WASHINGTON, DC – Alaska’s Coast Guard, energy projects, waterway and port improvements and Village Safe Water projects have had millions in needed funds allotted from several subcommittees’ proposed fiscal year 2012 appropriations bills — and today were supported by Senator Murkowski and her colleagues in the Senate Appropriations Committee.
U.S. commercial fishermen landed 8.2 billion pounds of seafood in 2010, valued at $4.5 billion, an increase of 200 million pounds and more than $600 million in value over 2009, according to a new report released today by NOAA.
WASHINGTON D.C.-Despite the urging from the Pentagon, President Obama is considering lowering troop levels to only 3,000 troops in Iraq after the troop withdrawal date agreed upon by the Bush administration and the Iraqi government. The deadline for withdrawing all troops is the end of December. Pentagon officials have pushed for a minimum level of […]
WASHINGTON D.C.-According to Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe, as he spoke at a Senate hearing Tuesday, the U.S. Postal Service is on the verge of financial collapse and "Failure to act could be catastrophic." He asked lawmakers to allow him to make radical changes in order to stave off defaulting on the institution's obligations.