Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2010. “Today’s bipartisan Committee vote is an important step forward in our effort to create jobs, save consumers money, and increase energy efficiency. In my State of the Union Address and in the months since, I have called on Congress to pass a program of incentives to[Read More…]
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Remarks by President Obama on Space Exploration in the 21st Century
Merritt Island, Florida–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2010 – 2:55 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, everybody. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody. Please have a seat. Thank you. I want to thank Senator Bill Nelson and NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden for their extraordinary leadership. I want to recognize[Read More…]
White House Press Gaggle by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton en route Cape Canaveral, Florida
Aboard Air Force One, En Route Cape Canaveral, Florida–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2010 – 12:46 P.M. EDT MR. BURTON: All right, so, a couple things here before start. Q Sorry, Bill, can you try to speak louder? MR. BURTON: You bet. Tomorrow the President will host a meeting of the President’s Economic[Read More…]
Interim Fort Hood Recommendations Approved by Department of Defense
Washington, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—April 15, 2010. The Department of Defense announced today near-term actions to address gaps and deficiencies in personnel policies, force protection measures, emergency response, mass casualty preparedness and support to DoD healthcare providers identified by the DoD Independent Review panel. The actions follow-up on 26 of the 79 recommendations[Read More…]
DHS Announces Recovery Act Purchase of 1,200 Explosives Trace Detection Units to Bolster Aviation Security
Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2010. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the purchase of more than 1,200 explosives trace detection units using $35.5 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding—improving explosives detection capabilities at airports nationwide while infusing Recovery Act dollars into local economies. “These[Read More…]
New Commerce Report Shows Growing Exports Key to Job Creation
WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2010. A U.S. Department of Commerce report released today confirms the importance of exports to the U.S. economy and the increasingly globalized marketplace. According to Exports Support American Jobs, in 2008, exports accounted for a record 12.7 percent of U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), and during a period[Read More…]
UN Welcomes Arrangement Enabling Kyrgyz Ex-President to Depart
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–15 April 2010 – The Secretary-General today welcomed the arrangement between Kyrgyzstan’s Provisional Government and former president Kurmanbek Bakiyev that has enabled him to leave the country. “The Secretary-General believes that this is an important step toward the peaceful, stable, prosperous and democratic development of the country and its[Read More…]
Four Missing AU-UN Peacekeepers Remain Unaccounted For in Darfur
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–15 April 2010 – Four South African peacekeeping serving with the joint African Union-United Nations force in the volatile western Sudanese region of Darfur who went missing on Sunday remain unaccounted for, the mission said, adding that they could have been seized by kidnappers or carjackers. “Despite an all-out[Read More…]
Iraq War Vet: ‘We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us’
By Dahr Jamail t r u t h o u t | Report On Monday, April 5, Wikileaks.org posted video footage from Iraq, taken from a US military Apache helicopter in July 2007 as soldiers aboard it killed 12 people and wounded two children.The dead included two employees of the[Read More…]
Hundreds Dead Following 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake in China
CHINA–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2010. The U.S. Geological Survey has reported that a 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck at 7:49 a.m. local time (7:49 p.m. ET Tuesday) in the Southern Qinghai region of China. Several strong aftershocks, one of which was reported as a 5.8 magnitude, stuck within hours of the initial quake.[Read More…]
