News from March 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: A poll out today by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that 70 percent of Americans - including 53 percent of Republicans-said they wanted Medicare "as it is today, with the government guaranteeing seniors health insurance and making sure that everyone gets the same defined set of benefits.".
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today the National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public comment on proposed infrastructure improvement projects identified in the final Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) Management Plan that would facilitate visitor access to key recreational areas while providing resource protection...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of hard red winter wheat for delivery to Iran during the 2011/2012 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: President Obama launched the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) in 2009 to seek out transformational, breakthrough technologies that are too risky for private sector investment but have the potential to translate science into quantum leaps in energy technology, form...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of an exploratory drilling permit for the Greens Creek Mine.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: This week, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved two pieces of legislation to revamp K-12 education law. During committee consideration of the Student Success Act (H.R. 3989) and the Encouraging Innovation and Effective Teachers Act (H.R. 3990), Republicans discussed ways both pieces of legislation will return control to states and school districts and support better teachers in our nation’s classrooms.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Do you have some spare time? Are you a people person or a lover of lighthouses, or perhaps both? Are you immersed in Long Island's rich history or ecology? If so, then this could be for you!.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Lonny Bagley started as the Bureau of Land Management Colorado Deputy State Director for Energy, Lands and Minerals on Feb. 27.“I believe BLM Colorado will benefit from Lonny’s commitment to federal land management and varied experience at different levels of the agency. We’re excited to welcome him...
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) today issued the following statement after it was announced that seven American NGO workers are returning home from Egypt following the Egyptian government’s decision to lift their travel restrictions:
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Howard L. Berman, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee made the following statement regarding the imminent return of American NGO workers held in Egypt. The statement follows...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Allied Seed LLC, Nampa, Idaho, has paid $2,600 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. - March 1, 2012. Sharon Kim, Chief of Resources, 928-649-6195, x226. Interagency Summer Workshops about the Verde River for K-12 Educators. This summer, two workshops, one called "The Verde River: Then, Now and Tomorrow" and the other called "Hidden Water: Groundwater...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the Department of Health and Human Services’ Fiscal Year 2013 budget. Members focused on how the government takeover of our nation’s health care system is exacerbating...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - The four original co-sponsors of bipartisan legislation designed to protect the nation’s most vital critical infrastructure- Senators Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. -- issued the following statement Thursday on new cybersecurity legislation introduced by a group of seven Republican Senators...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 467,612 visitors in 2010 spent $30.7 million in Biscayne National Park and in nearby communities. That spending supported more than 400 jobs in the area.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: We are writing to ask that you, as the Chairman of the Oversight Committee, join us in a bipartisan manner to strongly condemn the recent statements by radio host Rush Limbaugh regarding Ms. Sandra Fluke, the third-year student at Georgetown law school whom we sought to have testify...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), hosted a hearing today to examine the nation’s growing prescription drug problem and discuss ways to fight diversion of controlled painkillers, which are now causing more deaths in this country than heroin and cocaine combined.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: Washington, D.C.- As part of President Obama’s all-out, all-of-the-above approach to developing every domestic energy resource, Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the start of an ambitious initiative to capture the potential of wind energy off American coasts. As part of a planned six-year $180...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation is announcing its decision to implement a non-emergency closure of its project lands along the Snake River downstream of American Falls Dam. The subject lands are in the vicinity of the Massacre Rocks State Park in Power County, Idaho. The closure affects all public use of these lands and will be effective March 31, 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), hosted a hearing today to examine the nation’s growing prescription drug problem and discuss ways to fight diversion of controlled painkillers, which are now causing more deaths in this country than heroin and cocaine combined.
