News from May 2021
By DOE Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter Thursday to Secretary of State Antony...
By EPA Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Full Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY) wrote to their colleagues on the Appropriations Committee today requesting at least $750 million in Fiscal Year 2022 funding for critical network security initiatives authorized under the USA Telecommunications Act.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tyren Terrance, age 26, of Hogansburg, New York, pled guilty today to conspiring to distribute, and possessing with intent to distribute, 100 kilograms or more of marijuana. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2021
Release: The International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) has issued a call for topics. The call period is May 4 to Sept. 15, 2021. Specifically, the IPPC is seeking proposals for new plant health standards and new tools that support the implementation of existing standards. IPPC standards play a critical ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Drug Trafficking Organization Operated a “Drug Shop" Near the 2600 Block of Greenmount Avenue and the 400 Block of East Lorraine Avenue.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Booming Economic Recovery Will Become a Biden-Bust.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Deepwater, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to fraudulently obtaining more than $500,000 in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOE Newswire | May 5, 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), released an investigative report titled, “The Solyndra Syndrome & the Green Stimulus Delusion." The report examines the striking parallels between the failed green energy stimulus policies of the Obama administration and the policy priorities of the Biden administration.
By State Newswire | May 5, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas urged small businesses to proactively guard against the growing threat of ransomware during a virtual event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Video of the full event is available here.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 5, 2021 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the availability of $92.2 million in competitive grant funding under the 2018 Farm Bill’s Local Agriculture Market Program (LAMP). The LAMP grants announced today are funded through the Farmers Market program as part ...
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: USDA Has Deployed 1,298 Disaster, Public Health Specialists to Assist with Federal Response WASHINGTON, May 5, 2021 — In January 2021, President Biden released the National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness. The plan is driven by science, data, and public health to improve the effectiveness of our nation’s fight against COVID-19 and to restore trust, accountability and a sense of common purpose in our response to the pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has appointed Mary Ida Townson as the U.S. Trustee for Florida, Georgia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (Region 21). Ms. Townson will assume her duties in June and will replace Nancy Gargula, who is the U.S. Trustee in Region 10 and who ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland issued the following statement: “Generations of American Indians and Alaska Natives have experienced violence or mourned a murdered or missing family member or loved one. The lasting effects of such trauma and suffering ripple across their communities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: An Alabama doctor and her husband were sentenced Tuesday to 52 and 30 months in prison, respectively, for prescribing and dispensing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose and outside the course of professional practice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Brian M. Boynton, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Civil Division, released the following statement: “The CDC’s eviction moratorium — which Congress extended last December and the CDC later extended through June 30, 2021 — protects many renters who cannot make their monthly ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: A federal court in the Northern District of California entered an order today authorizing the IRS to serve a John Doe summons on Payward Ventures Inc., and Subsidiaries d/b/a Kraken (Kraken) seeking information about U.S. taxpayers who conducted at least the equivalent of $20,000 in transactions in cryptocurrency ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Two California men were each sentenced today to two years in prison for accepting bribes in return for a guarantee of a city permit to open a commercial cannabis dispensary.
By Fed Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday invited public comment on proposed guidelines to evaluate requests for accounts and payment services at Federal Reserve Banks ("Account Access Guidelines").
By State Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu and Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong in London to promote trilateral solidarity and discuss shared concerns about North Korea’s nuclear ...
