News from April 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Judiciary Committee on April 4.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
Release: Moderator: Good day from the U.S. Department of State’s Asia Pacific Media Hub in Manila. I am the Hub Director, Zia Syed, and I want to thank you all for joining this briefing. Today we are pleased to be joined from Washington, DC, by Jerry Guilbert, Chief of Programs for Weapons Removal and Abatement at the U.S. Department of State.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. House Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-Texas) issued the following statement as OECD negotiations stalled once again over its global minimum tax framework...

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) announced today that Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, USA, Ret., who served as National Security Adviser, will be the Republican witness at the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee...

By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
Enabling Forest Investment Development Facility (ForInvest) grant opened on April 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGE BRATSENIS, 73, last residing in Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for committing armed bank robberies.

By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
The United States filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against General Medicine, P.C. (“General Medicine”), Thomas M. Prose, M.D. – the owner of General Medicine, and seventeen related corporate entities owned by Prose.

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
Obed Wild & Scenic River is initiating a new volunteer program this year for river cleanup.

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
A Hampton, Iowa woman who received unemployment benefits in other people’s names pled guilty on March 24, 2022, in federal court in Sioux City.

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
Washington man pleads guilty to guiding illegal rim-to-rim hike in Grand Canyon National Park

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Committee passed workforce development and retirement legislation:

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to reports that the Biden administration will extend the student loan payment and interest moratorium for the fourth time:

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at a full committee markup regarding workforce development and retirement:

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s (NPS) oldest active ranger, retired today after a decade and a half of sharing her personal experiences and the efforts of women from diverse backgrounds who worked on the World War II Home Front.

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
In celebration of National Poetry Month, poet Jodie Hollander will lead a workshop at the Montezuma Well picnic area on April 21, 2022 from 9:30 am to 12:30pm.

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
Spring is here, and so is a regional celebration of ecology, Spring Nature Fling. This annual event runs from early April through mid-May and highlights the wonders of nature in central Appalachia.

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
Biden’s Obamacare Expansion Chips Away at Employer Sponsored Insurance

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
The establishment of Title IX in 1972 revolutionized women’s sports and implemented groundbreaking anti-harassment policies that advanced equal access to educational opportunities for women and men.

By Press release submission | Apr 5, 2022
Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky pressing the agency to clarify the science behind its decision to terminate the Title 42 order after apparent inconsistencies between the rationale used to support the decision and the current state of the ongoing response.