News from February 2021

By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after the Committee passed COVID-19 relief budget reconciliation legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A U.S. Citizen arrived in the United States today after being ordered detained and removed from Bahrain to the United States for the alleged murder of his mother, a Department of Defense civilian employee working in Bahrain.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Daniel Mitchem, 47, of Albuquerque, was sentenced in federal court in Albuquerque on Feb. 11 to four years and seven months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks at the beginning of today’s markup.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Admits Did Not Pay IRS More than $2 Million in Employment and Corporate Taxes.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
Release: The Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969-1976, Volume E-15, Part 2, Documents on Western Europe, 1973-1976, Second, Revised Edition.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
Release: Effective Feb. 16, I am revoking the designations of Ansarallah, sometimes referred to as the Houthis, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) under the Immigration and Nationality Act and as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13224, as amended.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: More than 1,650 shipments over about a one-year period.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of sex trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: IOD MOCA/TUZI-VRP. Administrative Order #[21-001] [02/2021]. Closures, restrictions, and public use limits: Restrictions and Public Use Limits: Under the authority provided to the Superintendent in 36CFR I.5(a)(2) the following activities are restricted in Montezuma Castle National Monument (including...

By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul is disputing the claim made in The Economist Leaders section that the CCP’s atrocities against Uyghurs and other minorities do not amount to a genocide. Below is a statement from Lead Republican McCaul as well as background information detailing exactly why these crimes amount to a genocide under the United Nation’s Genocide Convention.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Starting this Monday, Feb. 15, the Denali Park Road will be open as far as the Mountain Vista Rest Area (mile 12) for travel by private vehicles and commercial vehicles with permits. This opening occurs routinely each season, as weather allows. Visitors should expect to encounter snow and ice on shaded sections of the park road.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Following a letter from House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas), the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Inspector General confirmed to the lawmakers that $46 billion of CARES Act funding provided to state and local governments remains unspent. State and local governments have until Dec. 31, 2021 to spend these funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Charles Wager, age 53, of Castleton-on-Hudson, New York, was arrested on February 5, 2021 and charged with attempting to entice or coerce a child, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: GUILTY PLEA - EFREN BAUTISTA VARGAS.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that it will deliver the Public Law 94-171 redistricting data to all states by Sept. 30, 2021. COVID-19-related delays and prioritizing the delivery of the apportionment results delayed the Census Bureau’s original plan to deliver the redistricting data to the states by March 31, 2021.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: CASPER, Wyo. - The BLM is encouraging the public to attend a virtual meeting to begin development of the adaptive management plan for non-eagle raptor timing limitation stipulation (TLS) relief within the Converse County Oil and Gas Project area. The virtual meeting will be held with the BLM, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department from 6-8 p.m. on March 25, 2021. The meeting will be conducted virtually through Zoom.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 32 months in jail, ordered to pay over $1.6 million in restitution and a $1,000 fine on his conviction of bank and wire fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. Senior District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Mario Mitchell Pereira (43), Olario Mitchell Palacio (49), and Mike Mitchell Palacio (52), for conspiring to distribute cocaine on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. In October 2020, Mario Mitchell Pereira...

By EPA Newswire | Feb 12, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks at the beginning of today’s markup.