News from July 2022
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul delivered the following opening statement at a full committee hearing on U.S. Economic Policy Response to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine with Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, Bureau of Industry and Security.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: Measuring the numbers and properties of cells moving in a stream - a process called flow cytometry - is critically important to diagnostic medicine, pharmaceutical research and biomedical science. Now researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have devised a way to make unprecedented improvements in the technique.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Tennessee physician yesterday in the Middle District of Tennessee for unlawfully distributing opioids from his Smyrna clinic.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Homeland Security Committee on July 20.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: SW Oregon - As the weather continues to trend towards warming and drying, officials with the Bureau of Land Management Medford District, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest and Oregon Department of Forestry Southwest Oregon District are prohibiting campfire use on those lands located within the boundaries of the Wild section of the Rogue National Wild and Scenic River. The Wild section flows from Grave Creek to the mouth of Watson Creek.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation today released its Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) on airline operational data compiled for the month of May 2022 for on-time performance, consumer complaints received, mishandled baggage, and mishandled wheelchairs and scooters. There was a 15% decline in complaints against airlines from April to May, however complaints are still 200 percent above pre-pandemic levels.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS, MT - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has certified Team Inc., which performs nondestructive testing at the Phillips 66 Refinery in Billings, as a "Star" employer in the agency's Voluntary Protection Programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.8 million grant to Miami Dade College, Miami, Florida, to fund the renovation of an existing campus building to house the new Construction Trade Institute. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), full Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) released the following joint statement today after Committee members voted to pass H.R. 8152, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) by a vote of 53-2...
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Armed Services Committee on July 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: A Florida man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the IRS in connection with his ownership and operation of illegal gambling businesses in Canton.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on July 20.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON—On June 17, Acting Assistant Secretary Gary Rasicot of the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office (CWMD) traveled to Columbus, Ohio, for a series of meetings with state and local leaders on the Ohio BioWatch Program, and yesterday, CWMD’s Associate ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
Release: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a local man from carrying his loaded handgun onto a flight at Westchester County Airport on Wednesday, July 20. The.38 caliber revolver was loaded with five bullets.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on July 22.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), expressing concern over the rapidly increasing spread of the monkeypox virus (MPV) across the United...
By State Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis. Secretary Blinken and Foreign Minister Landsbergis discussed our shared commitment to support Ukraine and hold Russia to account for its unjustified war.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) today announced the selection of Mark Foust as regional director for the South Atlantic-Gulf - America’s most visited NPS region, effective August 14. Foust previously supported the region as incident commander in response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria in South Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
News Release: A California man was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and 36 months of supervised release for renovating two apartment complexes in violation of federal Clean Air Act regulations intended to prevent human exposure to toxic airborne asbestos fibers.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2022
Notice of Intent to Issue Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-FOA-0002813, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Building Energy Codes (Section 40511): Resilient and Efficient Codes Implementation (RECI) grant opened on July 21.
