News from May 2021
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in today’s Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing on Superfund sites.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C- Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the House passed a series of bipartisan mental health bills...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI, OHIO - Ronald R. Geesner, 66, of Cincinnati, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to providing a false statement to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Dear Dr. Woodcock: We write to express concern over the lack of transparency related to the budget for food programs at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As you know, the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) receives approximately 70 percent of the funds Congress appropriates for the food program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today sentenced a Pekin, Ill., woman, Rachel Miller, 29, of the 1400 block of Summit Dr., to serve 30 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a child. In addition, Judge Shadid ordered that Miller remain on lifetime supervised release upon completion of her prison sentence and register as a sex offender.
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today released the following statement after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced plans to rescind a Trump Administration rule that would limit would warp the cost-benefit analysis EPA uses for regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks, as prepared, during a Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security hearing on "Juvenile Justice Pipeline and the Road Back to Integration...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Brandon Shell to 155 months in prison today. The 22-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty, in February, to one count of armed carjacking and one count of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By DOE 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.
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 Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Federal, State, and Private Forestlands: Opportunities for Addressing Climate Change."
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 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, released the below statement following her meeting with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to discuss a path forward on infrastructure. Also attending ...
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement in response to the Biden Administration announcing that it will invest $7.4 billion from the American Rescue Plan to recruit and hire public health workers to fight the pandemic and prepare for future public health challenges.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: North Bend, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management named Steven D. Lydick as the new Coos Bay District Manager on May 9, 2021, after 23 years of service in federal land management agencies across the country. As District Manager, Steve will be responsible for the management of 312,000 acres of BLM public lands in southwest Oregon. Prior to the appointment, Lydick had served as the Acting District Manager since July 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Cody Davis, 29, has been sentenced to 262 months in federal prison for carjacking and brandishing a firearm. Acting U.S. Attorney, Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., announced the sentence today.
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks as prepared for delivery today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “The CLEAN Future Act: Superfund Proposals to Advance Cleanups, Equity, and Climate Resilience:"
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Browning man accused of kidnapping a woman and strangling her in two separate assaults in 2020 on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation admitted to charges today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In today’s edition of Science, 18 scientists joined in an open letter entitled, “Investigate the origins of COVID-19." House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that on Wednesday, May 12, a federal jury found Ronald Sharp, 42, of Cleveland, Ohio, guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C- Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the House passed a series of bipartisan mental health bills...
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Legislation by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) to strengthen Buy American laws has advanced in the Senate. The Make It in America Act will strengthen Buy American requirements and close loopholes to ensure the federal government is spending taxpayer dollars...
