QUEENS, New York, Feb. 8 -- The City University of New York's Queens College issued the following news release: * * * - Collection documenting 30 years of Crowley's public service will be made available for research purposes * * * Former United States Congressman and Queens College alumnus Joseph Crowley '85 donated his congressional papers to the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library at Queens College in a deed signing event at the school on Thursday, February 7. The collection, comprising items d more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- Citizens Against Government Waste issued the following statement by President Tom Schatz: Today, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) President Tom Schatz released the following statement following the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing entitled, "Preserving an Open Internet for Consumers, Small Businesses, and Free Speech." "Today's hearing was in desperate need of a fact check. In 2015 under former Chairman Tom Wheeler, t more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Feb. 6 -- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons issued the following news release: * * * - AAD CEO and former HHS regional director to take helm of world's largest group of heart and lung surgeons * * * The Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) has hired Elaine Weiss, JD, as its Executive Director beginning in April 2019. She replaces Robert A. Wynbrandt, JD, who is retiring after more than 30 years with the Society--17 years as Executive Director & General Counsel and 15 years as more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -- ProEnglish, an advocate of English language, issued the following news: The English Language Unity Act has been filed in the United States House of Representatives in the 116th Congress. The bill, also known as H.R. 997, has 5 original co-sponsors. H.R. 997 designates English as the nation's official language of governmental operations and establishes a uniform language requirement for the citizen naturalization process. H.R. 997 had the support of 73 members of the U.S more PR

CORVALLIS, Oregon, Feb. 4 -- Oregon State University issued the following news: Twenty-five years into a 100-year federal strategy to protect older forests in the Pacific Northwest, forest losses to wildfire are up and declines in bird populations have not been reversed, new research shows. The findings, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, underscore the importance of continuing to prioritize the safeguarding of older forests, the scientists say - forests ch more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 -- The office of Sen. David Perdue, R-Georgia, issued the following news release: * * * - Previews President Trump's State of the Union on PBS NewsHour * * * U.S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA) joins Judy Woodruff on PBS NewsHour to preview President Trump's State of the Union address and the critical need for border security. Click here to watch: https://youtu.be/u9AJVL33oRk Highlights: Dealmaker: "Tonight, in the State of the Union, you'll hear President Trump offer a  more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The office of Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following floor statement on the Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act (S.1): "Mr. President -- I come to the Senate Floor today with a sense of great disappointment -- disappointment in what my colleague, the senior senator from Florida and the Republican Leader have done with the bill before us today. Because they have taken a bill that had broad -- maybe unanimous -- bipartisan support and tri more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, Feb. 5 -- The University of California Los Angeles campus issued the following news release: * * * - Scientist whose work led to development of Herceptin honored for innovations in molecularly targeted treatments * * * Dr. Dennis Slamon, director of the Revlon/UCLA Women's Cancer Research Program, has been named a co-winner of the 2019 Sjoberg Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Sweden's Sjoberg Foundation. Honored for his groundbreaking research that  more PR