News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced in federal court in Boston for his role leading a wide-ranging drug trafficking conspiracy reaching from Boston to Brockton to Cape Cod.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 28, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Dec. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Debbie Dingell, issued the following statements after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its preliminary analysis of women’s representation in the workforce and the status of the gender pay gap between 2018 to 2021:
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the House voted favorably 219 to 205 last night to pass S. 3905, the Preventing Organizational Conflicts of Interest in Federal Acquisition Act:
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, held a hearing to examine how the surge of anti-LGBTQI+ policies advanced in legislatures across the country and the proliferation of extreme anti-LGBTQI+ rhetoric are fueling violence against LGBTQI+ people in the United States, including the mass shooting that took place at the LGBTQI+ nightclub, Club Q, in Colorado Springs last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A Macomb County federally licensed firearms dealer was charged in an indictment with illegally importing Glock conversion devices from Russia and failing to keep proper records, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced today.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, held a hearing to examine the ongoing threat to American democracy posed by white supremacist ideologies, and how the federal government can confront domestic terrorist threats.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Ms. Debra Steidel Wall, Acting Archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), in light of reports that additional classified records were recovered from former President Trump’s storage facility in Florida during a recent search and turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Chairman Raskin to Hold Hearing on the Threat to Democracy Posed by Anti-Democratic Extremist Groups
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Following Club Q Mass Shooting, Oversight Committee to Hear from Survivors at Hearing on Anti-LGBTQI+ Violence and Extremism
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Ro Khanna, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, released a new memo and documents showing how the fossil fuel industry engages in “greenwashing” to obscure its massive long-term investments in fossil fuels and failure to meaningfully reduce emissions.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and Oversight Republicans sent letters to the Chief Executive Officer of Meta Platforms, Inc., Mark Zuckerberg, and Twitter Owner, Elon Musk, requesting documents and communications to assist with the investigation into U.S. government officials’ efforts to suppress free speech on social media platforms.
By State Newswire | Dec 28, 2022
News Release: The United States congratulates the people of Nepal on a successful democratic election and Pushpa Kamal Dahal and coalition partners on their formation of a new government. We are proud to have robust and longstanding ties with Nepal and will continue to stand with the Government of Nepal to promote ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A St. Louis, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute kilogram-quantities of heroin in the Springfield, Mo., area.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) are pressing senior Biden Administration officials, the president of EcoHealth Alliance, and several virologists who authored “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” for information necessary to the Oversight Committee’s investigation into COVID origins and, for the first time, outlined the names of 40 individuals with whom the Committee will be requesting transcribed interviews.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) opened today’s hearing by emphasizing that threats to our democracy and Constitution have been echoed so frequently that it has lost its impact and become a tool used to advance a political agenda.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 28, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a three page notice on Dec. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 28, 2022
News Release: As required by today’s Supreme Court order, the Title 42 public health order will remain in effect and individuals who attempt to enter the United States unlawfully will continue to be expelled to Mexico or their home country.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 28, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Dec. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Dec 28, 2022
Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement on Democrats’ oil and gas report:
