News from March 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today commended U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the United States Postal Service (USPS) Board of Governors on the creation and delivery of a business reform plan...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) marked the 11th anniversary of President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act into law with this statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Jermal Daniels, 50, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 33 months in prison. Daniels previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered opening remarks during Tuesday’s Health Subcommittee hearing on the Affordable Care Act and the Left’s march toward socialized medicine. Her remarks focused on achievable solutions Republicans and Democrats should be working on to lower health care costs, not give the government more control in health care.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Republican Leader on the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), along with U.S. Sens. Roger Wicker (R-MS), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee; Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), Chair of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works' (EPW) Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Mexican national pleaded guilty today to two counts of production of child pornography.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
Release: The United States strongly condemns reported Assad regime artillery attacks and Russian airstrikes that killed civilians in western Aleppo and Idlib, yesterday. Reported artillery shelling on the Al-Atareb Surgical Hospital in western Aleppo killed several patients, including a child, and injured more than a dozen medical staff. This hospital’s coordinates had been shared with the UN-led deconfliction mechanism.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling announced today that on March 18, 2021, Susan Moyer (58), of Milwaukee, the former co-owner and office manager of the “Compassionate Care Clinic" in Milwaukee, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for her role in distribution of Oxycodone.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau launched a new online map today ahead of the 2020 Census apportionment results release. The “Historical Apportionment Data Map" currently displays apportionment results for each census from 1910 to 2010. 2020 Census apportionment results will be added to the map as they become available.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 22, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today a 15 percent increase in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits through September 2021, providing an estimated $3.5 billion to households experiencing food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today announced that former acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson has been appointed as the Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA). Wilkinson previously served as the Director of EOUSA from 2014 until December 2017, and prior to that as its Principal Deputy Director and Chief of Staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: Note: A copy of the indctment can be viewed here.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: A Florida medical doctor was sentenced to 63 months in prison after pleading guilty to her role in a scheme to falsify clinical trial data regarding an asthma medication. Dr. Yvelice Villaman Bencosme, 64, of Miami, previously pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: The United States has filed four civil injunction suits in federal court in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. The suits seek to enjoin a Detroit-area tax preparation franchisor from owning, operating and franchising tax preparation businesses and to prohibit the franchisor, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: The United States filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi seeking to bar a Mississippi tax return preparer from owning or operating a tax return preparation business and preparing tax returns for others.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department today announced it has reached a settlement agreement with the Colorado Office of Administrative Courts (OAC) to help people with limited English proficiency (LEP) access timely and competent language assistance in the court system.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve System on Monday released the 2020 combined annual audited financial statements for the Federal Reserve Banks, as well as statements for the 12 individual Federal Reserve Banks, the Board of Governors, and five limited liability companies (LLC's) that manage and operate some of the ...
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2021
News Release: “We continue to support the goal of a Europe whole and free and at peace. The United States is fully committed to our NATO Alliance, and I welcome Europe’s growing investment in the military capabilities that enable our shared defense.” – President Joseph R. Biden, Feb. 19, 2021 On March 22-25, Secretary ...
