News from April 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
This bill is sponsored by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that former New York City Police Department (“NYPD") officer and Bronxville, New York resident JOHN CICERO was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas to 10 years in prison for distributing large...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Nicaragua has a highly centralized, authoritarian political system dominated by President Daniel Ortega Saavedra and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo Zambrana. Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front party exercises total control over the country’s executive, legislative, judicial, and...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The Republic of Austria is a parliamentary democracy with constitutional power shared between a popularly elected president and a bicameral parliament (Federal Assembly). The multiparty parliament and the coalition government it elects exercise most day-to-day governmental powers. Parliamentary elections in September 2019 and presidential elections in 2016 were considered free and fair.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: BENJAMIN Allegedly Used His Official Authority While a New York State Senator to Procure a State-Funded Grant in Exchange for Campaign Contributions.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: BOSTON Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped a man from carrying a loaded firearm onto an airplane at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) Monday, April 11, 2022.
By Bob Pepalis | Apr 12, 2022
President Joe Biden nominated Steve Dettelbach to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives April 11.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Hungary is a multiparty parliamentary democracy. The unicameral National Assembly (parliament) exercises legislative authority. It elects the president (the head of state) every five years. The president appoints a prime minister from the majority party or coalition in parliament following national elections ...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The Republic of Serbia is a constitutional, multiparty, parliamentary democracy, led by a president. The country held regular elections for seats in the unicameral National Assembly (parliament) in June 2020 and for the presidency in 2017. International observers stated the country efficiently organized ...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who is both head of state and head of government. The 1992 Basic Law sets out the system of governance, rights of citizens, and powers and duties of the government, and it provides that the Quran and Sunna (the traditions...
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: The Dominican Republic is a representative constitutional democracy. In July 2020 Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party was elected president for a four-year term, the first transfer of power from one party to another in 16 years. Impartial outside observers assessed the election as generally free, fair, and orderly.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Germany is a constitutional democracy. Citizens choose their representatives periodically in free and fair multiparty elections. The lower chamber of the federal parliament (Bundestag) elects the chancellor as head of the federal government. The second legislative chamber, the Federal Council (Bundesrat),...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Senegal is a republic dominated by a strong executive branch. In 2019 voters re-elected Macky Sall as president for a second term of five years in elections local and international observers considered generally free and fair. Observers judged the 2017 legislative elections to be also generally free and fair.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on April 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: LYONS, Colo. - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited Colorado today, where she and U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack met with federal wildland fire leadership to discuss local, state and federal wildland fire preparedness and response that will be bolstered by historic investments through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
Release: Ethiopia’s constitution provides for an ethnic-based federal system of government. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed leads the Prosperity Party, which controls the government. The Prosperity Party dominated the sixth general election held on June 21, winning 96 percent of the seats in the House of Peoples’ Representatives...
By David Hutton | Apr 12, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking nominations for candidates to serve on its Farm, Ranch, and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee (FRRCC).
By Fed Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board announced on Monday that it is accepting applications from individuals who wish to be considered for membership on the Community Advisory Council, or CAC, which advises the Board on issues affecting consumers and communities. It is made up of a diverse group of experts and representatives of consumer and community development interests, including affordable housing, workforce development, small business, and asset and wealth building.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2022
There was activity on two bills related to the Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11.
