Federal Government Closing Weather Tuesday! (LALATE)
February 8th, 2010
CLOSED! The Federal Government announced closings Tuesday due to the weather. The Federal Government closings for Tuesday concern non-emergency federal employees in the D.C. area. The closure is being detailed as the following. Non-emergency employees are being told to stay home Tuesday. The number of hours they were slotted to work on Tuesday will now be delegated [...]
Weather closes government offices a second day (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
February 8th, 2010
Federal government agencies in the capital region will remain closed for a second day on Tuesday as residents brace for another blizzard while trying to clean up from a weekend storm that paralyzed the area with two feet of snow.
Federal Government Closed Tuesday (NBC Washington)
February 8th, 2010
Federal government employees are getting another snow day.
Federal government closed Tuesday (Federal Times)
February 8th, 2010
The Office of Personnel Management announced the federal government will once again be closed tomorrow in Washington. This will be the second snow day in a row, and the third this winter. This screenshot at data.gov announcing the closure is apparently all that is left of OPM’s decimated Web site. The National Weather Service is forecasting [...]
Federal government closes: Why can’t they all work from home? (The Christian Science Monitor)
February 8th, 2010
All D.C.-area federal agencies were closed Monday after the snowstorm last weekend. Shutting down the federal government costs $100 million a day in lost productivity.
John Murtha, defense appropriations chair, dies (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
February 8th, 2010
Democratic Representative John Murtha, chairman of the House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee who exercised enormous influence on defense issues, died on Monday.
Rep. John Murtha, voice for veterans, dies at 77 (AP via Yahoo! News)
February 8th, 2010
Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77.
Iraq War Critic John Murtha Dead at 77 (TV Guide)
February 8th, 2010
John Murtha , an influential congressman and Iraq war critic who drew scrutiny for his wheeler-dealer ways, died Monday after suffering complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77. Read More Other Links From TVGuide.com George W. Bush John Murtha
John Murtha dies at 77; Pennsylvania Democrat forcefully opposed Iraq war in Congress (Chicago Tribune)
February 8th, 2010
Rep. Murtha, the first Vietnam veteran to serve in Congress, called in 2005 for an immediate pullout of U.S. forces from Iraq. He also delivered billions in federal dollars to his home state. John Murtha, the Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania and decorated former Marine whose fierce opposition to the Iraq war helped catalyze public sentiment against the conflict, died Monday. He was 77.
Rep. John Murtha dies at 77 (CNN)
February 8th, 2010
Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, a longtime fixture on the House subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending, died after complications from gallbladder surgery, according to his office. He was 77.