News from October 2021
By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Yesterday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul delivered the following opening statement at a full committee hearing on the Biden Administration’s FY22 Budget Request for the Peace Corps, Development Finance Corporation, and Millennium Challenge Corporation.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, FEMA announced two key initiatives to advance climate change adaptation and promote disaster risk reduction and community resilience nationwide. The two initiatives are a Climate Adaptation Enterprise Steering Group and the stakeholder engagement process established to help develop the agency’s 2022-2026 Strategic Plan. These actions are the critical first steps in FEMA’s efforts to address the climate crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A St. Paul man pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm as a felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Member Rep. Jimmy Panetta delivered the following statement at the House Rules Committee Hearing on H.R. 5376 "Build Back Better Act" in support of the agricultural provisions included by the Committee.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel Valley man whose conviction on a previous sex offense ended his career in education was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity over the internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Fall River man entered a plea of guilty on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021 in federal court in Boston in connection with travelling to New Hampshire to attempt to have sex with a teenage girl.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement on Democrats’ recently proposed minimum tax on American corporations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A London, Ohio, man was sentenced in federal court today to 20 months in prison and five years of supervised release for making online threats to individuals connected with a non-profit organization whose mission is to help people access safe abortions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG, - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 27, 2021, Melton Montgomery, age 27, of Gwynn Oak, Maryland, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of a firearm by prohibited person.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO-Golden Gate National Recreation Area is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit on Alcatraz Island which tells the story of the United States prison system through the voices and experiences of persons formerly incarcerated, scholars, and criminal justice advocates. Starting Thursday...
By Press Release | Oct 28, 2021
Tracy Stone-Manning was ceremonially sworn in today as Director of the Bureau of Land Management by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: Defendant Was the Child’s Stepfather. WASHINGTON - A 62-year-old man, of Southeast Washington, D.C., has been found guilty by a jury of federal child exploitation offenses, including production of child pornography, enticement of a minor, and possession of child pornography, as well as multiple counts...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: Democrats’ Latest Scramble for Trillions of Dollars in Tax Hikes Will Send American Jobs Overseas and Harm Seniors’ Retirement Security.
By Press Release | Oct 28, 2021
The Department of the Interior today released draft guidelines to implement the Indian Youth Service Corps (IYSC) Program and announced that it would hold Nation-to-Nation consultations with Tribes, Alaska Native corporations, and the Native Hawaiian community on implementation of the Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. -Ahmad Rashad Weston, aka “Blood," 42, of St. Petersburg, was sentenced to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute 100 grams or more of a drug mixture containing heroin and fentanyl, as well as 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of McKeesport has been sentenced in federal court to 30 months of imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and a $10,000 fine on his conviction of possessing unlicensed firearms, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A St. Paul man pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm as a felon, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 28, 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 on the landmark investments included in Democrats’ Build Back Better framework to ensure that students and workers across the country can get the education and workforce training they need to succeed in a 21st century economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG, - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Oct. 27, 2021, Christopher Demarcus Bethea, age 47, of South Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury for robbing a Cumberland County jewelry store.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - On March 3, 2021, a federal grand jury indicted Tishonda Turner for knowingly making a false and fictitiousstatement to a firearms dealer, which statement was intended and likely to deceive the licensed dealer, and Freddie Tilmon for knowingly possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
