News from April 2022
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
There was activity on two bills related to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on April 4.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today welcomed the announcement of the Biden-Harris Action Plan for Building Better School Infrastructure, which includes key investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and American Rescue Plan championed by Senator Carper.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
Indigenous People's Finance Access Facility (IPFAF) grant opened on April 5.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
President Joe Biden nominated Naz Durakoglu Monday to be assistant secretary of state for Legislative Affairs, the White House said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man today admitted robbing a bank in Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: On April 4, 2022, the Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs released the 21st Edition of To Walk the Earth in Safety , a report underscoring the accomplishments of the U.S. Conventional Weapons Destruction (CWD) Program in 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On March 31, 2022, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 20 violent gang members from the municipality of Cabo Rojo with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute controlled substances...
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: Melville ten Cate Orchestrated Tender Offer Fraud and Other Related Fraud Schemes.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
Release: On this day three years ago, hundreds of thousands of Sudanese people embarked on a peaceful sit-in, demanding the opportunity to shape their country’s destiny. The sit-in included Sudanese from all walks of life and all parts of the country: doctors and farmers, women and youth, people hailing from...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: MOBILE, AL - The illegal pay practices of a Louisville, Kentucky, staffing agency that provides aviation maintenance and repair workers to airlines nationwide shortchanged workers in Mobile, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: National Park Service officials today announced that multiple road projects on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Roanoke, Virginia, are scheduled to be complete in the coming months. Specifically, the rehabilitation of the Roanoke River Bridge, at Milepost 114.7, is expected to be finished in June; and repairs needed to stabilize slope failures near mileposts 119.7 and 127.9 are expected to conclude by the end of September.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Carlos Car’tre Ikard, 26, of Hickory, N.C., was sentenced to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell presided over today’s sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on April 5, 2022, Baudilio Jimenez-Canan, age 30, was sentenced to time served of 28 days of imprisonment and 1 year of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Dallas Michael Acoff, of Euclid, Ohio, was indicted today on drug charges, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Las Cruces District announces a public comment period for the draft Recreation Area Management Plan and Environmental Assessment for the Lower Gila Box area. The public comment period is open from April 5 to May 5, 2022.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Foreign Affairs Committee on April 4.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, wrote an op-ed for the Wheeling Intelligencer over the weekend detailing how the Biden administration’s domestic energy policies have led to record-high gas prices and how these decisions exacerbate the energy crisis in Europe given the invasion of Ukraine.
By T.H. Lawrence | Apr 5, 2022
Dr. Rana Siu Inboden says the United States and other Western nations must stand up for international human rights, even at the price of offending China and other nations who oppress their citizens and other people.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Chairman David Scott delivered the following statement after today's Farm Bill Hearing on Renewable Energy Opportunities in Rural America...
