News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX), Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Vern Buchanan (R-FL) and 74 Republicans in the House sent the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra a letter urging him to “to abandon and re-propose the Nation Coverage Determination (NCD) to provide for reasonable access to FDA-approved [Alzheimer’s] treatments for a broader population of Medicare beneficiaries, including Americans suffering from other neurological diseases and medical conditions such as Down Syndrome.”
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2022
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 Press release submission | Feb 9, 2022
Today, House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in the Health Subcommittee Hearing on biomedical research.
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2022
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a proposed rule seeking public comment on the need to extend the deadline up to but no longer than November 4, 2024 for states, territories, tribes and federal agencies with existing certification plans to comply with the updated federal standards under the 2017 Certification of Pesticide Applicators rule.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management’s Southwest District Resource Advisory Council will attend a field trip to discuss travel management matters at Jumbo Mountain on March 2, then a meeting on March 3 at the Uncompahgre Field Office, 2465 S. Townsend Ave. Montrose, CO 81401 from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today delivered the following remarks on the House Floor in support of H.R.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The House today passed on a bipartisan 272 to 162 vote, H.R. 6617, the Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today delivered the following remarks to the House Rules Committee in support of H.R.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today introduced the short-term Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act, which continues federal government funding through March 11 to provide time to complete bipartisan, bicameral negotiations on fiscal year 2022 appropriations legislation.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The Department of the Interior today announced nearly $725 million in Fiscal Year 22 funding is available to 22 states and the Navajo Nation to create good-paying union jobs and catalyze economic opportunity by reclaiming abandoned mine lands (AML) as part of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
Building on existing initiatives to study and assess impacts of offshore wind energy development on the North Atlantic right whale, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is fostering multiple federal and state partnerships that will inform and strengthen protections for this endangered species.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The National Park Service (NPS) today announced the extension of the public comment period on an initial set of concepts that could guide the redevelopment of Caneel Bay at Virgin Islands National Park.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
Our hearing today is on the challenges taxpayers face in the 2022 filing season. We are fortunate to have with us the National Taxpayer Advocate, Erin Collins, as our sole witness. This is Ms. Collins’ first appearance before the Subcommittee. I welcome her warmly.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The National Park Service is requesting assistance in identifying those responsible for poaching trees at Lelekea Beach in the Kῑpahulu District of Haleakalā National Park.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
Beginning as early as February 10 through the middle of March, fire personnel at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park will be burning piles of cut wood and other vegetation in the Big Stump area of Grant Grove and the Lodgepole area of Giant Forest.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The National Park Service and National Desert Storm War Memorial Association, in cooperation with the National Capital Planning Commission, are seeking public comment on the National Desert Storm and Desert Shield Memorial Environmental Assessment.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
OJJDP's Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force Program highlights Safer Internet Day on February 8, 2022.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The spring Eastern wild turkey hunt will take place in Massachusetts starting April 25.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management is seeking nominations for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Advisory Committees to fill existing and upcoming vacancies.
By Press release submission | Feb 8, 2022
According to court documents and statements made during the hearing, Nicholas Wilds, 38, admitted that he distributed child pornography using Kik, an online messaging application.
