News from May 2021
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a markup on the Access to Congressionally Mandated Reports Act (H.R. 2485), which was introduced by Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Congressman Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) to create one central online location to store, search, and access thousands of legally mandated reports provided to Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Virtual candelight vigil scheduled for 8pm tonight.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Defendant surreptitiously recorded high school students while they used urinals and bathroom stalls.
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - In case you missed it, Chair of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and President and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare Max Richtman penned an opinion piece for The Hill to underscore how transformational investments in America’s aging infrastructure would benefit America’s aging population by creating jobs, which in turn helps shore up Social Security, while addressing inequities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A family medicine physician in Bluefield, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to one month in prison on a charge of misbranding Schedule II controlled substances to three individuals, two of whom his office staff called “back door patients."
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS - A Lodge Grass man accused of shooting and wounding a pedestrian from his vehicle in Crow Agency admitted to an assault crime today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By USDA Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: It's Time to Prepare for Hurricane Season
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA announced federal disaster assistance has been made available to the state of Hawaii to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by severe storms, flooding and landslides from March 8-18, 2021.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Kula, Maui -Planning to visit Haleakalā National Park? Below are some insider tips from park rangers on how to have a memorable and safe experience.
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2021
Release: Congressman David Price (D-NC), Chair of the Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's Member Day hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that on May 4, 2021, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned a four-count indictment charging JOSE MIGUEL VEGA-RIVERA, 49, a citizen of the Dominican Republic recently residing in New Britain, with fentanyl and cocaine offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston Police officer has agreed to plead guilty in connection with committing over $16,000 in overtime fraud while assigned to the Boston Police Department’s evidence warehouse.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California reminded taxpayers of the May 17 filing and payment deadline.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. James E. Clyburn, Chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, issued the following statement after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced new guidance indicating that, except in rare cases, fully vaccinated people can safely be indoors without a mask and without distancing...
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Portland, Ore. - Effective as of May 12th, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is prohibiting the use of fireworks, exploding targets or metallic targets for target shooting, sky lanterns, and firing tracer or incendiary devices on all BLM-managed public lands throughout Oregon and Washington. Additionally, the Northwest Oregon District is announcing a year-round fire order to decrease human-caused wildfires as well.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: FAIRBANKS - Dwayne Thrasher, 33, from Stebbins, Alaska, was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing to examine offshore energy development in federal waters and leasing under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
By USDA Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Jewel H. Bronaugh by voice vote to serve as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture.
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing on Superfund sites, Subcommittee on the Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) advocated for the Biden administration to build on the successes made by the Trump administration.
