Washington DC - February 8 - President Barack Obama called on Republicans to meet for a televised bipartisan discussion to move the debate forward on health care reform, as reported in The Washington Post.

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Washington DC - February 8 - A monthly survey of human resource managers in more than 1,000 companies across the country shows February 2010 hiring rising, compared with one year ago.  This finding continues the recent pattern of slow and steady employment gains.

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Washington DC - February 8 - Scientists hope to get a glimpse of the future with a proposed experiment facility in northern Minnesota that would allow them to adjust temperatures and levels of carbon dioxide across a broad range of possibilities projected by climate models.

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Washington DC - February 8 - U.S. cotton producers intend to plant 10.1 million acres of cotton this spring, up more than 10 percent from 2009, according to the National Cotton Council’s 27th Annual Early Season Planting Intentions Survey.

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Washington DC - February 8 - Overall U.S. job growth continued to be undermined by the severe downturn affecting the construction industry as another 75,000 construction workers lost their jobs in January 2010 and the industry’s unemployment rate jumped to 24.7 percent.

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Washington DC - February 8 - Wisconsin lawmakers Senator Russ Feingold and Congressman Paul Ryan are urging President Obama to support their line item veto legislation to help eliminate wasteful congressional earmarks.

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Washington DC - February 8 - The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the United States will work with its partners around the world to relieve all debts owed by Haiti to international institutions and to ensure grant financing to support Haiti’s reconstruction and recovery from the devastating earthquake in January.

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Washington DC - February 8 - Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announced that USDA will develop a new, flexible framework for animal disease traceability in the United States, and undertake several other actions to further strengthen its disease prevention and response capabilities.

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Washington DC - February 8 - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued guidance on Bayesian statistical methods in the design and analysis of medical device clinical trials that could result in less costly and more efficient patient studies.

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Washington DC - February 8 - The United States and Canada have reached a tentative agreement on government procurement which includes permanent and reciprocal commitments under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA) with respect to provincial, territorial and state procurement.

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Washington DC - February 8 - President Obama proposed the expansion of two critical Small Business Administration (SBA) lending programs, aimed at allowing small businesses to refinance and increasing limits for working capital.

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Washington DC - February 5 - A ferocious blizzard approaching the Nation’s Capitol has area residents loading up on provisions to weather out the weekend storm expected to drop two feet or more of snow on the region, as reported in The Washington Post.

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Washington DC - February 5 - EPA is requesting an increase in support to tribal programs to address critical needs in assessing environmental conditions on tribal lands and building environmental programs tailored to tribal needs.

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Washington DC - February 5 - The Federal Trade Commission moved to protect distressed homeowners from bogus foreclosure rescue and mortgage modification services by proposing a new rule that would forbid companies to charge up-front for these services.

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Washington DC - February 5 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today released action plans developed by 22 electric utility facilities with coal ash impoundments, describing the measures the facilities are taking to make their impoundments safer.

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