News from February 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: Company will acquire wheelchair accessible shuttles and pay damages to complainant.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL ESTREMERA, 42, last residing in East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 138 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a fentanyl trafficking ring, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release that followed a prior federal conviction.

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
Senator Tom Carper, (D-Del.), Chairman of the U.S.

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led her Republican colleagues on the committee in a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan and Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Michael Connor.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: Walorski: Billions Lost to UI Fraud at Stake, So Why Won’t Democrats Act?.

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Secretary-General Guterres, for your remarks, as well as those of Secretary-General Zas of CSTO.

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
The United States joins consensus on this resolution and thanks Argentina for its facilitation.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
The United States is pleased to join consensus on this text today, and we thank South Africa for its facilitation of this resolution.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: Washington - As part of its commitment to ensuring fair and competitive markets for the livestock, meat and poultry industries, on Feb. 8, 2022, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Wheeler Livestock Auction Inc. (Wheeler Livestock) of Osceola, Mo., for...

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), released the following statement on the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) release of its critical minerals list for 2022.

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, published an op-ed in the Wheeling Intelligencer on the new investments coming to West Virginia to address abandoned mine lands and clean up orphaned oil and gas wells.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
Release: BOSTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is holding a recruiting event Saturday, February 26. The hiring event is designed to assist individuals interested in applying for a job as a Transportation Security Officer (TSO) at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS).

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: Today, Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement on the completion of a one-year assessment on the critical supply chains supporting the information and communications technology (ICT) industry. Directed by President ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
The US Interior Department published a three page rule on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
Today, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack asking the administration to take a meaningful step in addressing the climate crisis by increasing federal investments in biobased products.

By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. Since Foreign Minister Kuleba and I were in Munich just a few days ago, Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine and its rejection of international law and diplomacy have accelerated. Yesterday, President Putin recognized the so-called “independence” of the Donetsk ...

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced the creation of the bipartisan Senate FFA Caucus.

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing to consider the nominations of Christy Goldsmith Romero, Kristin N. Johnson, Summer Kristine Mersinger, and Caroline D. Pham each to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

By Press release submission | Feb 24, 2022
As a new fire year begins, our nation is preparing to respond to the increasingly severe wildfire activity we have observed in recent years