News published on Federal Newswire in June 2021

News from June 2021


Reading Ranger Storytime: Wind!

News Release: CHEYENNE, Oklahoma: Bring the family and join a Park Ranger at Minnie Slief Memorial Library for free storytelling & a craft. For the month of June, kids will learn about wind with “Iva Dunnit and the Big Wind" by Carol Purdy, a tall tale about a homesteading mama and her six children as they use their strength and wits to survive a big windstorm.


Two Weeks Left to Apply for Disaster Assistance; More Registration Support Centers Open

News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Don’t delay. If you are a Kentucky homeowner, renter or business owner who had property damage or loss caused by the severe storms from Feb. 27 to March 14, you have two weeks left to apply for federal disaster assistance.


ADVISORY: E&C Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers Announces Forum on the Real Harm of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Agenda

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that Rep. David B. McKinley (R-WV), Republican Leader for the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee, will host a forum entitled “Mounting Costs: The Real Harm of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Agenda on the American People and the Economy" on Monday, June 14, 2021 at 4:30 PM ET.


Alleged Gang Member Charged by Miami Federal Grand Jury With Possession of a Cache of Sophisticated Firearms, Including Two “Switch” Enabled Fully Automatic Machine Guns

News Release: Miami, Florida -- A prior convicted felon from Miami with alleged ties to the national “Bloods" gang and the local “77 Street" gang has been indicted by a South Florida grand jury on federal firearms charges, including illegal possession of machine guns.


Registered sex offender sentenced to 29 years in prison for soliciting and producing child pornography from teenage boys on social media

News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Brendan J. Eardly, 50, of Troy, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 348 months in prison for producing child pornography by enticing juvenile males to send him sexually explicit videos and images via social media.


ADVISORY: E&C Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers Announces Forum on the Real Harm of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Agenda

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that Rep. David B. McKinley (R-WV), Republican Leader for the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee, will host a forum entitled “Mounting Costs: The Real Harm of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Agenda on the American People and the Economy" on Monday, June 14, 2021 at 4:30 PM ET.


ADVISORY: E&C Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers Announces Forum on the Real Harm of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Agenda

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy & Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that Rep. David B. McKinley (R-WV), Republican Leader for the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee, will host a forum entitled “Mounting Costs: The Real Harm of the Biden Administration’s Environmental Agenda on the American People and the Economy" on Monday, June 14, 2021 at 4:30 PM ET.


ICYMI: In West Virginia, Secretary Granholm Touts American Jobs Plan, State's Clean Energy Potential

Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Thursday and Friday, Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to West Virginia to tout the American Jobs Plan, the Biden Administration’s efforts to empower and uplift coal and power plant communities , and the Department of Energy (DOE)’s clean energy investments in West Virginia.


Rodgers, Graves, and Barr Lead Over 60 House Republicans in Letter to President Biden on Nord Stream 2 Waiver

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Select Climate Committee Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA), and Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY) sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concern over the Biden Administration waiving sanctions to allow Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to move forward.


Opening Remarks by Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken Before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs

Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member McCaul, all committee members, thank you very, very much for this opportunity to talk about our proposed budget and how it will help achieve our national security priorities and deliver results for the American people, which is what I know all of us are about.


McLean County Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Distribution of Heroin Resulting in Death

News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Bloomington, Ill., man, Jacob R. Schultz, 36, of the 500 block of W. Seminary St., was sentenced on June 3, 2021, to serve 20 years in prison for distribution of heroin that resulted in the death of an individual in November 2018. In addition to the prison sentence, Senior U.S. District Judge Michael M. Mihm ordered that Schultz remain on supervised release for five years following his release from prison.


Kanawha County man sentenced for firearms charge

News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Qundre Isaiah Payton, of Institute, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 21 days of incarceration for a firearms charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.


Rodgers, Graves, and Barr Lead Over 60 House Republicans in Letter to President Biden on Nord Stream 2 Waiver

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Select Climate Committee Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA), and Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY) sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concern over the Biden Administration waiving sanctions to allow Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to move forward.


Secretary Granholm Launches Hydrogen Energy Earthshot to Accelerate Breakthroughs Toward a Net-Zero Economy

Release: First Energy Earthshot Aims to Slash the Cost of Clean Hydrogen by 80% to $1 per Kilogram in One Decade


Cloud: Fisher-Price, Mattel Must Answer for Infant Deaths

News Release: WASHINGTON-Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy Ranking Member Michael Cloud (R-Texas) opened today’s hearing on the dangers of the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play-an infant recliner that was recalled in April 2019-and the failures of infant product safety by emphasizing the need for Fischer-Price and Mattel to answer for the deaths of infants due to their product, and any potential negligence on their part in producing a product that resulted in deaths.


BLM to host wild horse and burro event in Windom, Minnesota

News Release: MILWAUKEE - The Bureau of Land Management is holding a wild horse and burro placement event July 9-10, offering approximately 60 excess animals gathered from western rangelands at the Windom Arena, 1480 8th Avenue, Windom, Minnesota.


HSI El Paso investigation results in guilty pleas in mail fraud, aggravated identity theft scheme case

News Release: EL PASO, Texas - Two Dominican Republic citizens pleaded guilty June 7 to using stolen personal identification information to obtain high-end electronic devices, such as cell phones, laptop computers, tablets and watches.


Two Dominican Republic Citizens Plead Guilty to Mail Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft Scheme

News Release: EL PASO - Wilver Jose Polanco-Alvarez, a 26-year-old Dominican Republic citizen residing in Miami, and Jose Eduardo Gomez Salas, a 25-year-old Dominican Republic citizen residing in New York, admitted in federal court today to using stolen personal identification information to obtain high-end electronic devices such as cell phones, laptop computers, tablets and watches.


California Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Distribution of Methamphetamine

News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Coachella, California man was sentenced to federal prison today for transporting five pounds of methamphetamine from Coachella to Aumsville, Oregon.


Rodgers, Graves, and Barr Lead Over 60 House Republicans in Letter to President Biden on Nord Stream 2 Waiver

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Select Climate Committee Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA), and Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY) sent a letter to President Joe Biden expressing concern over the Biden Administration waiving sanctions to allow Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to move forward.