News published on Federal Newswire in May 2021

News from May 2021


Crapo on Budget-Busting Spending and Job-Killing Tax Hikes

News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the following statement today regarding President Biden’s budget announcement...


Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I offer my congratulations to the people of Samoa on the occasion of the fifty-ninth anniversary of your independence on June 1, 2021.


Albuquerque man pleads guilty to violating migratory bird treaty act

News Release: Amado Martin Vargas Hernandez was sentenced to one year of probation.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, issued the following statement on the passage of S.409. The bill includes an amendment authored by Stabenow, Committee Ranking Member John Boozman (R-Ark.), and ...


FEMA Issues Public Notice

News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - A public notice is now available that addresses the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) intention to reimburse eligible applicants for costs to repair or replace facilities damaged by the severe storms, flooding, landslides and mudslides in Kentucky, under disaster declaration DR-4595-KY.


Release: Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL), Chair of the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the subcommittee's Small Business Administration Oversight Hearing.


News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A St. Clair County man is under federal indictment on multiple charges involving producing and distributing sexually explicit images of minors. Zachary Dennert, 19, of Belleville, Illinois, is accused of coercing two minors, including one under the age of 12 years old, to produce visual depictions of sexually explicit conduct. The offenses occurred between January and August 2020.


Statement by Energy Secretary Granholm on the President's U.S. Department of Energy Fiscal Year 2022 Budget

Release: President’s DOE Budget Reinforces Commitment to Position American Workers, Scientists, Industries and Communities at the Center of a Clean Energy


Retired FBI Agent Charged With Fraud in $800,000 ‘Secret Probation’ Scheme

News Release: A retired FBI agent who allegedly convinced a Granbury woman she was on “secret probation" and conned her out of roughly $800,000 has been federally charged, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.


Census Bureau Releases Additional 2020 Census Operational Quality Metrics

News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released additional operational quality metrics on the 2020 Census. These metrics provide further insight into how housing units were enumerated and include information on occupied and vacant housing units and the size of occupied units.


Joint Statement of the United States and France Energy Ministers on Energy Technology and Policy Resolve

Release: The following is the text of a joint statement by the Energy Ministries of the Governments of France and the United States of America.


News Release: CHICAGO - A joint HSI and local law enforcement drug trafficking investigation has resulted in federal charges against 17 individuals for distributing or attempting to distribute heroin and cocaine, Thursday.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement about the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) updated guidance for children and summer camps...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), released the following statement after voting to advance the January 6 commission legislation...


U.S. Relations With Brunei

Release: More information about Brunei is available on the Brunei page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.


President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Makes Significant Investments  in the Bureau of Land Management

News Release: The Biden-Harris administration today submitted to Congress the President’s budget for Fiscal Year 2022. The budget includes a $1.6 billion investment for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to promote a multiple use and sustained yield mandate, including enhancing recreational opportunities for all Americans, creating a conservation stewardship legacy while generating revenue, and utilizing our natural resources.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement about the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) updated guidance for children and summer camps...


Statement by US Labor Secretary Walsh on the President’s FY 2022 Budget

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Biden-Harris administration today submitted to Congress the President’s Budget for Fiscal Year 2022. As the administration continues to make progress defeating the pandemic and getting our economy back on track, the budget makes historic investments that will help the country build back better and lay the foundation for shared growth and prosperity for decades to come.


Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, everyone. I am delighted to have the vice president and foreign minister here with us today. The partnership between the United States and Colombia is absolutely vital. We work together on so many different issues and in so many different ways, and it’s a particular pleasure...


Solo hiker injured by bear on Beaver Ponds Trail

News Release: * On the morning of Friday, May 28, 2021, a male, age 39, sustained injuries from a bear while hiking on the Beaver Ponds Trail at Mammoth Hot Springs.