News from March 2021
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader for Energy Fred Upton delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing on preserving jobs and avoiding Green New Deal-style energy and environment policies.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, said the mandatory spending cuts that will result from the Democrats’ massive $1.9T reconciliation package should give pause to the idea of using the same process to further increase deficit spending to address climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered opening remarks at Wednesday’s Energy Subcommittee hearing about the need for a diverse and reliable energy base.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) wrote to nine internet service providers...
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for the Oversight and Investigations Morgan Griffith delivered remarks in a subcommittee hearing on the need for proper planning, preparation, and weatherization of energy grids across the country, not just in Texas.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: At the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), February 22 - March 23, the United States actively reengaged with the Council after a two-and-a-half-year absence and announced its candidacy for a member seat for the 2022-2024 term. With introspection about the United States’ own human rights...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: GETTYSBURG, Pa. - Gettysburg National Military Park is preparing to conduct a prescribed fire in early to mid-April, weather permitting. The park plans to burn portions of the west slope of Little Round Top (52 acres) and the Munshower field (36 acres) immediately north of Little Round Top. Prescribed fire activity will be completed no later than April 30.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A local area man was sentenced March 24, to 90 months in prison for distributing child pornography as the result of a probe by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tucson office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. -Rahne Cooper, age 31, and Darius Hinton, age 31, pled guilty to bank fraud before Magistrate Judge Robert T. Numbers, III, in federal District Court today.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting. At the meeting, the committee considered the following items...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today voted against Janet McCabe, the nominee for Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Brenda Mallory, the nominee for Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), during today's committee meeting.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott issued the following statement in response to the US Department of Agriculture’s announcement of the Pandemic Assistance for Producers initiative...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) wrote to nine internet service providers (ISPs) ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott will be chairing a hearing titled, A Hearing to Review the State of Black Farmers in the U.S., with participation from the full Agriculture Committee membership, which includes 8 members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Springfield man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: The following statement was released by United States Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/Vice President of the European Commission Josep Borrell following today’s meeting.
