Day: March 5, 2012

Rep. Schakowsky Statement on Disrespectful and Inappropriate Attacks Against Sandra Fluke

WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2012.  Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following statement last week in response to the disrespectful and inappropriate attacks leveled on Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke who testified at a hearing held by the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee on the issue of women’s[Read More…]

NTSB Chairman Offers Support for National Sleep Awareness Week

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2012.  For decades, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has investigated accidents and incidents, across all modes of transportation where fatigue was a causal or contributory factor. National Sleep Awareness Week (March 5-9) and the start of daylight savings time on Sunday, reminds transportation operators and the public[Read More…]

Statement by US State Department on Presidential Elections in Russia

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2012.  The United States congratulates the Russian people on the completion of the Presidential elections, and looks forward to working with the President-elect after the results are certified and he is sworn in. The United States endorses the preliminary report of the observer mission of the Organization[Read More…]

Madigan, FTC, BBB and Advocates Warn Consumers to Phone Bill Scam

Chicago–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2012.  Attorney General Lisa Madigan today joined with the Federal Trade Commission, Chicago Better Business Bureau and consumer advocates to warn Illinoisans about a scam known as phone bill ‘cramming’ that has hit hundreds of thousands of consumers and businesses with bogus charges on their phone bills. “Phone[Read More…]

Secretary Chu Announces Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia to Join National Clean Fleets Partnership

INDIANAPOLIS, IN–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2012.  Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced that four new corporate partners – Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia – are joining the Energy Department’s National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the[Read More…]

NOW Political Action Committee Proudly Endorses Elizabeth Warren for US Senate

Statement of NOW/PAC Chair Terry O’Neill Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2012.  The National Organization for Women Political Action Committee is proud to announce its endorsement of Elizabeth Warren for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts. Warren is the most prominent of three Democrats vying to run against incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown in[Read More…]

Nurses Join Seniors in Oakland Action to Tell Congress: Hands Off Social Security and Medicare

CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2012.  The California Nurses Association/National Nurses United will join the California Alliance for Retired Americans  and other community activists Tuesday to picket the Oakland appearance of Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson who will be in town promoting their call for a deficit plan that features sweeping cuts in[Read More…]

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