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The following is political activity for Friday, February 25, 2011, going on in Washington and across the nation. It is courtesy of Scott Wilk, Community Organizer, and Anchor Consulting group. The Beacon will be posting these daily as they become available.

IN THE HOUSE

  1. The House is not in session.
  2. House Freshmen Take Plans for Cuts Home  -  Representative Allen West clicked through his PowerPoint presentation on last week’s doings among his fellow House Republicans, and those of his constituents who gathered here Tuesday night to hear him whooped with glee. (New York Times)

IN THE SENATE

  1. The Senate is not in session.
  2. Democrats push cuts to counter Republicans  -  After days of overwrought press releases, Congress stepped back from the precipice Thursday, with Senate Democrats embracing new spending cuts even as House Republicans softened the tone of their nearly $4 billion ransom demand to avert a government shutdown next Friday. (Politico)

OTHER NEWS

  1. Governors head to D.C., minds set on economy  -  Most of the rest of the nation’s governors are leaving their state capitals for the annual winter meeting here of the National Governors Association. It’s the largest class of new governors in history; 29 were elected last year. (USA Today)
  2. Obama Aides Say Social Security No Threat to Nation’s Finances  -  Obama administration officials are rejecting the idea of making major changes to Social Security as part of a debate over reining in the national debt, a stance that’s drawing protests from deficit-cutting advocates. (Business Week)
  3. Petraeus calls for investigation into ‘psychological operations’ allegations  -  Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, on Thursday called for an investigation into allegations that the commander of the American mission to train Afghan security forces ordered military personnel to manipulate visiting U.S. lawmakers into providing additional funding and support for the mission there. (Los Angeles Times)
  4. Troopers Hunt for Wisconsin Senators  -  Wisconsin Republican lawmakers dispatched state troopers to the homes of absent Democratic senators in search of a quorum Thursday but came up empty as the state’s legislative standoff continued. (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Huckabee toys with White House run  -  Mike Huckabee isn’t tamping down speculation of another presidential run. But he isn’t doing much to prepare for what on Thursday he called the “sausage grinder of a campaign.” (USA Today)

FEDERAL GRANT OF THE DAY

  • Preservation and Access Research and Development Grants- Preservation and Access Research and Development grants support projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources. These challenges include the need to find better ways to preserve materials of critical importance to the nation’s cultural heritage—from fragile artifacts and manuscripts to analog recordings and digital assets subject to technological obsolescence—and to develop advanced modes of searching, discovering, and using such materials. Applicants should define a specific problem, devise procedures and potential solutions, and explain how they would evaluate their projects and disseminate their findings. Project results must serve the needs of a significant segment of humanists. Eligible projects include the development of technical standards, best practices, and tools for preserving and creating access to humanities collections; the exploration of more effective scientific and technical methods of preserving humanities collections; the development of automated procedures and computational tools to integrate, analyze, and repurpose humanities data in disparate online resources; and the investigation and testing of new ways of providing digital access to humanities materials that are not easily digitized using current methods. NEH especially encourages applications that address the following topics: Digital Preservation: how to preserve digital humanities materials, including born-digital materials, for which there is no analog counterpart; Recorded Sound and Moving Image Collections: how to preserve and increase access to the record of the twentieth century contained in these formats; and Preventive Conservation: how to protect and slow the deterioration of humanities collections through the use of sustainable preservation strategies.  For more information, see NEH.

TODAY IN HISTORY

  • February 25, 1964- On this day, Cassius Clay (who later changed his name to Muhammad Ali) became the world heavyweight boxing champion by defeating Sonny Liston in Miami Beach.

Source and thanks to www.anchor-consult.com / For more information, contact Anchor Consulting at 703-333-6013