News from May 2021
By DOE Newswire | May 27, 2021
Release: Testimony as Delivered by Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - Anthony Meyers, an inmate at United States Penitentiary (USP) Lee in Jonesville, Virginia, was sentenced recently to 42 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a weapon inside the prison.
By USDA Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released the following opening remarks, as prepared, from the hearing to consider the nomination of Janie Simms Hipp to be general counsel at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)...
By State Newswire | May 27, 2021
Release: The United States condemns the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) sanctions on a former U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF ) commissioner. These sanctions follow the PRC’s March retaliatory sanctions against two USCIRF commissioners as well as Canadian, UK, and European officials,...
By DOE Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the Office of Environmental Management (EM) will award Idaho Environmental Coalition, LLC (IEC) of Tullahoma, TN, the Idaho Cleanup Project (ICP) End State contract at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) Site near Idaho Falls, Idaho.
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Copper Center, AK-At approximately 4:45 p.m. on May 26, park rangers at Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve were notified that a hiker was injured in a fall near Kennecott, AK.
By DOE Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee...
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on National Security, and Reps. Elaine G. Luria, Sara Jacobs, and Scott Peters, sent a letter to Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas W. Harker requesting information about the Department of the Navy’s plans to reduce funding and eliminate staff for the Naval Audit Service (NAS).
By DOE Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) delivered the following opening remarks during Thursday’s markup.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - An Anchorage man was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason to 10 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for the attempted sexual exploitation, coercion and enticement of a minor.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Top Republican of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), and U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID), Top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, sent a bicameral letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen requesting a revised Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: One Defendant Admits To Conspiring To Obtain City Contracts Through Former SF DPW Director By Providing Money And Gifts, Including A Tractor, While The Other Defendant Agrees To Cooperate With FBI.
By State Newswire | May 27, 2021
Release: The United States is concerned by recent developments along the international border between Armenia and Azerbaijan, including the detention of several Armenian soldiers by Azerbaijani forces. We call on both sides to urgently and peacefully resolve this incident. We also continue to call on Azerbaijan ...
By EPA Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) delivered the following opening remarks during Thursday’s markup.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. (“BJB" or “the Bank"), a Swiss bank with international operations, admitted today in federal court in Brooklyn that it conspired to launder over $36 million in bribes through the United States to soccer officials with the Fédération Internationale de Football...
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C. - Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on the Biden administration’s decision to defend in court ConocoPhillips’ Willow Master Development Plan in the National Petroleum Reserve - Alaska.
By State Newswire | May 27, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: Defendant previously deported three times. BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after deportation. Antonio Curio-Ruiz, 53, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper to...
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: MOOSE, WY- Grand Teton looks forward to welcoming visitors this summer. Learn how to Plan Like A Park Ranger by following our list of the top 10 things you should know before visiting the park. The 2021 season is expected to be BUSY, so make sure to plan ahead, recreate responsibly, and help ensure this iconic landscape may be enjoyed by future generations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2021
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A federal jury convicted a Wilmington man yesterday on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectible amount of phencyclidine (PCP), a quantity of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana and possession with the intent to distribute a quantity of PCP and aiding and abetting.
