News published on Federal Newswire in October 2021

News from October 2021


The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Chinese national and naturalized U.S. citizen was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for conspiring to launder tens of millions of dollars in drug proceeds on behalf of foreign drug trafficking organizations.


Couple Sentenced For Selling Turtles In Violation Of The Lacey Act

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that VINCENT FELIX RIVERE, age 48, and MEGAN LYNN SHOEMAKER, age 36, residents of Maurepas, Louisiana, were sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to selling Louisiana box turtles on July 13, 2017. United States District Court Judge Wendy B. Vitter sentenced RIVERE and SHOEMAKER to serve one (1) year of probation.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after President Biden announced several nominations to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA):


Nine Therapists Arrested in Scheme to Defraud Program for Developmentally Disabled Children

News Release: Defendants Billed New York State Early Intervention Program More Than $3 Million For Therapy Sessions That Never Occurred.


The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a seven page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Committee Democrats Continue to Ignore Biden’s Border Crisis

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Representative Pat Fallon (R-TX) sent a letter to Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney and Committee Democrats lamenting their continued and persistent inaction on conducting oversight over the deteriorating situation...


Pallone on Biden’s Nominations to the FCC and NTIA

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after President Biden announced several nominations to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA):


The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


US Department of Labor initiates rulemaking to protect workers, outdoors and indoors, from heat hazards amid rising temperatures

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Record-breaking heat in the U.S. in 2021 endangered millions of workers exposed to heat illness and injury in both indoor and outdoor work environments. Workers in outdoor and indoor work settings without adequate climate-controlled environments are at risk of hazardous heat exposure, and workers of color are exposed disproportionately to hazardous levels of heat in essential jobs across these work settings.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Atlantic Man Sentenced for Methamphetamine Offense

News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa - Christopher M. Jespersen, age 38, of Atlantic, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 120 months in prison for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. His prison term will be followed by five of supervised release. According...


Moab Project Celebrates Milestone: 12 Million Tons of Tailings Disposed

News Release: MOAB, Utah - EM ’s Moab Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project recently accomplished an EM 2021 priority by successfully relocating another million tons of uranium mill tailings away from the Colorado River, bringing the cumulative total to 12 million tons permanently disposed.


Wyden Statement at Finance Committee Hearing on the Nominations of María Pagán and Chris Wilson to USTR, Brent Neiman and Joshua Frost to Treasury, and Samuel Bagenstos to HHS

News Release: The Finance Committee meets this morning to discuss an important set of nominations that span three federal agencies and at least two continents.


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Memphis, TN - Kolonji Warren, 24, and Kristopher Harris, 23, have pled guilty to carjacking. Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., Acting U.S. Attorney announced the plea today.