News from May 2021
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: STUDY: Dems’ Supercharged Second Death Tax Kills at Least 800,000 Jobs, Slashes Paychecks.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - FEMA Corps team Wave 6 officially kicked off their volunteer efforts on Saturday, May 1, 2021, supporting DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Office of Volunteerism and Partnerships Day of Action COVID-19 door knocking campaign. Aimed at mitigating the effects of COVID-19, over 1,000 community volunteers activated around the city in support of residents making a plan to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Clint Johnson today announced the results of the May 2021 Federal Grand Jury A.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- This morning, under the leadership of Top Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA), the Ways & Means Committee passed H.R. 2954, the Securing a Strong Retirement Act of 2021. This legislation expands opportunities for Americans to increase their retirement...
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. May 5, 2021 - Recently, National Park Service scientists and fire crews were surveying the effects from the 2020 Castle Fire in Sequoia National Park, when they observed a still smoldering and smoking giant sequoia tree that appears to be caused from last year’s fire.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: DAYTON - Samuel Hayes, 61, of Dayton, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to armed bank robbery and using a firearm during a crime of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Rep. Buchanan: Make America Competitive Though Effective Infrastructure and Pro-Growth Trade Initiatives.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: A Tulsa man was sentenced today in federal court for cutting his girlfriend’s throat and for illegally possessing a firearm, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, man was arrested and charged with the conspiring to distribute narcotics after he purchased a large quantity of fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of New York, NY, has been sentenced in federal court to a sentence of time served on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute heroin, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2021
Release: Washington - 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: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Justin Rosenzweig, 33, of Mumford, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography involving a prepubescent minor following a prior conviction, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Additional defendants sentenced this week. MACON, Ga.- The leader of Macon’s “Get Dat Money" (GDM) methamphetamine drug trafficking organization was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison as the result of a lengthy investigation into the network’s illegal activities throughout Middle Georgia. According...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources completed a markup that began last week, reporting a total of nine bills out of committee. Several of these bills would devastate American communities that depend on energy revenues, eliminate good-paying union jobs, impact longstanding...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) kicked off a committee markup on the Securing a Strong Retirement (SECURE) Act of 2021, a bipartisan bill that will further improve workers’ long-term financial wellbeing.
By DOL Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Rick Allen (R-GA) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing on lowering the cost of prescription drugs...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, held a hearing examining poor treatment of farmers by Cheniere Energy, which owns the Midship pipeline in Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton has sentenced Ricardo Silva De Oliveira (33, Orlando) to 31 months in federal prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. In addition, De Oliveira was ordered to pay $190,530 in restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | May 5, 2021
Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's TSA: Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Implications for Budget and Operations hearing.
By State Newswire | May 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement following the Biden Administration’s announcement it would increase the cap on refugees from 15,000 to 62,500.
