FORT BELVOIR, Virginia, Oct. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: When the Defense Supply Agency started operations in 1961, then-director Army Lt. Gen. Andrew T. McNamara realized the new agency must do two things to succeed. First, it had to provide common supplies more efficiently than the services. Second, it had to help boost warfighter readiness. By its first anniversary in October 1962, DSA saved more money than the Defense Department more PR

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Oct. 25 -- The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law issued the following news release: Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia ("HOME"), a civil rights organization with the mission to ensure equal access to housing for all, along with individuals Mara Kniaz and Kuir Phillips, filed suit to challenge an unlawful and overly restrictive criminal background screening policy applied by Kay Management Company and its associated entities ("Defendants") at their pro more PR

WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania, Oct. 25 -- The Pennsylvania Senate Democrats issued the following news release: Phoenixville Mayor Peter Urscheler was recently honored on the floor of the Pennsylvania Senate by state Senator Andy Dinniman.Earlier this year, Urscheler was named one of 10 Outstanding Young Americans by Junior Chamber International (JCI), a non-profit international non-governmental organization of young people between 18 and 40 years old. Urscheler was selected from an intense and com more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., has introduced legislation (S. 2681) to "promote and ensure delivery of high-quality special education and related services to students with visual disabilities or who are deaf or hard of hearing or deaf-blind through instructional methodologies meeting their unique learning needs, to enhance accountability for the provision of such services." The bill was introduced on Oct. 23 and was co-sponsored by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. It w more ST

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., has introduced legislation (S. 2698) to "establish a U.S. Global Health Commission and a United States Global Health Attache Program." The bill was introduced on Oct. 24. It was referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. For more information, Sen. Edward J. Markey, 255 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510; 202/224-2742; or in the state at 975 President John F. Kennedy Federal Bldg., 222 Milliken Blvd., Ste. 312, Fa more ST

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., has introduced legislation (S. 2699) to "reauthorize the Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring Act of 2009." The bill was introduced on Oct. 24 and was co-sponsored by Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska. It was referred to the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. For more information, Sen. Edward J. Markey, 255 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510; 202/224-2742; or in the state at 975 President Joh more ST

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation subcommittee on Science, Oceans, Fisheries and Weather issued the following testimony by Diane Souvaine, chair of the National Science Board, at a hearing entitled "Research and Innovation: Ensuring America's Economic and Strategic Leadership": "Science has long been at the heart of the American experiment. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest," noted Benjamin Franklin, and the revolutionaries who founde more PR