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Pickering’s
Mississippi E-Memo
Congressman
Chip Pickering
Monday – January
14, 2008 - #82
The U.S. House of Representatives
returns to legislative business
on Tuesday, January 15. President
George W. Bush will deliver his
final State of the Union Address
on January 28.
APPROPRIATIONS REQUESTS:
Fiscal Year 2009 appropriations
request forms for the Third Congressional
District are now online at Congressman
Chip Pickering’s web page: www.house.gov/pickering/appropriations -
the forms can be e-mailed or faxed
to the office. The deadline
for completed forms is close-of-business
on Friday, February 8, 2008.
RECENT PICKERING IN
THE NEWS:
Chip
Pickering, the honorable (Madison
County Journal: 1/10)
Chip
Pickering, the honorable (Neshoba
Democrat: 1/9)
Chip
Pickering put family first (McComb
Enterprise-Journal: 12/31)
For
Chip Pickering, family comes
first (Greenwood
Commonwealth: 12/29)
Do
not fall off the Do-Not-Call
list (Ohio News-Herald:
12/21)
Pickering:
MSU to see $35 M in funding (Starkville
Daily News: 12/21)
Network
will bost rural Miss. health
care (Clarion Ledger:
12/19)
Meridian
Projects Funded by Congress (WTOK:
12/19)
Ringing
endorsement for Do Not Call
list (Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette: 12/13)
Annoying
telemarketing calls may resume (West
Point Daily Times Leader: 12/12)
US
House Passes Doyle-Pickering "Do
Not Call Extension" Legislation (Release:
12/11)
RECENT THIRD DISTRICT
FUNDING ANNOUNCEMENTS:
$47,500
For Mize Volunteer Fire Department (1/2)
$75,454
for First Responder Equipment (12/20)
$35
Million for Mississippi State
University (12/20)
$1.7
Million for Southwest Mississippi (12/20)
$10.4
Million for Jackson-Metro area
projects (12/20)
$13.3
Million for Meridian projects (12/20)
FCC
Telehealth Grants Provide $5.8
Million to Two Mississippi
Projects (12/18)
$75,391
for Forest Fire Department (12/12)
$22,800
For Gibbstown-Lawrence VFD (12/6)
DTV TRANSITION: On
February 17, 2009, analog television
broadcasting will end for full-power
stations. After that date,
if you get TV broadcasts with an
antenna over the air, you will
receive only digital signals. This
does not mean you need to get a
new television set. There
will be converter boxes to change
the digital signal to one that
analog sets can receive. Beginning
in 2008, U.S. households may be
able to obtain up to two coupons
worth $40 each toward the purchase
of converter boxes. The program
will be run by the National Telecommunications
and Information Administration
(NTIA). For more information
on the digital conversion, including
information on a government coupon
program for converter boxes, please
visit: www.dtv.gov or www.dtvtransition.org online.
PICKERING STAFF: Visit www.house.gov/pickering/policy to
get office contact information.
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