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Furlough Friday: Budget cuts mean an unpaid day off for many at IRS, HUD and other agencies
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — No one answered the tax-help hotline at the IRS on Friday. And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide. It was "furlough Friday." Roughly 5...Tags: Environmental Issues, Tea Party Movement, Budget Control Act of 2011, Holidays, Labor Markets
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Obama to nominate Penny Pritzker as Commerce secretary
WASHINGTON – Making official what many Democrats have expected for weeks, President Obama plans to nominate Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker, a longtime political supporter and heavyweight fundraiser, as his new Commerce secretary on...
Tags: Recreational Equipment Inc., Media Industry, Investments, Finance, U.S. Senate
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Penny Pritzker nominated for Commerce secretary
Tribune staffChicago business executive Penny Pritzker was nominated by President Barack Obama to become the new Secretary of Commerce on Thursday, in an expected move that could prove controversial for the longtime political supporter and fundraising heavyweight....Tags: Recreational Equipment Inc., Chicago Mortgages, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Investments, John Thune
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Sally Jewell affirms Everglades `a high priority'
She came, she saw, she toured by airboat, and she reaffirmed that the Obama administration remains committed “to the people of Florida to make the Everglades restoration a high priority.” Sally Jewell, less than three weeks into her job...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Boynton Beach, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Water Supply, Wildlife
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Sally Jewell's Senate Confirmation Has Big Implications For Alaska
Channel 2 NewsSally Jewell could become Alaska's new landlord of federal lands. By a vote of 87 to 11, the U.S. Senate has confirmed REI’s 56-year-old CEO Jewell as the next interior secretary -- a position that has big implications for Alaska. “The...Tags: Recreational Equipment Inc., Petroleum Industry, Wildlife, U.S. Senate
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Senate OKs Sally Jewell as new Interior secretary
WASHINGTON - The Senate approved REI Chief Executive Sally Jewell Wednesday as the new secretary of the Interior by a vote of 87 to 11. Jewell, 58, had faced tough questioning by some Senate Republicans during her confirmation hearing in early March....
Tags: Environmental Issues, Recreational Equipment Inc., U.S. Department of the Interior, Petroleum Industry, Lamar Alexander
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Sally Jewell, nominee for Interior, approved in Senate committee
WASHINGTON -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approved President Obama’s pick to lead the Interior Department, REI Chief Executive Sally Jewell, sending the nomination to the full Senate for consideration. At a time when...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Recreational Equipment Inc., U.S. Department of the Interior, Petroleum Industry, John Barrasso
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Interior Department To Take Second Look At King Cove Access Road
Channel 2 NewsThe Interior Department will take a second look at a proposed land exchange between the community of King Cove and the state of Alaska. The announcement Thursday morning came from Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski's office, and in a press release, stated...Tags: Ken Salazar, U.S. Department of the Interior, Politics, Wildlife, Interior Policy
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Interior pick puts outdoor industry in spotlight
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — She doesn't wear a cowboy hat favored by traditional picks for interior secretary. Sally Jewell prefers fleece and Gore-Tex jackets and wears a safety helmet when she needs it for scaling cliffs, skiing or kayaking. Jewell,...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Recreational Equipment Inc., Petroleum Industry, Lisa Murkowski, Conservation
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The challenges at the Interior Dept.
U.S. secretaries of the Interior have seldom been renowned for being … well, renowned. Typically affable former members of Congress who reliably see things according to the president's point of view, they are nearly always Western conservationists,...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Recreational Equipment Inc., U.S. Department of the Interior, Petroleum Industry, U.S. Congress
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Alaskans React To Jewell's Interior Nomination
Channel 2 NewsPresident Obama's announcement of Sally Jewell as his choice for Secretary of the Interior Wednesday prompted reaction from Alaskans in the resource development field as well as environmental preservationists. Nicole Whittington-Evans, Alaska Regional...Tags: Environmental Issues, Petroleum Industry, Wildlife, Barack Obama, Conservation
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