News from January 2016
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding reports of a hydrogen bomb test by North Korea.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is featured in several of the news media's lists of the top science stories of 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said this Wednesday after news media reported that an employee of the Tomah (Wis.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center was jailed on suspicion of sexual assault...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. -January 6, 2016. Krystina Isaac, Interpretive Park Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x 223. Rimrock, AZ -Montezuma Well. Clarkdale, AZ -Tuzigoot National Monument. Day of Service Events at Montezuma Well and Tuzigoot National Monument. All National Parks are fee free on...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: The shipwrecks, and parts of other ships, that were found are most likely the remains of 33 ships trapped by pack ice close to the Alaskan Arctic shore in September 1871. The whaling captains had counted on a wind shift from the east to drive the ice out to sea as it had always done in years past.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. -January 6, 2016. Krystina Isaac, Interpretive Park Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x 223. Rimrock, AZ -Montezuma Well. Clarkdale, AZ -Tuzigoot National Monument. Day of Service Events at Montezuma Well and Tuzigoot National Monument. All National Parks are fee free on...
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding reports that committee Chair Ed Royce will convene listening sessions for Republican committee members to discuss an authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) for the fight against ISIS...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: Wright Brothers National Memorial will be joining national parks across the country in celebrating the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday by waiving entrance fees on Monday, Jan. 18, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: Hours: Mon.-Fri. 9:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: NIST has been issued a patent for a novel method to improve the performance and utility of the sort of high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps used for stadium and shopping-mall lighting, illumination for movie and TV productions that require excellent color rendition, and even indoor horticulture and automobile headlights.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: Wright Brothers National Memorial will be joining national parks across the country in celebrating the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday by waiving entrance fees on Monday, Jan. 18, 2016.
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the postponement of peace talks aimed at addressing the ongoing crisis in Burundi. The talks were scheduled to resume this week in Arusha, Tanzania...
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the reported nuclear test in North Korea...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- There are over 80 ocean, coastal and Great Lakes parks in the National Park System, protecting hundreds of years of maritime heritage for all Americans. On Sunday, January 10 from 1- 4 pm, Biscayne National Park’s Family Fun Fest theme will be “I’m on a Boat!," featuring activities...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed legislation to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and defund Planned Parenthood. Republicans in the Senate previously passed the legislation, which President Obama will veto.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Emmett Blyden, 45, was sentenced on Tuesday to 96 months in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit an armed home invasion and drug-rip at a Providence residence in June 2014, where he, and a co-defendant, Allen Prout, 44, of Providence, were expecting to find and steal ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Ranking Members of the House Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, Education and the Workforce, and Budget denounced House Republicans’ reconciliation legislation that would effectively gut the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: Utah Senator Says, “Congress let the will of the American people be heard and sent an Obamacare repeal bill to the President’s desk. Higher premiums, higher taxes, less opportunity and diminished access to care is not what this administration promised and is exactly why Americans continue to oppose this law.".
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the U.S. Department of the Interior will invest $39.1 million from the sale of public lands in Southern Nevada to fund more than 40 projects to improve recreation, reduce the risk of wildfires, conserve sensitive landscapes and restore important...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2016
News Release: SAN ANTONIO, Texas - This morning, federal and state authorities in Texas arrested the highest ranking leaders of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle (OMO)--National President Jeffrey Fay Pike, National Vice President John Xavier Portillo and National Sergeant at Arms Justin Cole Forster--based on federal...
