News from August 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
News Release: Brady: Build Back Better Tax Hikes Will Translate Into Higher and Longer Inflation.

By DOE Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
News Release: FACT CHECK: Schumer Manchin Tax Increases Worsen Inflation, Delay Deficit Reduction, Weaken the Economy.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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.

By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
News Release: Brady Portrait to Hang in Ways and Means Hearing Room.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
There are four releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 3.
By State Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Finance Committee on Aug. 1.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
News Release: ADVISORY: Unveiling of Official Portrait for Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
The House section of the Congressional Record published “EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.” on Aug. 2.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
News Release: It is with great pride that S&T flew the commemorative 9/11 American flag last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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 ...

By US DOT Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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.

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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.

By State Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
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.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 2, 2022
News Release: White House Recession “Rebrand" Won’t Reduce Americans’ Suffering.