News from December 2020
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) today introduced a continuing resolution to extend federal government funding an additional day to allow year-end spending legislation to be adopted.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the clean energy provisions in the end-of-year tax package...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today celebrated the inclusion of a key policy to improve access to mental health care via telemedicine in end of year legislation set to become law. Wyden also highlighted a number of other policies in the package that he fought to include.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House today passed, on a bipartisan 329 to 65 vote, a continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through Monday to complete action on appropriations, authorizations, and coronavirus relief.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Dec. 3, 2020, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a three count indictment charging five men and three women, who are members of a drug trafficking organization, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today, Vladimir Natera-Abreu and Joset Rivera-Verdejo were arrested by the Dominican National Police and were later deported to Puerto Rico. The defendants were fugitives since February 2019, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the unemployment insurance benefits provisions in the COVID relief package...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - David Colon, age 39, and Adalberto Gonzalez, age 56, both of Albany, were ordered detained yesterday after being arrested on Tuesday and charged with possession with the intent to distribute heroin laced with fentanyl.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, partnered with Chairman Pat Roberts to successfully lead bipartisan negotiations to increase food assistance for families and provide help to farmers and food suppliers ...
By Federal Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) expressed their appreciation to President Biden for signing into law their bipartisan National Guard and Reservists Debt Relief Extension Act. The legislation, which reauthorizes relief for an additional four years for qualifying members of the National Guard and Reserves experiencing financial hardship, will protect a long-standing bipartisan carveout from means-testing restrictions in Chapter 7 bankruptcy cases."Declaring bankruptcy is a difficult choice for any American,...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in appreciation of 32 years of congressional service.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following the Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, the FAA has determined that pilots may receive the vaccine under the conditions of their FAA-issued airman medical certification. FAA Air Traffic Controllers, who are subject to FAA medical clearance, may also receive the vaccine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Cory Gardner (R-CO), Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) applauded Senate passage of their bipartisan bill to help protect the health and safety of firefighters and...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2020
News Release: Lewis and Clark National Historical Park offers opportunities to get outdoors and learn about the Corps of Discovery’s winter at Fort Clatsop. The park trails and the Fort Clatsop replica are open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The park will be closed on December 24 and 25. Until further notice, the visitor center is closed due to the extreme risk level of Clatsop County.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 19, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement regarding President-elect Biden's nomination of U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: On Dec. 18, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the United States and Honduras have concluded the implementation accords for the Asylum Cooperative Agreement (ACA) signed in September 2019. Under the ACA, certain migrants requesting asylum or similar humanitarian protection at the U.S. border may be transferred to Honduras to seek protection in Honduras.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: A complaint and arrest warrant were unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Xinjiang Jin, also known as “Julien Jin,” with conspiracy to commit interstate harassment and unlawful conspiracy to transfer a means of identification. Jin, an employee of a U.S.-based telecommunications company ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that four men from across the Pacific Northwest were indicted this week for federal hate crimes and making false statements in connection with a Dec. 8, 2018, racially-motivated assault.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: The chief executive officer (CEO) of a California-based medical device company was indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud investors by making false and misleading statements about the purported development of a new COVID-19 test, leading to millions of dollars ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2020
News Release: A four–count federal grand jury indictment returned in Austin and unsealed today charges three foreign nationals – a Russian citizen and two Bulgarian citizens – with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), Export Control Reform Act (ECRA), and a money laundering statute in a scheme to procure sensitive radiation-hardened circuits from the U.S. and ship those components to Russia through Bulgaria without required licenses.
