News from February 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: In President George W. Bush’s waning months in the White House and our economy hurtling into a deep recession, long-term unemployment began a steep climb from which it has yet to descend. More than four in 10 jobless Americans have been out of work for longer than six months, essentially double the rate of any previous economic downturn since the Great Depression.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis requesting more information about the president’s latest job training proposal.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - Women's Rights National Historical Park invites the public to a special program in honor of African American History Month on Saturday, February 18 at 2 p.m. in the Guntzel Theater, located in the park's Visitor Center at 136 Fall Street in downtown Seneca Falls. Dr. Dianne Wheaton Cappiello will present a talk entitled, "'We would insist on the universality of freedom': Black Antislavery Activism, 1770-1840.".
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 1, 2012 - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed legislation to promote and expand development of U.S. oil shale resources in the Rocky Mountains, with a bipartisan vote of 27 to 16. As an energy component of the American Energy & Infrastructure Jobs Act, the...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Mike Enzi (R-WY), the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement welcoming today’s announcement that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reached agreement with the medical device manufacturing industry on the user fees that help speed the FDA’s review of devices, bringing them to patients more quickly...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 1, 2012 - The House Natural Resources Committee today passed legislation to open new offshore areas for American energy production with a bipartisan vote of 25 to 19. As a component of the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, this bill expands U.S. offshore energy production...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: Physicists at JILA have created the first "frequency comb" in the extreme ultraviolet band of the spectrum, high-energy light less than 100 nanometers (nm) in wavelength. Laser-generated frequency combs are the most accurate method available for precisely measuring frequencies, or colors, of light. In...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Proving their continued dedication to wind energy, the Obama administration's Interior Department today announced that the path is now clear to begin leasing areas for offshore wind farms in the Mid-Atlantic region. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said this administrative action must be combined with congressional moves to continue important tax credits for renewable energy that will prevent layoffs of thousands of American workers.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The National Park Service is now accepting applications for noncommercial river trip permits to raft the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park. The permits are for specific launch dates within calendar year 2013. A total of 449 permits will be available for 12- to 25-day...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, the House of Representatives will consider H.R. 3835, introduced by Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wisc., which would extend the pay limitation for Members of Congress and Federal employees for one more year. The legislation would save taxpayers $26.2 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Reverend Charles E. Williams II, president of the Detroit chapter of the National Action Network, met Governor Rick Snyder to discuss Michigan’s Emergency Managers law, Public Act 4. The meeting occurred prior to Governor Snyder’s testimony before the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, delivered an address at the Center for American Progress outlining his vision for how to rebuild America’s middle class. In the coming months, Harkin plans to introduce sweeping legislation...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: “Chairman Boustany and Tiberi, thank you for calling this important hearing today on maritime tax issues. This is a topic that is particularly important to my home state of Massachusetts. The ports of Massachusetts have played an important role throughout our history. Plymouth, sometimes know as ‘America's...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - Women's Rights National Historical Park is pleased to announce that it will show the documentary Martin Luther King: "I Have a Dream" this Friday and Saturday, February 3 and 4, at noon.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: Phoenix, Arizona - In honor of the historic event of Arizona's Centennial, the National Park System of Arizona will offer fee-free entry on Tuesday, February 14th, at all the following sites: Casa Grande Ruins, Chiricahua, Montezuma Castle, Organ Pipe Cactus, Pipe Springs, Sunset Crater Volcano, Tonto...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 1, 2012 - The House Natural Resources Committee today passed three bipartisan American energy bills that are important components of the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, which will create over a million good-paying jobs, remove government barriers to American energy production, make America more energy secure, and help repair our roads and bridges without raising taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - Women's Rights National Historical Park invites the public to a special program in honor of African American History Month on Saturday, February 18 at 2 p.m. in the Guntzel Theater, located in the park's Visitor Center at 136 Fall Street in downtown Seneca Falls. Dr. Dianne Wheaton Cappiello will present a talk entitled, "'We would insist on the universality of freedom': Black Antislavery Activism, 1770-1840.".
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: Office of Science and Technology Blog Post by U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and NIST Director Patrick Gallagher
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today praised House passage of bipartisan legislation to bring common-sense reforms to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program by preventing those benefits from being used at casinos, liquor...
