News from February 2012
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Lincoln Home presenter portrays Underground Railroad conductor.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on President Obama's FY2013 budget proposal released today for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. - Feb. 13, 2012. Sharon Kim, Chief, Division of Resource Management, 928-649-6195 x226. Public Scoping for Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments' Integrated Pest Management Plan/Environmental Assessment. The National Park Service is reinitiating public...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area is introducing a new permit program to enhance our collaboration with area commercial service providers and to comply with National Park Service (NPS) regulations.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after House Republican leaders announced they are preparing to bring forward a bill to extend the payroll tax cut while leaving behind federal unemployment insurance and the so-called doc-fix.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - According to a new analysis released this afternoon by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Republican Leadership’s surface transportation bill that the House is expected to act on later this week would bankrupt the Highway Trust Fund by 2016 and create a $78 billion funding shortfall over a ten-year period.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: IN A RECENT briefing to Congress about worldwide threats, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said that the danger of cyberattacks will equal or surpass the danger of terrorism "in the foreseeable future." What makes that assessment particularly alarming is that the United States may be as unprepared to defend some of its critical computer systems as it was to protect New York and Washington against al-Qaeda before Sept. 11, 2001.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) imposed sanctions on two businesses for failure to pay reparation awards under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA: The U.S. 94th Army Rock Band will perform a free public concert featuring Top 10 Chart Busters from the last three decades. The event is scheduled on Saturday, March 24th from 7:30pm - 9:00pm. Hosted by Springfield Armory National Historic Site, the concert will take place in the Springfield Technical Community College (STCC) Theatre, Building 2 (Scibelli Hall). The college is located at the corner of State and Federal streets in Springfield.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Representative Nick J. Rahall (D-WV), top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, today released the following statement after the Administration unveiled its Fiscal Year 2013 budget...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The President's fiscal year (FY) 2013 budget for the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) submitted today to Congress proposes an appropriations funding level of $857 million, an increase of $106.2 million from FY 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Jane Dornbusch, a writer for the Boston Globe recently attended and wrote about "Ode to Fat," part of the Lowell Folklife Series presented by Lowell National Historical Park. The Lowell Folklife Series presents free public events throughout the year featuring traditional craft, music, dance, and foodways.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, responded to the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Budget that was submitted to Congress today...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC-In light of first quarter financial reports that the U.S. Postal Service would have generated $200 million in profits had it not been required to pre-fund its future retiree health benefits, Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, called for the passage of legislation to reform this burdensome requirement, which no other federal agency or private sector company faces.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Park Superintendent Cicely Muldoon announced that beginning on Feb. 22, 2012, visitors will be able to make online reservations for backcountry and boat-in campsites in the Seashore. "We are excited about providing better access and technological improvements to the park reservation system and to the public.".
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: U.S. Senator Susan Collins, R-Maine, Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement about the President's budget proposal for the Department of Homeland Security.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - To protect consumers and businesses from increasing natural gas prices and keep America's natural gas here in the United States, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) today introduced two bills that would stem the flow of natural gas to foreign markets. One bill would require that any natural gas extracted...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: On Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., staff from Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate Council of Hostelling International USA will celebrate the grand opening of a newly constructed, environmentally sensitive facility at the Point Reyes Hostel near Limantour Beach. This facility...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement in response to President Barack Obama’s 2013 Budget Request.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2012
News Release: On Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, Everglades National Park will host a volunteer event at the park's historic Nike Missile Site, one of the Nation's best preserved sites from the Cold War Era. Built in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the South Florida sites were the last to have military presence...
