News from April 2020
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., today for a briefing and discussion on the agency’s ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members held a bipartisan teleconference with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn, M.D., today for a briefing and discussion on the agency’s ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA) responded to the Trump administration’s announcement that it has finalized its rule to roll back clean water protections over the Nation’s rivers, streams, and wetlands, jeopardizing the safe drinking water of over a hundred million American households.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area is recruiting teachers to participate in the Teacher-Ranger-Teacher (TRT) program this summer. The TRT program is a professional development opportunity for K-12 teachers to spend the summer acquiring new skills in experiential learning through a program...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman announced that six tribes will share $1.1 million through the Native American Affairs Technical Assistance to Tribes Program to develop, manage and protect water and related resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Utah U.S. Attorney John W. Huber shared highlights of the Department of Justice’s China Initiative with law enforcement agents and officers, private sector business representatives, university officials, and others at a Salt Lake City Security Webinar Wednesday morning. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the FBI sponsored the webinar.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Stole the Gun from a Family Member.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement in recognition of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: Dear President Trump: We write to urge you to waive all cost-share requirements for the emergency declarations declared on March 13, 2020 and any subsequent major disaster declarations for all states, tribes, territories, and the District of Columbia for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. By invoking Section...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement to recognize the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Special agents with the FBI this morning arrested a San Gabriel Valley man and online promoter of the involuntary celibate (incel) subculture on a federal cyberstalking charge that he conducted an internet harassment campaign against two teenage girls who rejected his sexual advances.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - With families encouraged to stay at home due to the nationwide health crisis, the Drug Enforcement Administration is asking Americans to keep prescription medications safe and secure until they can properly dispose of them.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: "As part of National Crime Victims' Rights Week, the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office pauses to acknowledge and remember those who have been victims of crime in our state. We are continuously inspired by their brave stories of survival and recovery. My office and I have made victims - and victim rights...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence chiropractor has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he allegedly executed a scheme to defraud health care benefits programs and that he allegedly failed to pay taxes to the IRS for some of the income he received from his business, according to documents filed in federal court in Providence.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to Tulsa County, Oklahoma, to improve critical infrastructure needed to protect businesses from flood damage. The EDA grant, which is located in a Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Opportunity Zone, will be matched with $750,000 in local investment and is expected to retain nearly 1,560 jobs.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: Posts Notice of Funding Opportunity WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is making $10 million available to help local communities more effectively combat terrorism and targeted violence across the United States. The $10 million appropriated by Congress under the Fiscal Year 2020 Targeted ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: “The Department of Homeland Security recommended the FCC deny the Ligado license and remains concerned that an approval creates a high degree of uncertainty for our public and private sector partners, many of whom- along with the Departments of Homeland Security, Defense and Transportation, rely on precise ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security remains vigilant against the COVID-19 virus and continues to lead an unprecedented national response to slow its growth and deny its transmission to vulnerable populations. To effectuate this, the Department is marshaling the full power of America, from ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: April 21, 2020 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS) and National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) are partnering with University of Missouri to host a joint Virtual Career Expo on April 28, 2020, building on an event last year that attracted more than 400 attendees. Both agencies relocated most of their operations to the Kansas City region last fall and are continuing to grow their workforces.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 21, 2020
News Release: USDA is expanding access to innovative online food purchase program (Washington, D.C., April 21, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced approval of requests from Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas to provide online purchasing of food to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...
