News from April 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced today that, during the COVID-19 crisis, the U.S. Attorney’s Office is reaffirming its commitment under the Fair Housing Act to combat sexual harassment in housing.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement on a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing recommendations to the federal government for better determining the magnitude and reducing the impact of antibiotic resistance...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As members of Congress continue to examine the many ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting state economies and services, as well as Americans' personal finances, today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released new tables from the 2019 Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture Chairman Jim Costa of California released the following statement following President Trump's executive order to keep meat processing plants open...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: DEVILS TOWER, WY - Superintendent Amnesty Kochanowski announced the selection of two new leadership team members at Devils Tower National Monument - Facility Manager, Brent Keay and Integrated Resources Program Manager Russ Cash. Keay began on March 29 and Cash on April 12, 2020.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee joined a press call hosted by Alliance for Justice to speak out against Senator McConnell’s plan to focus on confirming judges who are on record opposing the Affordable...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: In a whole-of-government effort, the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Veterans Affairs have worked very closely together throughout the coronavirus pandemic to bring critical medical supplies to our nation’s heroes. While the supply and demand for personal protective equipment during this crisis is greater than ever before, the federal government has worked with governmental and private sector partners to secure what the VA needs.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C., April 28, 2020) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue released the following statement after President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to keep meat and poultry processing facilities open during the COVID-19 national emergency.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: Pandemic EBT to Feed Children during COVID-19 National Emergency (Washington, D.C., April 28, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced Maryland and New Mexico have been approved to operate Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), a new program authorized by the Families First ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: Mary K. Paulo, a former employee of a Missouri residential treatment facility, pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Western District of Missouri to an obstruction of justice charge related to the death of C.D., a Missouri ward of the state with developmental disabilities. Paulo pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly falsifying a document with the intent to impede, obstruct, and influence an investigation related to the death of C.D.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – On Apr. 24, 2020, a federal appellate court upheld an order enforcing an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) summons directed to the Taylor Lohmeyer Law Firm PLLC, the Department of Justice announced. The summons directed the law firm to provide information about clients who used the law firm’s ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following statement from Solicitor of Labor Kate O’Scannlain and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for OSHA Loren Sweatt regarding Meat and Poultry Processing Facilities: “The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Centers ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today commemorated Workers’ Memorial Day with a joint statement from U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), Loren Sweatt.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today issued deadline relief and other guidance under Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to help employee benefit plans, plan participants and beneficiaries, employers and other plan sponsors, plan fiduciaries, and other service providers impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today commemorated Workers’ Memorial Day with a joint statement from U.S. Secretary of Labor Eugene Scalia and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), Loren Sweatt.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor issued the following statement from Solicitor of Labor Kate O’Scannlain and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for OSHA Loren Sweatt regarding Meat and Poultry Processing Facilities: “The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Centers ...
By Labor Gazette | Apr 28, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) today issued deadline relief and other guidance under Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to help employee benefit plans, plan participants and beneficiaries, employers and other plan sponsors, plan fiduciaries, and other service providers impacted by the coronavirus outbreak.
