News and reports from the Department of the Interior.

The Senate section of the Congressional Record published “LAND GRANT-MERCEDES TRADITIONAL USE RECOGNITION AND CONSULTATION ACT” on Dec. 22, 2022.

The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on a slate of legislation, including three Republican bills, which all passed with unanimous support. Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response:

House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) and Pete Stauber (R-Minn.) led a letter to congressional appropriators, requesting that any year-end funding package prohibit federal funding for the listing of the northern long-eared bat (NLEB) as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In part, the members wrote:

U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 8393, the Puerto Rico Status Act, with a vote of 233-191.

U.S. House of Representatives passed three Republican bills under suspension of the rules.

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, praised the announcement from Form Energy, Inc. (Form Energy) that they have entered into an agreement with the State of West Virginia to build the first iron-air battery manufacturing facility along the Ohio River in the city of Weirton.

This week, after months of bipartisan and bicameral negotiations, the Committees on Appropriations introduced a $1.7 trillion omnibus appropriations bill for fiscal year 2023.

I am pleased to announce that late last night, I introduced the bipartisan, bicameral, fiscal year 2023 omnibus appropriations bill

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Monday released the $1.7 trillion fiscal year 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill.

Vice Chairman Shelby, Chair DeLauro, and I reached a bipartisan, bicameral framework that should allow us to finish an omnibus appropriations bill that can pass the House and Senate and be signed into law by the President.

In the final act of the 117th Congress, the Senate has passed (68-29) the Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) omnibus appropriations package containing all 12 appropriations measures, as well as $47 billion in emergency funding to support Ukraine’s valiant efforts to repulse Russian invaders and bring the conflict to an end and $38 billion in much-needed emergency disaster assistance.

The Fiscal Year 2023 (FY23) omnibus appropriations package containing all 12 appropriations measures was filed today in the U.S. Senate.

House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today called on Twitter employees who were responsible for censoring the New York Post’s reporting about the Biden family’s influence peddling to testify before the House Oversight Committee next Congress. In letters to Vijaya Gadde, former Chief Legal Officer, Yoel Roth, former Global Head of Trust & Safety, and James Baker, Deputy General Counsel, Ranking Member Comer calls on them to make arrangements to testify at a public hearing.