News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jesus Manuel Valle, also known as “LoLo," 24, of East Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) penned a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra urging him to provide details on the department’s spending ...

By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) during today’s Members’ Day Hearing on the infrastructure priorities of non-committee Members. Video of DeFazio’s opening statement is here. More information on the hearing, including a livestream and a list of Member testimony, can be found here.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today announced the beginning of data collection for phase 3.1 of the experimental Household Pulse Survey. Phase 3.1 includes substantial revisions to the questionnaire. Additional questions address the following new topics: disability, child health access, telehealth and child...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: New York Post: With Economy on the Mend, America Doesn’t Need Biden’s Irresponsible $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan.

By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
Release: Congressman Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Chairman of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on The National Science Foundation's Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request.
By State Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
Release: MODERATOR: Good evening. Welcome to NATO Headquarters, to this press conference with the Secretary General, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense. They will make short introductory statements, and then we’ll be able to take a few questions. Secretary General.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Brady: Biden Tax Hikes Send U.S. Jobs Overseas, Negating Infrastructure Gains.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: President Biden’s Job-Killing Tax Plan Threatens Your Job and America’s Economic Strength.

By State Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
Release: On April 12, 2021, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) released its second report attributing yet another chemical weapons attack in Syria to the Assad regime. The IIT report concluded there are reasonable grounds to believe that...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Wolf Point man accused of murdering another man in Wolf Point, on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation last year, appeared on murder and firearms crimes on April 13, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said today.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Congressman Bobby Scott, Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, and Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) released the following statement in response to new guidance issued by the Department of Labor for retirement plan sponsors, fiduciaries, record-keepers, and participants regarding cybersecurity.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on April 13, 2021, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Christian B.M. Crawford (age: 28) of Winnebago County, Wisconsin, charging him with arson of a building in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 844(i).

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Melissa Dawn Bailey, of Cabins, West Virginia, has admitted today to a drug charge, Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: ICYMI: President Biden’s ‘Centrism’ Is a Tax-Hike Extravaganza.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev - The Black Rock Field Office (BRFO) is soliciting public comment on the Calico Complex Gather Preliminary Environmental Assessment (PEA). The 30-day comment period will begin on April 14 and will end on May 13, 2021.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Biden Proposes $2 Trillion Tax Hikes for Workers, U.S. Employers.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: CARSON CITY, NEV. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold a meeting of the Sierra Front-Northern Great Basin Resource Advisory Council (RAC) on July 15 and 16. The meeting will be held at the BLM’s Winnemucca District Office at 5100 East Winnemucca Blvd., in Winnemucca, Nevada. Due to health concerns...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today convened a hearing with former officials and experts in public health and emergency management to examine the federal government’s preparation for and response to the Coronavirus...