News from February 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: On Feb. 3, a federal court in the Southern District of Florida permanently enjoined two North Lauderdale tax return preparers and their business from preparing federal income tax returns or operating any tax return preparation business in the future. It also ordered the tax preparers to pay $353,000 in disgorgement to the United States.
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
The Senate section of the Congressional Record published “Iran (Executive Session)” on Feb. 3.

By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
FY 2022 Notice of Funding Opportunity for South Africa grant opened on Feb. 7.

By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
Release: Drilling Efficiency Demonstrations Will Set the Stage for Transferring Lab Technology to the Marketplace
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
Release: I want to thank the House of Representatives for passing the America COMPETES Act today. This bill is essential to our economy, our workers, and will unleash the next generation on innovation and scientific advancement in the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Today, following House’s passage of the America COMPETES Act to rebuild the domestic semiconductor manufacturing industry, strengthen supply chains, and invest in critical research, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo released the following statement: I want to thank the House of Representatives ...

By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
Fishing and spending time on boats is in her blood.

By DOL Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: MIRAMAR BEACH, FL - A federal investigation has recovered $47,088 for 30 employees from the operator of a Miramar Beach restaurant who denied them their rightfully earned overtime wages.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Joni Ernst (R-IA) applauded House passage of their bipartisan bill to encourage innovation in contracting and expand opportunities for small businesses to work with the federal...

By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I offer warm congratulations to the people of Sri Lanka on the 74th anniversary of your independence on February 4.

By Press release submission | Feb 7, 2022
The contiguous U.S. kicked off 2022 with its coolest January since 2014. However, the month still ranked nearly a degree warmer than average across the nation.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
The Daily Digest section of the Congressional Record published “Senate Committee Meetings” on Feb. 3.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS - The National Park Service (NPS), Big Bend National Park and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) El Paso Field Office, Alpine Resident Agency Office, is seeking information from the public about a missing Fort Stockton man and child who were last seen on Jan. 28, 2022.
By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: Counselor of the Department Derek Chollet will lead an interagency delegation to Sofia, Bucharest, and Brussels from February 7 to 11 to engage with our partners in Europe on a range of issues, and to consult with NATO Allies and the European Union partners on Russian aggression towards Ukraine. Counselor ...

By State Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I send my best wishes to the people of Aotearoa New Zealand as you commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on February 6.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: A federal jury in Texas yesterday convicted two members of the violent street and prison gang, Barrio Azteca, on all counts related to the murders of a U.S. Consulate employee, her husband, and the husband of another U.S. Consulate employee.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported sales of 507,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations. Of the total, 249,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2021/2022 marketing year and 258,000 metric tons is for delivery during the 2022/2023 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that Willie M. Burks III, 41, a former Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) lieutenant, was sentenced in federal court to nine years’ imprisonment, with two years of supervised release to follow. Burks was convicted by a federal jury on July 21, 2021, of failing to stop an officer under his command from assaulting an inmate at ADOC’s Elmore Correctional Facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2022
“REMEMBERING JOHN THOMAS LONG” was published on page H922 of the Congressional Record on Feb. 3.