News from April 2021
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- In alignment with the recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, FEMA is pausing administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at our pilot community vaccination centers and mobile vaccination units. We are working with our state partners to determine the path forward and find alternative vaccine options for these sites.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Insisting that Washington shouldn’t veto state tax cuts, Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) and House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY) offered a new bill, the “State Tax Freedom Act," during the pro forma session on Friday afternoon. The bill (HR 2189 ) pushes back against an unconstitutional provision inserted into the American Rescue Plan that restricts states’ ability to manage their own finances.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Walter Rodriguez, of Manchester, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for employment tax fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- In an Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing on substance use disorders becoming worse because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) urged the Majority to take action with Republicans to combat fentanyl-related substances...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A Marshall, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Glen Jean, WV -New River Gorge National Park and Preserve is hosting a series of Grandfamilies (grandparents raising their grandchildren) Fishing Days in May and June. Grandfamilies are invited to participate free of charge and enjoy time in the great outdoors fishing or learning to fish for the big...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - Some campsites at the Bureau of Land Management’s Holter Lake will switch to an online reservation system for the upcoming summer season.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
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 DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, "An Epidemic within a Pandemic: Understanding Substance Use and Misuse in America:"
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that NATHANIEL TSOSIE, 34, of Denver, Colorado was indicted by a federal grand jury on March 25, 2021, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The indictment alleges that on or about Feb. 12, 2021, in Johnson County, Wyoming, Tsosie who is a prior convicted felon, knowingly possessed firearms and brought them across state lines.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- In an Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing on substance use disorders becoming worse because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) urged the Majority to take action with Republicans to combat fentanyl-related substances...
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, released the following statement in response to Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra’s announcement of a new proposed rule for the Title X family planning...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
Release: Remarks as Delivered by Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A North Carolina man, who used the popular social media messaging app Snapchat to solicit minors to send him sexually explicit photographs and videos in exchange for expensive gifts, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Abingdon, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar, Stanley M. Meador, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Richmond Division, and Grayson County Sheriff Richard Vaughan announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), Chair of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing Critical Management Issues - U.S. Diplomatic and Development Agencies.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman, (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing to consider the nomination of Dr. Jewel H. Bronaugh to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, The U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a hearing entitled, “Long-term Solvency of the Highway Trust Fund: Lessons Learned from the Surface Transportation System Funding Alternatives Program and Other User-based Revenue Solutions, and How Funding Uncertainty Affects the Highway Programs." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), as prepared for delivery...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today issued the following statement applauding President Biden's nominations to the Environmental Protection Agency: Michal Freedhoff for Assistant Administrator for Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, Radhika Fox for Assistant Administrator for Water, and Faisal Amin for Chief Financial Officer...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2021
News Release: MARSHALL, Texas - A Marshall, Texas man has been sentenced to prison for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei.
