News published on Federal Newswire in August 2022

News from August 2022


News Release: Brady: Build Back Better Tax Hikes Will Translate Into Higher and Longer Inflation.


Hanford Plant Prepares for Melter Heatup, Begins Installing Startup Heaters

News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The weather isn’t the only thing heating up at the Hanford Site this summer, as staff at the Low-Activity Waste (LAW) Facility at the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) are preparing to install 18 temporary heaters to start up the first of the facility’s two 300-ton glass melters.


News Release: FACT CHECK: Schumer Manchin Tax Increases Worsen Inflation, Delay Deficit Reduction, Weaken the Economy.


News Release: Join a birding expert from the Dunes-Calumet Audubon Society on Sunday, August 7, from 9:00 am to 11:00 am, for a migration birding hiking. Meet inside the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center and carpool to the chosen birding location. No experience required. Bring binoculars and dress for the weather. The Indiana Dunes Visitor Center is located at 1215 North State Road 49, about one mile north of Interstate 94.


Baton Rouge roofing contractor’s failure to heed February warning  turns deadly as unprotected worker plunges through skylight in April

News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - A Baton Rouge roofing contractor - who ignored federal safety inspectors’ February 2022 warnings that not complying with required fall protection standards exposed their workers to serious dangers - now faces the consequences after an investigation into a worker’s deadly fall at a different work site two months later found the incident could have been prevented if protective devices were used.


News Release: Brady Portrait to Hang in Ways and Means Hearing Room.


Land Management Bureau set to publish a new notice on Aug. 3

There are four releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 3.


News Release: More than five months into Russia’s brutal and unprovoked assault the people of Ukraine inspire the world as they defend their country and their freedom. The United States continues to stand with Allies and partners from more than 50 countries in providing vital security assistance to support Ukraine’s defense of its sovereignty and territorial integrity against Russia’s aggression.


News Release: Thirty-four members of a methamphetamine ring that operated in the Dimmitt, Texas area have been sentenced to a combined 364 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.


Finance Committee and the bills it addressed on Aug. 1

There was activity on one bill related to the Finance Committee on Aug. 1.


ADVISORY: Unveiling of Official Portrait for Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady

News Release: ADVISORY: Unveiling of Official Portrait for Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady.


“EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.” published by the Congressional Record  on Aug. 2

The House section of the Congressional Record published “EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.” on Aug. 2.


National Park Service to Search Lakes for Zebra Mussels

News Release: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: The National Park Service will search for zebra mussels in and near Voyageurs National Park from August 2 through August 5, 2022. The effort will include a SCUBA team who will dive to inspect areas of Black Bay on Rainy Lake just outside of park boundaries where the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MN DNR) detected zebra mussel veligers (larval stage of zebra mussels) in 2021. The divers will also search in other park waters.


Pilot Charged in Cocaine Trafficking Scheme Extradited from Paraguay

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that RONIER SANCHEZ ALONSO, 46, a citizen of Mexico who is charged in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, has been extradited from Paraguay.


News Release: It is with great pride that S&T flew the commemorative 9/11 American flag last week.


News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), a regional public transportation authority based in Philadelphia. The settlement resolves the department’s complaint alleging that three officers of the SEPTA ...


House and Senate Republican Committee Leaders Highlight Concerns with Administration’s Anti-Pipeline Policies and Inaction on Safety Law Requirements

News Release: House and Senate Committee Republican leaders today expressed concerns that the Biden Administration is putting its anti-pipeline agenda and policies ahead of the needs of the country and failing to implement key pipeline safety provisions in law as Congress intended.


NIST Researchers Develop Miniature Lens for Trapping Atoms

News Release: Atoms are notoriously difficult to control. They zigzag like fireflies, tunnel out of the strongest containers and jitter even at temperatures near absolute zero.


Benin National Day

Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I offer congratulations to the people of Benin on the sixty-second anniversary of Benin’s independence.


News Release: White House Recession “Rebrand" Won’t Reduce Americans’ Suffering.