News published on Federal Newswire in July 2022

News from July 2022


Chair DeLauro Floor Remarks on Six-Bill Appropriations Minibus

Release: Financial Services and General Government Chairman Mike Quigley (D-IL-05) today delivered the following remarks to the House Rules Committee in support of an appropriate rule for the House to consider, a minibus of six fiscal year 2023 appropriations bills.



News Release: House Energy and Commerce Republicans submitted an amendment to an annual energy spending bill to prevent President Joe Biden from jeopardizing America’s energy and national security by selling oil from America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) to the Chinese Communist Party.


News Release: VIENNA - For more than two decades, EM has provided technical leadership to the U.S. government’s interagency working group implementing the Joint Convention, an international treaty on the safety of spent fuel management and radioactive waste management. The treaty, adopted in 1997, marked its 25th anniversary this year.


News Release: CONCORD - Wilgfrido Valnodis Arias-Mejia, 46, a citizen of the Dominican Republic most recently residing in Manchester, was sentenced today to 91 months in federal prison for conspiring to sell fentanyl and other substances around the Manchester area, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.


What releases are upcoming from the Indian Affairs Bureau on July 20

There is one release scheduled to be published on July 20.




How politicians on Homeland Security Committee dealt with bills on July 18

There was activity on one bill related to the Homeland Security Committee on July 18.


News Release: Senate Introduces Companion to “Chase COVID Unemployment Fraud Act".


Finance Committee to Hold Hearing on Affordable Housing Tax Incentives

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will convene a hearing on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, to examine the role of tax incentives in affordable housing. The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.


Muskegon Man Charged With Drug Trafficking, Firearms Offenses

News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten announced today that Saul Douglas Briggs, a/k/a “76 Chain," a/k/a “Chain," a 32 year-old resident of Muskegon, Michigan, has been indicted on multiple drug trafficking charges, including conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine, as well as possession of controlled substances with the intent to distribute them. Briggs is also charged with illegal firearms possession and maintaining a drug house.


Department of the Interior Announces Start of Historic Rehabilitation of George Washington Memorial Parkway

News Release: WASHINGTON - National Park Service (NPS) Director Chuck Sams, Federal Highway Administration Associate Administrator for Federal Lands Tim Hess, and federal and local elected leaders today participated in a ceremonial groundbreaking for the rehabilitation of the northern section of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. The approximately $161 million project is one of the largest infrastructure investments funded by the Great American Outdoors Act.


House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Committee and the bills it addressed on July 18

There was activity on two bills related to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Committee on July 18.


Proposed Rule for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Management Review: Blueprint for Restoration discussed on July 18 by Commerce Department

The US Commerce Department published a one page proposed rule on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) released operational statistics showing that with three months left in the fiscal year, 2022 has already broken the record for the highest number of border encounters which makes it clear that this administration’s border crisis will soon be a catastrophe...


Nanomagnets Can Choose a Wine, and Could Slake AI’s Thirst for Energy

News Release: Human brains process loads of information. When wine aficionados taste a new wine, neural networks in their brains process an array of data from each sip. Synapses in their neurons fire, weighing the importance of each bit of data - acidity, fruitiness, bitterness - before passing it along to the next layer of neurons in the network. As information flows, the brain parses out the type of wine.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, and Enfield Police Chief Alaric Fox today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a five-count indictment charging the following five men with narcotics trafficking offenses...


Notice of Temporary Closure on Public Lands in Maricopa County, AZ discussed on July 18 by Interior Department

The US Interior Department published a one page notice on July 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Man arrested by police after TSA detects loaded gun at New York Stewart International Airport

Release: NEWBURGH, N.Y. A Florida man was arrested by police after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented him from carrying a loaded handgun onto his flight at New York Stewart International Airport on Sunday, July 17. The handgun was loaded with seven bullets including one in the chamber.