News from April 2022
By State Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
Release: QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for being with us. I wanted to ask you about what is going on right now. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs had told Congress that this will likely last years, this war. A protracted war is going to last years, according to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Will today’s new commitment of Javelins, anti-tank weapons to Ukraine shorten that timeline?
By EPA Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page rule on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund 2022 grant opened on April 6.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
Release: Fifty years ago, the world was changing rapidly. Consumer demand for foreign products and commodities was on the rise. World agricultural trade was expanding rapidly. And more people than ever before were traveling across the country and around the world. Although these changes accelerated economic growth ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - A woman in Florida pleaded guilty today to a federal racketeering conspiracy that victimized Mexican agricultural workers admitted into the United States under the H-2A temporary visa program. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg for the Middle District of Florida made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for illegally possessing a loaded handgun on a Chicago street.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON, April 7, 2022 --The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making available nearly $10 million for states and Tribal governments to control and prevent chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild and farmed cervids (e.g., deer, elk). State departments ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: Swift Investigations, Arrests and Charges Credited to Efforts of Joint Carjacking Task Force.
By State Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
On March 18, 2022, President Joe Biden announced his intention to nominate Candace Bond as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Armando Segovia, 32, of Gallup, New Mexico, pleaded guilty today in federal court to abusive sexual contact with a child in Indian Country. Segovia must surrender to the U.S. Marshals by noon, April 13. He will be held in detention pending final sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on April 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - A former police officer with the Sewall’s Point, Florida Police Department has pled guilty in Ft. Pierce federal court to attempting to sexually entice a 15-year-old boy and produce child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
Release: Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN), Chair of the Defense Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the United States Africa Command (CLOSED).
By State Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are calling on the Biden Administration to establish an interagency and international strategy for the U.S. to help mitigate the looming food security crisis spurred by Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
By John Kelly | Apr 6, 2022
Senators Joe Manchin and Mark Kelly, of West Virginia and Arizona respectively, are reportedly pushing the Biden administration to create a new five-year oil and gas leasing plan for the Gulf of Mexico.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered a San Jose trucking company to pay more than $145,000 in back wages and damages after a federal whistleblower investigation found the company retaliated against two workers who refused to drive commercial motor vehicles when they felt too sick or fatigued to drive safely.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - A San Antonio man was sentenced today to five years of home confinement and ordered to pay $273,372 in restitution for preparing false tax returns.
