While wet and snowy weather has dominated the western U.S., persistent drought conditions are likely to linger in the Southern Plains and Southeast through mid to late spring, according to NOAA’s National Weather Service. La Niña has kept storms and most of their precipitation in the north, leaving the South drier than normal. “The speed […]
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2011 – Today, Agriculture Secretary Vilsack issued the following statement on the healthcare vote in the U.S. House of Representatives: “For far too long, folks living in rural America have suffered from a broken health care system – more so than their urban counterparts – with higher costs and less access to […]
Washington, Jan 19 – Iowa Congressman Tom Latham voted on Wednesday to repeal President Obama’s job-destroying health care law off the books as he prepares replacement health care legislation that addresses the actual concerns of Iowans. The House voted 245 – 189 to repeal the health care legislation, which was supported by President Obama and […]
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Leonard Boswell voted against H.R. 2, the Patients’ Right to Repeal Act, which repeals current health care law that protects Iowa’s families, seniors, and workers from insurance company abuses. Boswell released the following statement on his vote. “Instead of focusing on what Iowans really care about, which is jobs and […]
Washington D.C.- Congressman Steve King (R-IA) released the following statement after the House of Representatives voted to pass his language repealing ObamaCare this afternoon by a vote of 245 to 189. King’s language to repeal the law “as if such Act had not been enacted” was included by House Leadership in H.R. 2, the Repealing […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services released a new report showing that, without the Affordable Care Act, up to 129 million Americans under the age of 65 who have a pre-existing health condition would be […]
Provision to Provide Extra Nutrition Assistance to Children in Child Care Settings WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2010 – USDA today announced the nationwide expansion of at-risk afterschool meals to promote improvements in health and nutrition in Child Care settings. The expansion is part of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 signed into law by President […]
The Commerce Department’s U.S. Census Bureau today released data on new residential construction in December 2010. Permits for new homes jumped 16.7 percent in December compared with private-sector expectations of a 2.9 percent increase. Scheduled changes in building codes in January in California, New York and Pennsylvania may have been responsible for much of the […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Natroba (spinosad) Topical Suspension 0.9% for the treatment of head lice infestation in patients ages 4 years and older. Head lice are parasitic insects found on people’s head, eyebrows, and eyelashes. They feed on human blood several times a day but are not known to cause disease. […]
WASHINGTON – A U.S. Army contracting officer was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Christine M. Arguello in Denver to 60 months in prison for accepting money and items of value in return for being influenced in the awarding of Army contracts, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. Judge Arguello […]
