News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
OJJDP FY 2022 Invited to Apply — Byrne Discretionary Community Project Funding/Byrne Discretionary Grants Program grant opened on Aug. 5.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Despite Democrats’ claims that their latest budget reconciliation bill will lower prices for families, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) today confirmed that the Democrats’ proposed prescription drug price controls will cause prices for new drugs to be more expensive, in response...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that the Committee passed their bipartisan IMPACTT Human Trafficking Act to enhance the Department of Homeland Security’s ability...
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
Release: Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) Commander, Vice-Admiral Michael Boyle, US Navy, and Deputy Commander, Rear-Admiral Christopher Robinson, Royal Canadian Navy speak from Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, near the conclusion of RIMPAC 2022, the world’s premier combined and joint international maritime exercise, which runs from June 29 to August 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement regarding the conviction and sentencing of U.S. citizen Brittney Griner to nine years in Russian prison...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott released highlights of the Committee’s activity and accomplishments throughout the 117th Congress.
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: MS GARCIA: Well, it’s my pleasure to be here today with all of you and the Secretary. I wanted to welcome you to the YSEALI town hall on environmental responsibility. Everyone knows me, and I know them, but I Amparo Garcia. I’m a Cultural Affairs officer. And without further ado, I’d like to introduce ...
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: All right. Good afternoon, everyone. It’s particularly good to see my friend and partner Josep Borrell and all of our colleagues from the EU. We are partners of first resort when it comes to tackling the many challenges that are before us that are having an impact on the lives of our...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: On Tuesday, extensive coordination and cooperation efforts between United States and Guatemalan law enforcement authorities culminated in the Guatemalan National Civil Police (PNC) conducting a significant enforcement operation to disrupt and dismantle a transnational human smuggling organization. This operation included the arrest of four alleged human smugglers who have been indicted in the United States.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 8.
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken today met with European Union High Representative Josep Borrell on the margins of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Secretary Blinken and High Representative Borrell discussed our ...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 9.
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
Release: FOREIGN MINISTER MARSUDI: Secretary Blinken, Tony, it is a pleasure to welcome you back in the region. And I appreciate very much your presence in this meeting. It shows the U.S. commitment to further strengthen relations with ASEAN. And thank you also for hosting the ASEAN-U.S. Summit in Washington, D.C., on the 12th and 13th of May this year.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: HAWAII NATIONAL PARK, Hawaiʻi - Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park invites the community to participate in a public meeting regarding protection and potential future use of the remote 16,451-acre Kahuku-Pōhue parcel the park acquired last month.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted a comment letter today in strong support of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) proposed rules to prohibit menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and to prohibit all characterizing flavors in cigars. The agency proposed the rules earlier this year to reduce the appeal of cigarettes and cigars, particularly among young people, and improve public health outcomes.
By Press Release | Aug 5, 2022
“Our Congressional delegation’s visit should be seen as a strong statement that America stands with Taiwan," Pelosi said.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
“Next Meeting of the SENATE + Next Meeting of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES + Other End Matter” was published on pages D905-D906 of the Congressional Record on Aug. 5.
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Secretary Blinken commended the Turkish diplomatic efforts that led to the first shipment of Ukrainian grain leaving the Black Sea since the start ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
The Congressional Record published “THRIFTY FOOD PLAN” in the Extensions of Remarks section on Aug. 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Judiciary Committee on Aug. 4.
