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- Press Briefing by Secretary Leavitt on S-Chip Legislation
- WASHINGTON -- James S. Brady Briefing Room 11:21 A.M. EDT SECRETARY LEAVITT: Good morning. The President has asked that I respond to any questions that you have with respect to S-CHIP. Yes, ma'am. Q While Congress was out the administration directed states to meet federal requirements...
- Research articles 2007-09-20
- Press Briefing on Health Care by Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt and Director of National Economic Council Al Hubbard
- WASHINGTON -- Room 160, Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building 2:53 P.M. EDT MR. FRATTO: Good afternoon, everyone. This is an opportunity we wanted to make sure we had for you following the meeting and remarks that the President had this afternoon on health care. A number of...
- Research articles 2007-06-28
- MANUFACTURED NANOMATERIALS: AVOIDING TSCA AND OSHA VIOLATIONS FOR POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
- Abstract: Public and private spending on nanotechnology research and development continues to increase. At the same time, government agencies around the world are spending millions to assess the potential risks to nanotechnology workers, the public, and the environment. However, innovative and opportunistic manufacturers are not waiting for test results before...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Leavitt creates his own Medicaid panel; democrats refuse to participate.(Michael Leavitt)
- As promised during negotiations over the budget resolution, HHS chief Michael Leavitt is moving to create a commission to study Medicaid, with nominations due next Friday. The panel will be organized in-house, however, raising questions about whether its recommendations will be taken seriously and prompting House...
- Research articles 2005-05-27
- World Health Officials Agree to Report All Major Disease Outbreaks
- GENEVA, Switzerland ENS — --> Health ministers and senior officials from 192 countries today agreed to new rules requiring all major public health events of international concern to be reported to the World Health Organization WHO. Up until now, outbreaks of only three diseases – cholera, plague and yellow fever...
- Research articles 2005-05-20
- Leavitt is sworn in as HHS secretary
- WASHINGTON -- Dusting off some anecdotal nuggets from speeches as Utah governor, Mike Leavitt took the ceremonial oath of office Friday as the 20th secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, promising to manage the behemoth entity with principles that are "real and right. "Responsibility to...
- Research articles 2005-02-12
- Leavitt gets OK from Finance Committee
- WASHINGTON -- Tuesday's Senate Finance Committee vote was unanimous. And U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, predicts that full Senate confirmation of former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services should be more of the same. "He's going to be...
- Research articles 2005-01-26
- Leavitt is confirmed by united Senate
- WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed three Bush Cabinet nominees -- Mike Leavitt and Jim Nicholson in a unanimous vote and Condoleezza Rice in one of the most divided votes ever recorded for a secretary of state. Also on Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination...
- Research articles 2005-01-27
- Leavitt's EPA legacy? Utah opinions vary
- Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt has headed the Environmental Protection Agency for such a brief time he hasn't made many bitter enemies or worshipful admirers. Still, his performance at EPA does have detractors and supporters in Utah. In September 2003, before the congressional hearing on his nomination to...
- Research articles 2004-12-15
- Bush nominates Leavitt to head HHS
- WASHINGTON -- President Bush chose Environmental Protection Agency chief Michael Leavitt on Monday to be secretary of Health and Human Services, filling one of the last two openings in his second-term Cabinet. Bush praised Leavitt as a "fine executive" and "a man of great compassion." "He's an ideal...
- Research articles 2004-12-13
- Leavitt Defends Bush Environmental Record
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — With the presidential election less than two weeks away, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA Administrator Michael Leavitt defended the Bush administration's environmental record as one that fairly balances competing economic and environmental interests without compromising environmental protection or public health. That characterization is a far...
- Research articles 2004-10-26
- Leavitt takes a beating on both sides
- WASHINGTON -- EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt listened calmly Thursday as some -- including 45 senators -- complained he is not moving strongly enough to stop air pollution, while others said he is so overly aggressive he may destroy vast industries. Leavitt tried to soothe both sides, telling a...
- Research articles 2004-04-02
- EPA's Leavitt Sees 'Merit' In Engine Tax Credit Idea
- FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Leavitt said last week he had not decided whether to set up an independent panel to review EPA's implementation of its 2007 diesel emissions regulations, but said a proposal to provide tax credits to help trucking adapt to those regulations "has...
- Research articles 2004-03-22
- Leavitt gets treatment for benign nose tumor
- WASHINGTON AP -- Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Mike Leavitt underwent recent treatment for a small growth on his nose and is back on the job without complications, a spokeswoman said Monday. EPA spokeswoman Natalie Gochnour said the former Utah governor was diagnosed early last month with a keratoacanthoma...
- Research articles 2004-01-06
- Leavitt lauds Energy Star
- WASHINGTON -- New Environmental Protection Agency administrator Mike Leavitt is proposing a way for consumers to give a Christmas gift to the environment: Buy electronics that have earned the Energy Star label from the EPA. He said that if all home electronics sold in the nation this year...
- Research articles 2003-12-15
- Leavitt touts enlibra in first EPA talk
- WASHINGTON -- Mike Leavitt sounded a clarion call Tuesday for his Environmental Protection Agency to replace any old command-and- control philosophy with collaboration -- to produce more quickly, with new partners, solutions that are better. "Collaboration is not code for compromise. It is the pursuit of what's possible...
- Research articles 2003-12-03
- Leavitt is sworn in quickly at EPA
- WASHINGTON -- Vowing to accelerate balanced environmental progress, Mike Leavitt Thursday officially became the 10th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. He sought to hit the ground running fast. He did not wait for a showy swearing-in at the White House -- which still may come later --...
- Research articles 2003-11-07
- Leavitt avoids endorsing tougher diesel controls
- WASHINGTON - Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, President Bush's nominee to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, last week declined to endorse stronger emissions controls for diesel engines.In his confirmation hearing before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Republican Leavitt faced questions about reducing diesel engine emissions from two...
- Research articles 2003-09-29
- 2 brothers on Utah ballot?
- Voters in much of Utah may get the chance to vote for not one but two Matheson brothers next year. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, said Tuesday he'll run for re-election in his 2nd Congressional District, which includes the eastern part of Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County...
- Research articles 2003-07-09
- Homes a factor in road project
- OGDEN -- Both 36th Street and 30th Street are two-lane roads, but 36th Street is by far the most congested. And yet it is 30th Street, not 36th Street, that is being widened. Ogden Mayor Matthew Godfrey said that's because 36th Street has too many homes...
- Research articles 2003-04-01
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