News published on Federal Newswire in February 2021

News from February 2021


Pallone Praises Biden's Community Health Centers Vaccination Program

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on President Biden’s Community Health Centers Vaccination Program...


Leader Rodgers Remarks at Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Hearing

News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris (R-WA) delivered remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Back in Action: Restoring Federal Climate Leadership."


CISA and CYBER.ORG Partner to Deliver Cyber Safety Video Series

News Release: Washington -- The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and CYBER.ORG jointly announce a cyber safety video series to help those learning or working online take proactive steps to protect themselves and their business. CYBER.ORG is a cybersecurity workforce development organization that targets K-12 students with cyber career awareness, curricular resources, and teacher professional development.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) announced today that the Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a full Committee markup on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 11 a.m. via Cisco Webex video conferencing on legislative recommendations for its budget reconciliation instructions, which were passed last week by the House and Senate.


News Release: TULSA, Okla. - U.S. Attorney Trent Shores today announced that he will resign as chief law enforcement officer for the Northern District of Oklahoma at the end of February.


News Release: Engineer Pleads Guilty to More Than $10 Million of COVID-Relief Fraud.


Record of Determination on Mask-Wearing Requirements

News Release: Background. On Jan. 20, 2021, the President signed Executive Order 13991, Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing (E.O. 13991). E.O. 13991 directs federal agencies to: immediately take action, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to require compliance with [Centers...


Killeen Man Indicted for Discharging a Firearm on Fort Hood

News Release: In Waco today, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against 28-year-old former U.S. Army soldier Ricardo Manuele Davila-DeJesus for discharging a firearm while on Fort Hood over the weekend, stated U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.


CISA Announces 2021 Virtual Hiring Events

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation’s first federal cybersecurity agency, is kicking off a series of virtual hiring events in 2021 for job seekers, while aiming to further increase the representation among women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in order to more fully realize the goal of using the talents of all segments of society.


Leader Rodgers Remarks at Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Hearing

News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris (R-WA) delivered remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Back in Action: Restoring Federal Climate Leadership."


News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Indian drug manufacturer Fresenius Kabi Oncology Limited (FKOL) has agreed to plead guilty to concealing and destroying records prior to a 2013 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plant inspection and pay $50 million in fines and forfeiture, the Department of Justice announced today.


Crapo Announces Finance Committee Staff

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) has announced the Republican staff members of the Committee for the 117th Congress.


Pottsville Man Charged With Cyberstalking And Making Interstate Threats

News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Aaron VanDaley, age 43, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on Feb. 3, 2021, for cyberstalking and making interstate threats.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) today issued the below statement after her colleagues voted in favor of her to serve as the Senate Committee of Environment and Public Works (EPW) Ranking Member for the 117th Congress. Ranking Member Capito was also ratified by the Senate Republican Conference today.


U.S. Marshals Arrest Fugitive in Laclede County

News Release: Springfield, MO - Lonnie G. Richardson, age 50, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service-Midwest Violent Fugitive Task Force in Laclede County, Missouri on Monday, February 8th.


Kings Mountain NMP to Conduct Series of Prescribed Burns through May 2021

News Release: Blacksburg, SC - Kings Mountain National Military Park will be conducting a series of prescribed burns within the park boundaries through the end of May 2021.Locations to be burned are as follows.


News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - An aerial seeding project on Hanford ’s Gable Mountain will help restore lost habitat following a wildland fire in June last year, which burned more than 5,500 acres on the mountain.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, every Republican member of the House Committee on Natural Resources joined a letter to Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) requesting he organize the committee immediately and hold a markup on the committee’s reconciliation instruction to increase the deficit by more than $1 billion. In part, the members wrote.


Gibbs Statement from Hearing on the U.S. Maritime Industry & Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic

News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Ranking Member Bob Gibbs (R-OH) from today’s hearing entitled, “State of U.S. Maritime Industry: Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic":


News Release: Washington, DC - Republican  Subcommittee Leader for the Environment and Climate Change David McKinley (R-WV) delivered remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Back in Action: Restoring Federal Climate Leadership."