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- Welcome to a new Congress, and a New Year.(Column)
- Ringing in the New Year is a cause for celebration and a time for change. It's also a time to reflect on last year's course of events and resolve to make improvements. This New Year also signals a shift in the political climate after a November elect...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- APTA Urges Congress to Make a New Year's Resolution -- Reauthorize TEA 21 Now
- WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Transportation Association APTA is calling on Congress to make its number one New Year's resolution the swift passage of an expanded six- year surface transportation bill with increased investmeWASHINGTON, Dec. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American Public Transportation Association APTA is...
- Research articles 2003-12-22
- Visiting Congress Is Easy, Effective
- I won't admit to making New Years resolutions, but as a new year approaches I do take an inventory of my life and make a mental list of things I didn't get done the year before and what I'd like to accomplish during the upcoming year. After all, it's a...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- 2008 in the states--politics over policy: an overcrowded ballot will assure political posturing when Congress and state legislatures convene.(FW FOCUS: GOVERNMENT RELATIONS)
- As Americans head into the New Year, they may already be tiring of a presidential race that remains months away from its conclusion. Chances are the airwaves are already being infiltrated with ads "paid for by the Committee to Elect Me President As Americans head into...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
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- Budget, grant issues still in limbo - Washington Update - U.S. Congress fails to address student grants
- The U.S. Congress adjourned for the year without debating critical budget and student aid issues originally scheduled for approval in October. Pell Grants, college work-study, TRIO programs and aid to HBCUs will continue to receive only temporary funding for fiscal 2003, which began in October, due to on-going budget...
- Research articles 2002-12-19
- Louisiana--a bill passed in the U.S. Congress and signed by President Bush last month could give a big boost to restoring Louisiana's hurricane-damaged wetlands in the wake of Katrina.(States)
- LOUISIANA -- A bill passed in the U.S. Congress and signed by President Bush last month could give a big boost to restoring Louisiana's hurricane-damaged wetlands in the wake of Katrina. Current estimates are that Louisiana is losing 25 square miles of wetlands each year. ...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Facing a delay: New regulations for foreign visitors to the U.S.(TRAVEL)(Brief Article)
- Also facing a delay: New regs for foreign visitors to the U.S. Congress wants citizens of 27 countries, including most of Europe, to have high-tech passports to enter the U.S. without a visa. No country can meet Congress' October deadline for new passports, which...
- Research articles 2004-03-26
- DTN News: U.S. Navy's New Littoral Ship Prices To Be Revealed
- DTN News: U.S. Navy's New Littoral Ship Prices To Be Revealed *Source: DTN News / Defense Media NSI News Source Info WASHINGTON, DC - October 8, 2009: Contract prices for the U.S. Navy's two most recent Littoral Combat Ships LCS will be made public soon...
- News items 2009-10-07
- Composites and VOCs: plain and fancy ways to meet emissions rules: one year after EPA's MACT rules took effect, most FRP fabricators have complied via process modifications or low-styrene resins. But some big players have invested in much more elaborate t
- In 1990, the U.S. Congress enacted the Clean Air Act amendment, a law which directed the Environmental Protection Agency EPA to issue new limits on emissions of hazardous air pollutants HAPs in many industries, including the composites sector. Th In 1990, the U.S. Congress enacted the...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- U.S. Congress urged to repeal net receipts sharing - Brief Article
- Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission IOGCC Vice Chairman, Lawrence E. Bengal pushed for Congress to enact H.R. 4340, which will eliminate net receipts sharing--a system whereby states share the federal cost of managing onshore mineral royalties. However, the new law would allow for an equal sharing of royalties between...
- Research articles 2000-08-01
- U.S. lawmakers consider official slavery apology
- In the past year, five states have apologized for slavery, and the U.S. Congress is considering issuing its own apology, USA Today recently reported. While it has apologized before, Congress has never apologized for slavery. "We've seen states step forward on this," said Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), noting...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- New Opportunities and Challenges for Ocean Science Research
- The year 2007 will he a time of change, challenge and opportunity for the ocean sciences research community. The U.S. drillship for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program IODP will return to operation with refurbished laboratories, improved drilling capabilities and better living quarters. U.S. Congress-willing, the Ocean Observatories Initiative OOI will...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- 106th Congress Gets Off To Slow Start.
- GSPB Readies Agenda for 1999, Stays the Course Amid Turmoil In the first days of the new year, the U.S. Senate is preoccupied with a trial to potentially oust President Clinton from office. The U.S. House of Representatives is reeling from a leadership...
- Research articles 1999-01-19
- U.S. ports face brighter funding picture in 2001.
- It never comes easy for U.S. ports: Every year seems to bring a new struggle for attention and funding from Congress. This year, though, might be a bit different. Passage of key pieces of legislation during the 106th Congress should allow ports to ge It never...
- Research articles 2001-01-01
- Ten Things The Taxpayer Should Know About The U.S. Auto Industry Now That They Own It
- Posted by: David Kiley on December 19 During the hearings for an auto bailout, there was plenty said about Americaâ??s carmakers and the United Auto Workers. Some criticism was dead on, but much of it was either way off base or exaggerated. As is most often the case when rhetoric...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Financial Reforms Grind Forward in Congress
- By Kevin DrawbaughWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress edged closer on Wednesday to creating new government powers to break up giant financial firms, which Europe is already doing, while a U.S. derivatives market crackdown got more complicated.More than a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers and massive government bailouts...
- News items 2009-11-19
- "Cash for Clunkers" Won't Help the U.S. Auto Industry
- At first glance, the "cash for clunkers" proposal to retire older cars from America's fleet makes a lot of sense. Motorists get a voucher worth up to $5,000 for scrapping older, polluting autos and buying new, fuel-efficient models. There are two competing plans before Congress, with the main difference being...
- Blog posts 2009-04-16
- How to make 1.7 million new clean energy jobs permanent
- by Brad Johnson The challenges facing President Obama and the U.S. Congress have not gone away. Paul Krugman worries that " unemployment is likely to stay near its current level for a year or more," because "much of the political establishment now sees stimulus as having been...
- News items 2009-12-01
- What's Next: 4 Big Predictions for the U.S. Economy
- The global landscape has changed for good. Here are our biggest predictions for after the shakeout — plus suggestions for what you should do about them. ...
- Articles 2009-06-22
- It's a new year. Is the worst over for the markets?
- LONDON — Investors begin the first full week of 2009 trading on Monday with one question in mind: Is the worst over? Given that a 38 per cent loss on the broad U.S. S&P 500 stock index last year was actually one of the better performances on stock markets, it...
- News items 2009-08-07
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