WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The National Council on Disability issued the following news release: The National Council on Disability (NCD)--an independent federal agency--today celebrates its 40-year anniversary of advancing federal disability policy through its advisory role to federal policymakers. On Nov. 6, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 95-602, replacing the former Title IV of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 with a new Title IV. The change established an advisory council within t  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, issued the following remarks at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol in the wake of the midterm election: "Good afternoon, everyone. And a good afternoon it is. It's a great day for the American people. "The biggest winner yesterday was the health care for American people, for our seniors, and hard-working American families. Health care was on the ballot, and health care won. "Yesterday, Americans elected an extraordina  more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 8 -- Res. Comm. Jenniffer Gonzalez-Colon, R-Puerto Rico, issued the following news release: As part of the Month to Honor Veterans, Resident Commissioner Jenniffer Gonzalez Colon presented Puerto Rican veteran Gilberto Castillo Mendez with several military decorations earned for his prominence in the Korean War, among them the Purple Heart. Gonzalez Colon presented Castillo with the Purple Heart medal earned for wounds received in the Korean War; the Combat Infantry  more

PIERRE, South Dakota, Nov. 9 -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard, R-South Dakota, issued the following column: When I was a young boy, sometimes on trips to town I would see an old soldier or sailor on the street. The Korean War was still fresh in our minds, and World War II as well. The veterans I spotted didn't go out of their way to be noticed. Folks around town just knew who they were and what they had done. They were some of my boyhood heroes, and on Veterans Day, the whole town turned out to recogniz  more

PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colorado, Nov. 5 -- The U.S. Air Force (21st Space Wing) issued the following news: By Staff Sgt. Zachary Sheely Public Affairs "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant retaliation to a Soviet attack? That we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil, or that of our allies." From President Ronald Reagan's March 23, 1983 address to the nation. COL  more