News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 12, 2022
U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Susan Collins (R-ME), a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation that would strengthen requirements for foreign manufacturers of medical products that are distributed in the United States to register with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
By Press release submission | Jan 12, 2022
Budget certainty is essential to the entire federal government, especially for our national security. Last year, House and Senate Democrats advanced legislation to fund the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2022 – with increases over last year’s funding.
By Press release submission | Jan 12, 2022
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Security of the Capitol Campus since the Attack of January 6, 2021
By Press release submission | Jan 12, 2022
Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH-13), Chair of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Security of the Capitol Campus since the Attack of January 6, 2021
By Press release submission | Jan 12, 2022
On behalf of the United States of America, I join the people of Sudan in commemorating 66 years of independence.
By Andy Nghiem | Jan 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Legacy Management's (LM) Education, Communication, History, and Outreach (ECHO) supervisor David Von Behren believes in both preservation and perseverance.
By Laurie A. Luebbert | Jan 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently created five new regional positions for the department’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Rural Development (RD) to aid in administering operations and fostering relationships with stakeholders.
By Trina Thomas | Jan 11, 2022
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Air & Marine Operations (AMO) recently accepted delivery on the last of 52 coastal interceptors meant to replace vessels in its Midnight Express fleet, providing agents with overall technological and performance improvements.
By Trina Thomas | Jan 11, 2022
U.S. Border Patrol agents recently arrested two previously convicted sex offenders illegally entering the United States in the Del Rio Sector of Texas, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection press release said.
By Bob Martin | Jan 11, 2022
The deputy administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently received the prestigious Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive for his past and ongoing achievements on behalf of the United States.
By Karen Kidd | Jan 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) recently refinanced a $99.6 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan provided to Bellevue, Washington's ongoing BelRed Improvement project, allowing the city to take advantage of lower interest rates.
By Steven Hughes | Jan 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) recently highlighted its effort to help low-income mothers feed their children with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -Jason Chandler Mapp, 41, of Rogers, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court on Jan. 10 to enticement of a minor. Mapp will remain in custody pending sentencing, which has not been scheduled.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing on the federal response to the continuing surge of the COVID-19 Omicron variant across the country, with members of the Biden Administration COVID response...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: BISMARCK - United States Attorney Nicholas W. Chase announced that U.S. District Court Judge Daniel M. Traynor sentenced Douglas James Schneider, Age 51 of Rhame, ND, to life in Federal Prison for the offense of Transportation of a Minor, 18 U.S.C. 2423(a). Judge Traynor also sentence Schneider to 10 years supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $19,215.
By George Willis | Jan 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy is using $20 billion of President Joe Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to fund a new office tasked with going out and demonstrating clean-energy technologies to regional economies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina today commemorates National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, as part of the 11th annual National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, and affirms its continued commitment to work with federal, state, and local partners in combatting human trafficking in all its forms.
By John Suayan | Jan 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) does not expect to purchase or sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2021 due to the unlikelihood of government purchase in lieu of loan repayments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Helena man admitted to an ammunitions crime today after he was accused of assisting a Helena pawn shop in the sale of 88 pounds of stolen gunpowder, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
