News from February 2022
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Tom Carper (D-DE) applauded the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s passage of their bipartisan Multinational Species Conservation Funds...
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: QUESTION: Joining me now is the Secretary of State. Secretary Blinken, welcome back to Meet the Press, sir.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Feb. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: A federal district court in Newark, New Jersey, unsealed an indictment today charging the owner of a network of health care and rehabilitation facilities with willfully failing to withhold and pay over employment taxes on behalf of his employees, tax evasion, and failing to file benefit plan reports.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) partnered with multiple state and federal law enforcement agencies under the FBI’s Southern Arizona Violent Crime and Gang Task Force (SAVCGTF) to executed 11 search warrants throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), today announced that the government will collect $1.5 million in civil penalties and $2 million in consumer redress from online contact lens company Vision Path Inc., dba Hubble Contacts (Hubble), as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that Hubble violated the Fairness to Contact Lens Consumers Act and the FTC’s Contact Lens Rule.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: FOREIGN MINISTER LAVROV: (Via interpreter) State Secretary, colleagues, we’re very grateful to you for this proposal to hold talks in Geneva in the context of the work that was started on the security guarantees. When you made the phone call to me and proposed that we meet to achieve greater clarity ...
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: QUESTION: Joining me now to talk about all this is Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Thank you so much for joining me. Let’s start with that new British intelligence that the Russian Government is planning to install a pro-Russian leader in Ukraine. Does the U.S. agree with that view? SECRETARY BLINKEN: ...
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke by phone yesterday with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, and the OSCE Chair, represented by Polish Defense Minister ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Feb. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner - Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on Feb. 3.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: FOREIGN MINISTER BAERBOCK: (Via interpreter) Ladies and gentlemen, dear Tony, very warm welcome once again. And in an official manner, I warmly welcome you to Berlin.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Release: Thank you, your Excellency, members of the press, and honored guests for joining us.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
The House of Representatives section of the Congressional Record published “EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS, ETC.” on Jan. 25.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Ambassador Tracey Ann Jacobson, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Career Minister, will serve as Chargé d’Affaires, ad interim, at the Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ambassador Geeta Pasi plans to retire to pursue other opportunities.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers delivered the following remarks in the Health Subcommittee Hearing entitled “FDA User Fee Reauthorization: Ensuring Safe and Effective Drugs and Biologics."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: A Mississippi pharmacist was sentenced today to five years in prison in the Southern District of Mississippi for a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud TRICARE and private insurance companies by paying kickbacks to distributors for the referral of medically unnecessary prescriptions. The conduct resulted in more than $180 million in fraudulent billings, including more than $50 million paid by federal health care programs.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - With opioid-related overdoses linked to nearly 2,700 deaths in Maine between 2010 and 2019, and tens of thousands of Maine residents living with chronic addiction, opioid usage remains a serious health emergency there.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Charges include carjacking, firearms violations, and drug trafficking occurring in the area of Chicago and Franklin.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Tomorrow marks two years since U.S. Navy veteran Mark Frerichs was taken hostage. Mark is a civil engineer who was helping with construction projects for the benefit of the Afghan people when he was taken captive. Despite his innocence, he remains held hostage by the Taliban and its affiliates.
