News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 27 year-old Katy resident and former football star at both Cinco Ranch High School and Rice University has been ordered to federal prison for distributing a deadly synthetic opioid, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, couple was charged today with forced labor and other crimes involving two undocumented individuals, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger and Civil Rights Division Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced two funding opportunities, totaling $6.1 million, for student training and research on remediating legacy pollution from coal-based electricity generation and using carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) to generate low-carbon...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered the following remarks in the Health Subcommittee Hearing on biomedical research.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on new bipartisan draft legislation seeking to promote competition, innovation, national security, the interests of consumers, and American leadership in the thriving commercial satellite communications industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Gulfport man pleaded guilty to being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Dupree, South Dakota man convicted of Striking, Bearing, or Wounding was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2022, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: EL PASO - An El Paso man was sentenced today to a total of 12 months of confinement for filing false personal tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.2 million American Rescue Plan Economic Adjustment Assistance grant to the Keshet Dance Company, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to renovate the Keshet Ideas and Innovation Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Mokhtari (619) 546-8402.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Rayshawn Boyce, 26, of Albuquerque, made an initial appearance in federal court today facing charges of robbery of a postal employee, theft or receipt of stolen or reproduced keys or locks, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Boyce will remain in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for Feb. 22.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a GOP Leadership press conference today, E&C Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Congressman Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Congressman Buddy Carter (R-GA) delivered remarks about stopping the scourge of fentanyl and the HALT Fentanyl Act.
By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
Journalism Capacity Building in Tunisia grant opened on Feb. 17.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement regarding the Biden administration’s request for $30 billion.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent letters to National Institute of Allergy...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and more than 70 House Republicans urged President Biden and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra to accept that COVID-19 has become endemic, recognize that current heavy-handed government interventions are doing more harm than good, and immediately begin the process to unwind the Public Health Emergency so our country can get back to normal.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today at a hearing to examine the gaps in America’s biosecurity preparedness, expert witnesses agreed with U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, that there is currently too much fragmentation and not enough...
