News from February 2022
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - FEMA is proposing updates to the Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) for Prince Edward County, Virginia. Community partners are invited to participate in a 90-day appeal and comment period.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Representative David McKinley (R-WV) announced West Virginia will receive $140,751,000 in Fiscal Year 2022 to reclaim abandoned mine lands (AML).
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the Impact of Continuing Resolutions on the Department of Defense and Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU - Robert Darnell Beal, 41, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced in federal court on February 7, 2022, by United States District Judge Derrick K. Watson to 180 months imprisonment for his role in a conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. On June 25, 2021, Beal was found guilty of conspiring to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl after a five-day jury trial in Honolulu.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
Bureau of Land Management Alaska Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands grant opened on Feb. 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An Akron man who participated in a multi-state methamphetamine conspiracy was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison. Dennis Deire Mosely, Jr., 35, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Peter R. Kiwitt, 63, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of sex trafficking by coercion, was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison and 15 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: John Muir National Historic Site is seeking applicants for the 2022 Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) summer program to work and learn alongside National Park Service (NPS) rangers. YCC is a paid outdoor work program that provides a safe, educational, and meaningful experience for young adults of all backgrounds and interests.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Dear Commissioner Rettig: I write to urge the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to reverse its recently announced implementation of facial recognition screening software for Americans who wish to access their historical tax documents online. The IRS does not use facial recognition for tax filing or to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for cyberstalking his federal probation officer.
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
U.S. Embassy Small Grants Program 2022 (SGP) grant opened on Feb. 7.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Today, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the state of the U.S. territories – American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Committee, highlighted efforts Congress took to ensure the territories were included in the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK - The Drug Enforcement Administration announced a new initiative, Operation Overdrive, aimed at combatting the rising rates of drug-related violent crime and overdose deaths plaguing American communities. Last fall, DEA initiated a data-driven approach using national crime statistics and CDC...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Four men charged with federal firearms offenses in late 2020 and 2021 have been sentenced to prison by U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) issued the following statement on House passage of the COMPETES Act, which includes provisions that tackle illegal fishing and slave labor in the seafood supply chain, expand renewable energy, address the illegal wildlife trade, bolster marine science and strengthen protection of marine life on the high seas.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement, as prepared, on the House floor in support of H.R. 4445, the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4445, the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021, by a bipartisan vote of 335-97.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, construction company and one of its owners entered into a settlement agreement with the United States in which they admitted violating the False Claims Act by taking a loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to which the company was not entitled, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
English Acquisition for Guatemalan Leaders and Entrepreneurial Skills (EAGLES) grant opened on Feb. 7.
By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during a Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties hearing on "Examining the History and Importance of 'Lift Every Voice and Sing':"
