News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a legislative hearing on Tuesday, March 1, at 10:30 a.m. (EST) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, "Holding Big Tech Accountable: Legislation to Protect Online Users."
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today commending the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) issuance of policies to incorporate climate change, landowner protections, and environmental justice considerations in the natural gas certification process:
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “Americans in Need: Responding to the National Mental Health Crisis:”
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Chairman Touts Historic $65 Billion Broadband Investment Included in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
By Andy Nghiem | Feb 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of State has denounced the recent attack on the Hasakah Provincial Internal Security Forces detention center.
By Timothy Stuckey | Feb 22, 2022
The Biden administration has recently renewed sanctions waivers for Iran, allowing international nuclear cooperation projects to proceed while indirect U.S.-Iranian negotiations to revive the 2015 nuclear deal near their conclusion
By Savannah Howe | Feb 22, 2022
Two U.S. Department of State (DOS) officials recently visited Estonia for the third Global Conference for Media Freedom.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
The Federal Aviation Administration has opened the application process for airports to submit projects for the first $1 billion of the Airport Terminal Program funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the availability of $8.75 million in Fiscal Year 2022 competitive grant funding to support transit services for Tribal communities and Alaska Native villages in rural areas.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Today, nearly one year after the House’s passage of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) highlighted the package’s inclusion of transformative tax credits for families and workers.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
According to a new study, blanket student loan forgiveness is a handout to wealthy student loan borrowers while doing nothing to help address the underlying issues around college costs.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
Guest workers often travel hundreds, if not thousands of miles from their native countries to the U.S. to perform seasonal work, much of it in the agricultural industry.
By Press release submission | Feb 22, 2022
The operator of seven Fort Wayne area restaurants shortchanged 17 of its managers when the salary it paid was determined to be insufficient to relieve the employer of its overtime obligations.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Shanna M. Durham, P.E., is the Bureau of Reclamation's Engineer of the Year. Durham is a senior mechanical engineer in Reclamation's Technical Service Center in Denver, Colorado.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
Release: More information about Saint Lucia is available on the Saint Lucia page and from other Department of State publications and sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a three page proposed rule on Feb. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 22, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Feb. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
