News from April 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released a video emphasizing President Biden’s failure to fully reopen America’s public schools in his first 100 days and the detrimental impacts prolonged closures are having on children...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Salvadoran national - who was previously deported after being convicted of sexually abusing a minor - was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography on Facebook’s Messenger after he illegally reentered the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County man today admitted illegally possessing eight firearms, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.7 million grant to the city of Hancock, Michigan, to provide flood resilient infrastructure for a new a business and technology park that will house...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago attorney was indicted today on false statement and tax charges in connection with funds he received from Washington Federal Bank for Savings.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in today’s Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “Social Security During COVID: How the Pandemic Hampered Access to Benefits and Strategies for Improving Service Delivery.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Fernley resident pleaded guilty today to using encrypted applications and online aliases to distribute child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher Chiou for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse for the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Frederick J. Haresign, age 61, of Oswego, New York, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with sexual exploitation of a child, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, and Kevin Kelly, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Buffalo Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, a Utah man was arrested for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the Presidential election.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Republican Leader Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan asking for transparency...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Salvadoran national - who was previously convicted of sexually abusing a minor and removed from the United States- was sentenced today to 240 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography on Facebook’s Messenger after he unlawfully reentered the U.S.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today as prepared for delivery at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Fiscal Year 2022 EPA Budget:"
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today as prepared for delivery at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “The Fiscal Year 2022 EPA Budget:"
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $900,000 grant to Bladen’s Bloomin’ Agri-Industrial, Inc., (BBAI), Elizabethtown, North Carolina, to support the economic revitalization of the city’s downtown Bladenboro business district. This EDA grant, to be matched with $600,000 in local investment, is expected to create 44 jobs.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), today spoke on the Senate floor in support of S. 914, the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act (DWWIA), bipartisan legislation to invest in our nation's water infrastructure.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) announced today that $1,621,377 in federal funding has been made available to Milwaukee County for costs related to the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the federal disaster declaration on April 4, 2020.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, Subcommittee on the Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) advocated for the need to both unleash innovation in carbon capture technology and protect pipeline workers in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man convicted of trafficking methamphetamine and illegally possessing a firearm was sentenced today to six years in prison and to four years of supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2021
News Release: FARMINGTON, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management announces that it is seeking public nominations for four positions on its Northern New Mexico Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the BLM on public land issues within the Farmington District and Rio Puerco Field Office. As advertised in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations until June 1, 2021.
