News from August 2022
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 5.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 5.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Agriculture Committee on Aug. 3.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 5.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) to ensure that the Department of the Homeland Security (DHS) is efficiently using existing resources and expanding available tools to stop the flow of deadly and illicit drugs like fentanyl into...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today announced that it will award $16.9 million from the Small Community Air Service Development Program to help 25 communities in 20 states develop their own solutions to local air service needs. These federal grants assist small communities across the country with maintaining and building air service options.
By State Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the European Union.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - With the construction season in full swing, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and more than 10,000 voluntary employee members of the Associated General Contractors of Chicagoland are working together to protect industry workers from common hazards and avoid adding to the hundreds of thousands of U.S. workers injured, some fatally, each year.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - On Monday, Aug. 1, Vice President Kamala Harris and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced the selections and status of subapplications of its Fiscal Year 2021 pre-disaster hazard mitigation grant programs, Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) and Flood Mitigation Assistance (FMA).
By USDA Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Aug. 5.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reached the milestone of 10,000 projects approved to address the damage after Hurricane María. This total represents nearly $28 billion in funds to address various works that vary between emergency work and the reconstruction of roads, public buildings, community spaces and others.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: BOTHELL, Wash. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) authorized the use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Miller Road Fire burning in Oregon.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK -Trustees to the Teamsters Local 272 Welfare Fund in New York City have agreed to amend the fund to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor, regarding a fund requirement that participants bear 90 percent of the cost of medical and pharmacy claims above certain annual thresholds.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Appropriations Committee on Aug. 3.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the tragic passing of Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Ranking Member Jackie Walorski, and two members of her staff, Emma Thomson and Zachery Potts...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and John Cornyn (R-TX) to improve screening of vehicles and cargo entering the United States by increasing the use of non-intrusive inspection systems has advanced in the Senate. These technologies have enabled frontline...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced their bipartisan Offices of Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction and Health Security Act has been passed by the Senate...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced today that the Committee has passed their Global Catastrophic Risk Mitigation Act. The bipartisan legislation will ensure...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), sought unanimous consent to pass her Let Doctors Provide Reproductive Health Care Act to protect doctors’ ability to safely provide abortion care in states where it remains legal-but Republican Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) blocked the straightforward and urgently-needed legislation.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2022
There were 102 notices published by the Commerce Department in July, according to the Federal Register.
