News from March 2021
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Committee and Subcommittee Chairs across the House of Representatives sent letters to the White House, federal agencies, law enforcement, and Legislative Branch entities, including the House and Senate Sergeant at Arms, seeking documents and communications relating to the January 6, 2021, domestic terrorist assault on the Capitol.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: FEMA is proposing updates to the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for Nottoway County, Virginia. Community partners are invited to participate in a 90-day appeal and comment period.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a joint Communications and Technology Subcommittee and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing titled, “Disinformation Nation: Social Media's Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation:"
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader for Communications and Technology Subcommittee Bob Latta (R-OH) delivered opening remarks at today’s joint subcommittee hearing on how Big Tech has failed to be responsible stewards of their platforms and has lost the trust of Americans.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: The 0.8-mile Whiteoak-Cedar Run Link Trail that connects the WhiteOak Canyon Trail to Cedar Run Trail is permanently closed as it was severely undercut by recent flooding in the nearby stream. As the stream eroded the stream bank, it caused downed trees and unstable ground. A significant section of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Forty-six defendants, including two doctors, a nurse practitioner, and five pharmacists, have been convicted of operating an $18 million pill mill scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) added India to the list of regions we consider to be affected with African Swine Fever (ASF.) We took this action on May 13, 2020 when the disease was confirmed and are now publishing notice in the ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: By the Western Regional Office. Food and Nutrition Service. Like countless schools across the country, the Live Oak Unified School District, about 50 miles north of Sacramento, had to shift their operations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Prior to the pandemic, we were realizing my dream serving...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, from the hearing entitled Child Nutrition Reauthorization: Healthy Meals and Healthy Futures...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader for Consumer Protection and Commerce Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing on how Big Tech has failed to be responsible stewards of their platforms and has lost the trust of Americans.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement after Parler exposed Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney’s blatantly partisan and baseless attacks against the company...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Illegally received $325,870 in benefits over 15 years.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) opened today’s Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing by welcoming Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) to the Select Subcommittee and calling out Speaker Pelosi and Democrats for seeking to overturn her election.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks today in a joint virtual hearing with the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce. The joint hearing was with Big Tech companies, Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: In Del Rio, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging two Austinites for their alleged roles in transporting illegal aliens from Del Rio to Austin resulting in the death of an illegal alien, announced U.S. Attorney Ashley C. Hoff and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man pleaded guilty today to distributing fentanyl throughout southeastern Massachusetts.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Two community vacation centers capable of administering up to 6,000 vaccine doses per day opened Wednesday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta and Detroit's Ford Field.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), Chair of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Leading by Action: The Fierce Urgency for Diversity and Inclusion in the Foreign Policy Workforce.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Sean Okrzesik, age 34, of Syracuse, was arrested on March 23 on charges of theft of government property and Social Security fraud related to his diversion of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits into bank accounts he set up in the names of beneficiaries or their representative...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, continued to advocate for more flexibility in school nutrition programs as the Committee begins the process to reauthorize federal child nutrition programs.
