News from July 2021
By USDA Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $12 million in Farm to School Grants this year, announcing awards to 176 grantees, the most projects funded since the program began in 2013. The department is also releasing new data demonstrating the recent growth of farm to school...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JASON DONES-GONZALEZ, an enforcer for La Organización de Narcotraficantes Unidos (“La ONU"), was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman to 35 years in prison. DONES-GONZALEZ previously pled guilty to participating in a racketeering conspiracy, participating in a conspiracy to commit murder, and unlawfully possessing a machine gun.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Passionate about sustainable buildings? Ready to test the skills you’ve learned in the classroom on a real-life project? The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon® is ready for your innovative ideas and creativity! Solar Decathlon is a collegiate competition that prepares the next generation of building professionals to design and build high-performance, low-carbon buildings powered by renewables.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Mexican National today admitted possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for distributing fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (TX-10) will join Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) in Manhattan, NY for a press conference to discuss Cuba’s widespread protests against the communist dictatorship and the regime’s violent crackdown against innocent Cubans. The two will provide recommendations for how the Biden Administration should help Cuban’s in their brave search for freedom.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the filing of a civil complaint seeking forfeiture of a 10th Century Khmer sandstone statue - Skanda on a Peacock - for the purpose of returning it to the Kingdom of Cambodia. The statue was stolen from...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: The House Appropriations Committee today approved the fiscal year 2022 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies funding bill on a 33-26 vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Previously Convicted of Possessing Thousands of Child Pornography Files, Jeffrey White Admitted Possessing 7,000 Files of Child Pornography, As Well As a Child-Sized Sex Doll.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following remarks at the beginning of today’s subcommittee markup on 19 bills.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health for 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) issued the following statement in response to receiving a letter from the retired special agent who was in charge of investigating the spiking of trees that were part of the Post Office Timber Sale in the Clearwater National Forest in 1989.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Today, the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee held a markup and passed 19 bills with bipartisan support.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.2 million grant to Elk Valley Rancheria, Crescent City, California, to support a new, Tribally-owned enterprise and foster economic growth and job creation. To be matched with more than $1.5 million in other Federal and local funds, this EDA project is expected to create eight jobs.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday questioned United States Agency for International Development Administrator Samantha Power on the irony of China profiting from selling it’s sub-par vaccines to COVAX after refusing to donate money or vaccines to the global vaccine initiative. A transcription of their full interaction can be found below:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: Aaron James Seney, 33, of Sapulpa, was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution and receipt of child pornography and to possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On July 15, 2021, The Andes-Straley Veterinary Hospital in Kingsport, Tennessee, and its owner, Gary C. Andes, D.V.M., agreed to pay the United States $70,000 in civil penalties to resolve allegations that Dr. Andes and the hospital violated the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA"). The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside County man who drove to a federal facility in downtown Los Angeles and attempted to enter with three firearms was charged late this afternoon with a federal firearms offense.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Demolition Association recently signed a two-year alliance agreement to protect the safety and health of workers in demolition and related industries.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), ranking member of the subcommittee covering the Western Hemisphere, ...
