News from February 2021
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, announced that Rachel Levitan will serve as his Communications Director. Levitan joins EPW after years working in the House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for selling narcotics and illegally brokering the sale of firearms - including several “ghost guns."
By DOL Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) released the following statement after announcing the subcommittee assignments for the 117th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 12 months and one day on her conviction for conspiring to distribute suboxone, which is a Schedule III controlled substance, to federal prisoners in Aliceville, Alabama, while she was under federal supervision for a prior drug offense, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee has invited officials from five manufacturers producing and developing COVID-19 vaccines to testify at a fully...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee has invited officials from five manufacturers producing and developing COVID-19 vaccines to testify at a fully...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: During an Interview with FBI Agents He Concealed that Fact that He and Two Other Officers Had Split the Proceeds from the Sale of Three Kilograms of Cocaine Seized by BPD.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks and Lead Republican Michael McCaul released the following statement on the passing of Congressman Ron Wright.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee has invited officials from five manufacturers producing and developing COVID-19 vaccines to testify at a fully...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that former Dodge County Deputy Sheriff Craig Harbaugh entered a plea of guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Bataillon to wire fraud. The scheme to defraud deprived six individual victims and one federally insured bank of a combined loss of $10,979,214. It is alleged that the individuals suffered more than $6 million in losses and the bank suffered the remainder.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) released the following statement on the retirement of Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been arrested for allegedly robbing a Chicago bank and holding a customer at gunpoint.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Arcata Field Office will hold a public meeting and is accepting public comments regarding management needs and projects that would benefit off-highway vehicle recreation on public lands on the North Coast.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
Release: QUESTION: Joining us now here in The Situation Room, the new Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. Mr. Secretary, congratulations. Thanks so much for joining us. I know you’ve got a lot on your plate; we’re grateful to you for taking a few moments to discuss these issues with us. I know you’ve already ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: John Muir National Historic Site is seeking applicants for the 2021 Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) summer program to work and learn alongside National Park Service (NPS) rangers. YCC is a paid outdoor work program that provides a safe, educational, and meaningful experience for young adults of all backgrounds and interests.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today called out Subcommittee Democrats for ignoring the Biden Administration’s potential political interference in the coronavirus response and demanded the Democrats expand their investigation to include the current administration.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
Release: The United States is deeply concerned about the escalating crackdown by the Government of President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. The regime’s actions under the so-called “Foreign Agents Law" forced the closure last week of two bastions of free expression: the Nicaragua chapter of PEN International and...
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
Release: The United States is deeply concerned about the escalating crackdown by the Government of President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. The regime’s actions under the so-called “Foreign Agents Law" forced the closure last week of two bastions of free expression: the Nicaragua chapter of PEN International and...
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement on the passing of Congressman Ron Wright.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2021
News Release: NORMAN, Okla. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold a wild horse and burro adoption event in Beeville, Texas, March 5-6, at the Bee County Expo Center. The two-day event, featuring 110 wild horses and burros, will begin at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 5. Adoptions will be held from noon-6 p.m. on Friday, March 5, and from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, March 6. Animals are eligible for adoption. Inquire with BLM staff onsite for more information.
