News from June 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), and Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) today released the following statement after learning the Election Assistance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III, sentenced Robert Bascom, age 48, of Baltimore, Maryland to eight years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 100 grams of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: EUGENE, Ore.-A Colorado man pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for stabbing a Black man from Ontario, Oregon while the man was sitting in a fast-food restaurant.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Ronald Rechan, 58, of Douglasville GA, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to making a false statement on a bank loan application and to tax evasion. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $5.5 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to help the state of Texas prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: On Thursday, June 17, while flying over Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve conducting fire ecology surveys, the Regional and Assistant Regional Fire Ecologists for the Alaska National Park Service (NPS) discovered the first wildfire of the season in the preserve, Fire #223, the Cultas Creek Fire.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 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 $2.8 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to McNeese State University Foundation, Lake Charles, Louisiana, to construct a Center of Excellence...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography after his state conviction was vacated due to lack of jurisdiction, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In today’s Ways and Means Committee hearing with Secretary Yellen, top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) corrected the record on the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) and warned against the Biden Administration’s “American Jobs Plan" - which will destroy good-paying U.S. jobs and raise taxes on American families.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: You know that part of your fridge that always freezes your lettuce? Or the section in your freezer door that leaves your popsicles a little mushy?
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, today introduced legislation to strengthen U.S. semiconductor supply chains by incentivizing domestic manufacturing of this critical technology.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Thursday, June 24, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, on public health data and social determinants of health. The hearing is entitled, “Empowered by Data: Legislation to Advance Equity and Public Health."
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
Release: MILWAUKEE - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers recently stopped two men from carrying loaded handguns onto airplanes at Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) in unrelated events.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man today pleaded guilty to distributing opioids that resulted in the overdose death of another person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - David Elroy Bradshaw, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has admitted to a drug charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Richard (Rick) W. Spinrad, Ph.D., an internationally renowned scientist with four decades of ocean, atmosphere, and climate science and policy expertise, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate today as the under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and the 11th NOAA administrator.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision in California v. Texas to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA):
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - David Dorst, of Shade, Ohio, was sentenced today to 60 months of incarceration for a child pornography charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) gave the following statement after the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act by ruling that the states do not have standing to challenge the law’s individual mandate...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 17, 2021
News Release: For the past year and a half, we have focused our energies on responding to the devastation, economic uncertainty, and tragic loss of life brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. But today we are meeting with renewed optimism and an eye toward the future: not just our next year of recovery, but also the next decade ahead.
