News from July 2020
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Tuesday, July 21, with officials from five drug manufacturers developing COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Officials from AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna and Pfizer will testify at the hearing.
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Bronx, NY-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today introduced bipartisan legislation designed to combat foreign election interference. The Rewards for Providing Information on Foreign Election Interference Act would expand an existing State Department initiative to reward people who alert American authorities about interference in American elections from overseas.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Due to the State of New Mexico health order, and the increase of Covid-19 cases in the area, Capulin Volcano National Monument is putting programs on hold through at least August 16th. “We really wanted to find a way to have some programing but keep the public safe." Said acting Site Manager Geoff Goins. “However, we feel it is in the best interest of public safety, and in compliance with the State health order to cancel planned programs into August.".
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: (MILES CITY, Mont.) - The Bureau of Land Management Miles City Field Office has completed an environmental assessment and proposed plan amendment to the 2015 Resource Management Plan, as amended, to consider conveyance of the reversionary interest -through a direct sale at fair market value- on 11.83 acres on a Recreation and Public Purposes Act Patent to Miles Community College under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A rheumatology professor and researcher with strong ties to China has been ordered held without bond to face a charge of grant fraud for not disclosing that he was engaged in a sophisticated scheme to use approximately $4.1 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: HOUSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Houston, Texas, removed an illegal alien and known 18th Street gang member Wednesday wanted for terroristic acts and leading terrorist organizations in El Salvador.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Matthew D. Krueger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that a man received a sentence related to his involvement in an October 2019 aggravated assault on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Frank J. Sackatook III (age: 38), formerly of Neopit, will serve 90 months in prison...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1.2 million visitors to Ozark National Scenic Riverways in 2019 spent $54 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 819 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $58,601,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Researcher Charged with Illegally Using U.S. Grant Funds to Develop Scientific Expertise for China.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, and Republican Committee Member Rep. Mark Green released newly declassified Department of Defense (DOD) documents, which detail multiple hazards and toxins that U.S. servicemembers were exposed to while deployed to Camp Stronghold Freedom at Karshi-Khanabad (K2) Air Base in Uzbekistan between 2001 and 2005.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Consumers Beware: Increased Risks During the COVID-19 Pandemic:"
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
Release: WASHINGTON - Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2021 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $6.7 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs) that will provide critical gap financing to small businesses and entrepreneurs in Kentucky that have been adversely affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma reminded taxpayers of the July 15 filing and payment deadline and warned against an increase in tax and COVID-19 scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Four Former Corrections Officers Sentenced For Violating Inmates Civil Rights.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a fully remote hearing on Tuesday, July 21, with officials from five drug manufacturers developing COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Officials from AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna and Pfizer will testify at the hearing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $400,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the First Tennessee Development District, Johnson City, Tennessee, to update economic development plans and fortify programs to assist communities in responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2020
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Gay Vietzke has named Rosalyn “Rose" Fennell as the new superintendent of Valley Forge National Historical Park, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, and the Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail in Pennsylvania. Fennell will begin her new assignment on Sept. 27, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today Kareem Pryor, 30, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, and faces a maximum penalty of up to 40 years in prison.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 8, 2020
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the initial purchase of vaccine for the National Animal Vaccine and Veterinary Countermeasures Bank (NAVVCB). APHIS will invest $27.1 million in foot-and-mouth disease vaccine, which ...
