News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: USAO-WY. United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that Criminal Chief Nicole Romine and Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan Coppom spoke at the Drug Information Opportunity Symposium on Feb. 16, 2022, at the Wyoming National Guard Joint Readiness Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Romine...
By Press release submission | Feb 23, 2022
With inflation having accelerated under the Biden Administration to 40-year highs, Americans face soaring prices across the board for everyday expenses.
By Press release submission | Feb 23, 2022
In light of high and accelerating inflation, Senate Finance Committee Republicans, led by Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), are asking the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) for detailed information on the harmful effects inflation has on the federal budget.
By Press release submission | Feb 23, 2022
U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) released the following statement after the January Producer Price Index (PPI) release showed persistently high producer prices:
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: “The burn is planned in an area where brush and trees have been thinned to reduce accumulations of fuels and remove hazards which leads to less intense fires in the treated area and provides firefighters a higher probability of containing future wildfires," said Elko District Fuels Manager Tyson Gripp.
By Press release submission | Feb 23, 2022
Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) of the House Natural Resources Committee and Chair James P. McGovern (D-Mass.) of the House Rules Committee today examined the ongoing injustice of food insecurity among Indigenous communities in the U.S. at a joint roundtable discussion titled Ending Hunger in America: Indigenous Nutrition and Food Systems.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
U.S. Embassy Amman PAS Annual Program Statement grant opened on Feb. 23.
By Press release submission | Feb 23, 2022
House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement after the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) launched the beta version of its Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool.
By Press release submission | Feb 23, 2022
Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement about a report issued by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) finding that former DOI Secretary Ryan Zinke, in pursuing a brewery as part of a larger development near his residential property in Whitefish, Mont., violated his ethics obligations, used federal resources for personal gain, and lied to ethics officials and the media.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: A federal jury found a Claremore man guilty Wednesday for sexually assaulting a woman in 2018, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Press release submission | Feb 23, 2022
Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup that included five Republican bills that passed with bipartisan support. Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement: "While it is unfortunate that this committee is still not meeting in-person, today we were able to pass productive Republican legislation that doesn't add fuel to the flames of President Biden's energy, supply chain, and numerous other crises.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: Sacramento, Calif. - Today, the Bureau of Reclamation announced initial 2022 water supply allocations for Central Valley Project contractors. Allocations are based on an estimate of water available for delivery to CVP water users and reflect current reservoir storages, precipitation, and snowpack in...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and House Armed Services Committee Lead Republican Mike Rogers (R-AL) released the following statement on the Biden administration’s decision to revoke waivers, thereby allowing sanctions to move forward on the Kremlin-controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Trevon Darnell Hopkins, 27, of Charlotte, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and two years of supervised release for illegal gun possession, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In October 2021, a federal jury convicted Hopkins of possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Feb 23, 2022
In celebration of Entrepreneurship Week, February 12 through February 19, the Office of Electricity (OE) is highlighting Brains4Drones, a woman-owned small business operating out of Plano, Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Feb. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2022
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Meadville, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years in prison and 15 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today. In addition, Troup was sentenced to two additional years in prison for violating federal supervised release on his 2008 case involving child sexual abuse material.
