WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- A coalition of 22 Attorneys General has sent a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of Education expressing strong opposition to a proposed rule that seeks to amend the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. The letter emphasizes that the suggested changes would be detrimental to student borrowers and public service employers alike. The Proposed Rule, which was published in the Federal Register on August 18, 2025, is described as unlawful by the coalitio  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- Thirty-five osteopathic specialty and state associations expressed serious concerns in a public comment letter sent to the U.S. Department of Education regarding proposed modifications to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. The letter, supported by 34 affiliated osteopathic specialty and state associations representing nearly 200,000 osteopathic physicians and medical students, warns that the changes could adversely affect the nation's healthcare workforce  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- A coalition of nine county government and advocacy groups has submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service regarding the proposed Forest Plan Amendments aimed at managing old-growth conditions across the National Forest System. The letter, which comes in response to a December 2023 notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, emphasizes the need for collaboration with local governments as the agency develops its environmental i  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 19 -- The Arizona Corporation Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2025: * * * Commissioner Walden Votes to Eliminate Programs That Drive Up Costs to Arizonans On Wednesday, September 17, 2025 during the Arizona Corporation Commission's Open Meeting, Commissioner Rachel Walden voted to repeal the Commission's Energy Efficiency (EE) and Demand Side Management (DSM) Rules put in place in 2010 and that expired in 2020. "I cast my vote to repeal the ru  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 (TNSjou) -- The Department of Energy Office of Science Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory issued the following news: * * * How Microbes Can Transform Carbon Found Deep in Peatlands A new multi-platform approach demonstrates the ability to uncover intricate microbial metabolisms in complex peatland soils. * A multi-institutional team of researchers demonstrated the ability of a new multi-platform approach to "dive deep" and uncover complicated metabolic dynamic  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Gallego Backs Legislation to Save Social Security from Trump Cuts * WASHINGTON - Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), backed the Keep Billionaires Out of Social Security Act. The legislation reverses the disastrous cuts the Trump administration has made to the Social Security Administration (SSA), prevents Social Security field offices from shutting down, makes it easier for seniors and people with disab  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Gallego, Hagerty Introduce Legislation to Prevent Financial Exploitation of Seniors * Today, Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN) introduced the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act, legislation to give the financial industry better tools to address suspected financial exploitation and abuse of seniors and those with mental and physical disabilities.  "Far too many Arizona's se  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * Gallego, Young Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Help First-Time Homebuyers * WASHINGTON - Today, Senators Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) and Todd Young (R-IN) introduced the Uplifting First-Time Homebuyers Act to help more Americans buy their first home by increasing the Individual Retirement Account (IRA) tax exception withdrawal limit for first-time homebuyers. "Homeownership is the cornerstone of the Ameri  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Missouri, issued the following news release: * * * Hearing Wrap Up: Expanded School Choice Boosts American Students' Academic Performance * Today, the Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs held a hearing on " Opening Doors to Opportunity: The Promise of Expanded School Choice and Alternatives to Four-Year College Degrees (link is external)." During the hearing, members examined the benefits of expanded school choi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Rep. Abraham Hamadeh, R-Arizona, issued the following news release: * * * House Passes Congressman Hamadeh's Bipartisan Veterans' Health and Education Access Bills * This week, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed Congressman Abe Hamadeh's (AZ-08) bipartisan bills, the Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship Opportunity Act and the Health Professionals Scholarship Program (HPSP) Improvement Act of 2025.  Congressman Hamadeh proudly joined Congresswoman   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 -- The Moapa Band of Paiutes Tribal Historic Preservation Office has submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service raising critical concerns regarding the rollback of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The tribal group asserts that these changes could profoundly impact their traditional ecological knowledge and sacred sites, particularly along the Salt Song Trail, which holds deep cultural significance for the Southern Paiutes   more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 19 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NASA's Deep Space Communications Demo Exceeds Project Expectations The project has exceeded all of its technical goals after two years, setting up the foundations of high-speed communications for NASA's future human missions to Mars. NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications technology successfully showed that data encoded in lasers could be reliably transmitted, received, and decoded af  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Rep. Brad Sherman, D-California, issued the following news release: * * * Over 3,000 Join Congressman Brad Sherman's Town Hall on ICE Raids, Shutdown Threat & Rising Political Violence * SHERMAN OAKS, CA - Last night, over 3,000 residents joined Congressman Brad Sherman's (CA-32) Telephone Town Hall with Los Angeles Councilmember Traci Park and California Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin. The conversation centered around urgent local and national issues: ICE deportation ra  more

MENLO PARK, California, Sept. 18 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Remote eyes on the sky: Inside SLAC's Rubin control room * By Gaelle Suter It's April 2025, and the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory control room at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is buzzing with activity. On the Menlo Park campus in California, on the first floor of the home of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (ex  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: * * * Speaker Johnson Encourages Unanimous Support for Charlie Kirk Resolution on House Floor * WASHINGTON -- This afternoon, Speaker Johnson spoke on the House floor in support of his resolution honoring the life of Charlie Kirk. He encouraged his colleagues in the House to send a bipartisan message that political violence - and the glorification and celebration of violence - are profoundly wrong and   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Rep.) -- House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: * * * Speaker Johnson Encourages Unanimous Support for Charlie Kirk Resolution on House Floor * WASHINGTON -- This afternoon, Speaker Johnson spoke on the House floor in support of his resolution honoring the life of Charlie Kirk. He encouraged his colleagues in the House to send a bipartisan message that political violence - and the glorification and celebration of violence - are profo  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, Sept. 19 -- The Arizona Corporation Commission issued the following news release on Sept. 18, 2025: * * * Vice Chair Myers Votes with ACC to Repeal Outdated Energy Efficiency Mandate At the Arizona Corporation Commission's (ACC) September 17, 2025, regular open meeting, Vice Chairman Nick Myers joined the Commission in a 5-0 vote to direct ACC Staff to file a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with the Secretary of State's Office to repeal the Electric Energy Efficiency Mandate (  more