the need to develop our American resources to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and create jobs. Witnesses at the hearing discussed job loss, increased operation costs, and diminishing fiscal health due to the increased costs of gasoline and diesel fuel.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: PADUCAH, KY - United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, David J. Hale and U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Robert L. Corso, announced today that the first of seventeen defendants have entered into plea agreements with the United States Attorney’s Office for their role in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine in Christian County, Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement on his take of yesterday’s hearing on “Raising the Agencies’ Grades - Protecting the Economy, Assuring Regulatory Quality and Improving Assessments of Regulatory Need."
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: Timpanogos Cave National Monument. News Release. March 30, 2011. Denis Davis, 801.756.5239 x-101. Maintenance Work to Delay Opening of. Timpanogos Cave National Monument. UPDATE: As of May 19, 2011 the caves and cave trail are now tentatively scheduled to open on May 27, 2011. Please call the monument...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Each year in the spring (April - June) water turbidity increases in the drinking water within Grand Canyon National Park. This increased turbidity is caused by snow melt and spring rains recharging the aquifer, as well as by increased water flows through rock formations to the point...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Health and Human Services released its long- awaited Accountable Care Organization (ACO) rule which will dictate the new delivery and payment model for hospitals and physicians under the new $2.6 trillion health law. In response, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) commented today on the new benefits of the nation’s health care law being implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Baucus’ comments come following an HHS announcement today prescribing how Medicare will begin allowing health...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have found strains of bacteria that could one day be used as environmentally friendly treatments to keep caterpillars and other pests out of gardens and cultivated fields.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (NHS), a unit of the National Park Service will celebrate National Park Week April 16-24, 2010. National Park Week has once again been declared a Fee-Free Week by order of Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Sagamore Hill NHS will continue operating on its winter...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2011
News Release: In his speech Wednesday on U.S. energy independence, President Obama finally acknowledged that Canada might be a valuable source of oil, stating, “And when it comes to oil we import from other nations, we can partner with neighbors like Canada, Mexico, and Brazil"
