News from July 2022
By DOL Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An administrative law judge has dismissed a Minnesota company’s notice of contest and affirmed the U.S. Department of Labor finding that the employer violated a federal program that allows foreign, non-agricultural workers with H-2B visas to temporarily work in the U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Thursday, designated as “Great American Outdoors Day,” the Department of the Interior will celebrate the two-year anniversary of the signing of the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA). The law, which passed with strong bipartisan support, is the single largest investment in public lands in U.S. history and provides funding for much-needed maintenance of infrastructure in our national parks, public lands and Bureau of Indian Education-funded schools.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a strategic partnership between the Department’s Center for Countering Human Trafficking (CCHT) and international non-governmental organization (NGO) Liberty Shared to enhance the Department’s ability to investigate forced labor in the supply chain.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: Physical loss loans can help producers repair or replace damaged or destroyed physical property essential to the success of the agricultural operation, including livestock losses. Examples of property commonly affected include essential farm buildings, fixtures to real estate, equipment, livestock, perennial crops, fruit and nut bearing trees and harvested or stored crops and hay.
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs Hayashi Yoshimasa in Washington, DC to reaffirm the vital importance of the U.S.-Japan Alliance in promoting peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific ...
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) and Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-TX), and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID) today sent a letter to President Biden urging his Administration to strongly...
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and Japan on the occasion of the inaugural ministerial meeting of the U.S.-Japan Economic Policy Consultative Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) issued the below statement following the release of the personal consumption expenditures price index (PCE), which jumped to 6.8 percent in June, up from 6.3 percent in May.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: To continue making smartphones, laptops, and other devices more powerful and energy efficient, industry is intensely focused on identifying promising next-generation designs and materials for the principal building blocks of modern electronics: the tiny electrical on-off switches known as field-effect...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: A Massachusetts man was arrested today in Falmouth, Massachusetts for allegedly sending a communication containing a bomb threat to an election official in the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Worker and Family Support Subcommittee Chairman Danny K. Davis (D-IL) released the following statement after the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a letter to states that they should exercise their discretion and refrain from collecting child support from very low-income parents during a time of family crisis...
By Tamara Browning | Jul 30, 2022
A design team at Purdue University won first place in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s $5 million Inclusive Design Challenge for its development of an automated vehicle that accommodates people who have physical and sensory disabilities.
By Bob Pepalis | Jul 30, 2022
Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced his plans to speak with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to facilitate the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - Una investigación del Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. ha recuperado $178,358 en salarios por horas extras atrasados para 27 trabajadores de una empresa de soldadura y fabricación de Houston que los clasificaba erróneamente como contratistas independientes y les negaba sus salarios y beneficios completos.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: Jason Joey Berry, 39, of Montreal, Canada, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and import it into the United States, resulting in serious bodily injury and death. The criminal conspiracy involved distributing fentanyl and other similar substances from Canada and China into the United States, resulting in 15 overdoses, four of which were fatal.
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs Michele J. Sison will travel to India, Bangladesh, and Kuwait August 2-10 for consultations on a range of U.S. multilateral priorities, including combating food insecurity, advancing global health, addressing human rights and humanitarian ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Nancy Mace, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, issued the following statements to mark National Whistleblower Appreciation Day, commemorated on July 30, 2022.
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Cambodia, the Philippines, South Africa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda August 2-12, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: Gregory Evans, 50, a former Captain with the Madison County Detention Center, in Richmond, Kentucky, was sentenced to two years in federal prison, and three years of supervised release. Evans previously pleaded guilty to using unreasonable force against a detainee, thereby violating the detainee’s civil rights.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) and Co-Chair of the Senate Recycling Caucus; Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee, led the Senate to pass the Recycling and Composting Accountability Act and the Recycling Infrastructure and Accessibility Act by unanimous consent.
