News from July 2021
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) during today’s hearing titled, “Assessing the Federal Government’s COVID-19 Relief and Response Efforts and its Impact." Video of DeFazio’s opening statement is here. More information on the hearing can be found here.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced a $42.3 million funding opportunity and new pilot projects for the American manufacturing sector that will reduce carbon emissions across the economy and improve America’s economic competitiveness. The industrial sector contributed 23% of all greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, and decarbonizing U.S. industries is a key step toward meeting President Biden’s goal of a carbon-neutral economy by 2050.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 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 $7.6 million grant to Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, to fund infrastructure improvements designed to increase the operating efficiency of the Port of MacKenzie. The EDA grant, to be matched with $1.9 million in local investment, is expected to create 16 jobs, retain 551 jobs, and spur $800,000 in private investment.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the bipartisan Deepfake Task Force Act to assist the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in its mission to counter...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: A gang member who started a riot at the Lubbock County Jail last month was sentenced today to more than 21 years in federal prison for a drug crime, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: Census Bureau plans to release experimental estimates developed from 2020 ACS 1-year data.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) led a special order on the House floor, where members showcased the devastating consequences this administration's inaction on western water is having during asevere drought season.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee; Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Ranking Member of the EPW Subcommittee on ...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered opening remarks at Thursday’s Subcommittee hearing on treatments and cures for neurodegenerative diseases.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Republican Leader of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) sent a letter to Department of Education Secretary Cardona demanding transparency surrounding his plan to transition student loan borrowers back to repayment by Oct. 1, 2021.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in a Health Subcommittee hearing entitled, “The Path Forward: Advancing Treatments and Cures for Neurodegenerative Diseases."
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A federal grand jury in Nashville returned a 60-count, second superseding indictment, charging nine MS-13 gang members with a racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: Indictment Alleges Under Reported Employee Wages of Approximately $10.5 Million and Tax Loss of More than $542,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Antwan Hugley, a/k/a Twan; a/k/a Anthony Carter; a/k/a Juan Luis Rodriguez-Martinez; 42, of Atlanta, GA, who pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute, and distributing, five kilograms or more of cocaine, and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking activities, was sentenced to serve 130 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: An Aroostook County man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Sanford Fayton Venable, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to his involvement in a drug conspiracy that spanned several states, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “The Path Forward: Advancing Treatments and Cures for Neurodegenerative Diseases:"
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “The Path Forward: Advancing Treatments and Cures for Neurodegenerative Diseases:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: An Aroostook County man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered opening remarks at Thursday’s Subcommittee hearing on treatments and cures for neurodegenerative diseases.
