News from April 2020
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has chosen four projects to share $710,771 for the development of a drought contingency plan or to update an existing plan. These drought contingency plans help communities proactively plan for the next drought to reduce or mitigate potential impacts. The four selected projects all required a match for this grant program.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
Release: The government of Ethiopia has asked USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to authorize the importation of fresh chives for consumption into the continental United States. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment that describes potential pests associated with the commodity.APHIS shares ...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: Dear Commissioner Hahn: I write to seek assurances that the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) response to the COVID-19 outbreak is driven by unbiased scientific decision-making alone. A number of reports have raised serious concerns about whether political pressure has influenced FDA actions in recent...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Chairman Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi delivered the Weekly Democratic Address. In this week’s address, the Chairman of the Homeland Security Committee discussed the urgent need for widespread testing, data on impact in communities of color and equipment for health care workers and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that a Beaverton, Oregon man has been charged with bank fraud in a scheme involving the impersonation of credit union employees in order to obtain members’ personal financial information.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: Stole Mailed Items Worth More Than $50,000.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) questioned officials from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about ongoing efforts to expand COVID-19 testing capacity around the country. Walden, a member of President Trump’s bipartisan task force on reopening the economy, raised the issue with HHS officials during a teleconference this afternoon.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: Today, Ranking Member Jim Jordan, joined by other Committee Republicans, called out Washington Democrats for their cynical efforts to exploit the coronavirus pandemic “to advocate for their extreme changes in immigration policy," and lauded the Trump administration’s effort to enforce America’s laws and defend our borders while prudently working to mitigate the impact of the disease.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announces that today, RICHARD R. CEPHAS, of Wilmington, Delaware, was charged in a federal Criminal Complaint with escaping from the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in Butner, North Carolina on or about April 1, 2020. The Criminal...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to recent reports of personnel and potential policy changes in the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR):
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) questioned officials from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) about ongoing efforts to expand COVID-19 testing capacity around the country. Walden, a member of President Trump’s bipartisan task force on reopening the economy, raised the issue with HHS officials during a teleconference this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - The Virginia Coronavirus Fraud Task Force announced today that they are preparing for potential criminal activity, including theft and fraud, from the Economic Impact Payment checks or debit cards soon to be hand-delivered by the U.S. Postal Service.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo.- Reclamation has released a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for public review and comment for the Pueblo Reservoir Resource Management Plan (RMP).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Oversight and Reform Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar urging the Administration to immediately reverse its fetal tissue restrictions for any current or future federally supported COVID-19-related research.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: Coronavirus-damaged businesses deserve financial relief . By Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa. For the first time in our nation’s history, a pandemic has closed the economy, shutting down businesses, schools and our way of life. Congress acted swiftly to respond to the public health emergency and triage...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell sentenced Gregory Michael Johnson, 37, to 38 months in prison for failure to register as a sex offender, in violation of the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Bell also ordered Johnson to serve 10 years under court supervision after he is released from prison and to register as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Royal Gorge Field Office and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Pike-San Isabel National Forests and Comanche-Cimarron National Grasslands (PSICC) released the Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) for managing Browns Canyon National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a civil forfeiture complaint has been filed in United States District Court for the Western District of New York seeking to forfeit assets which the government alleges that Devin Tribunella, 36, of Rochester, NY, obtained through fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement after President Trump, while the country is facing a pandemic, spent the afternoon on Twitter egging on right-wing demonstrators who have protested against stay-at-home orders in states with Democratic governors.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2020
News Release: This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) briefed staff of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy about the agency’s response to the potential health risks e-cigarettes pose to users affected by coronavirus.
