News from July 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Fred Keller (R-Pa.) delivered remarks on the House floor in support of H.R. 7337, the Access for Veterans to Records Act, a bipartisan bill to alleviate the veterans’ records backlog at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC). More than two years ago, Oversight Committee...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
The Daily Digest section of the Congressional Record published “Senate Committee Meetings” on July 13.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - The leader of a robbery “rip crew" that targeted game rooms, human smugglers and drug traffickers was sentenced to 26 years in federal prison July 12 following an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Houston and the Houston Police Department (HPD).

By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
BIL: Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects (Section 41004(b)) grant opened on July 13.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: Keweenaw National Historical Park is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by late Keweenaw artist Alden Steck at the Calumet Visitor Center from mid-July to mid-August 2022. The Calumet Visitor Center is located at 98 Fifth Street in the Village of Calumet, Michigan. 2022 summer hours are 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Wednesday through Sunday.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on July 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to the Delaware Nation Economic Development Authority, LLC, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to renovate the Greentech Center facility and campus. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan’s Indigenous Communities program.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following remarks in a Rules Committee hearing today on H.R. 8296, the Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act, and H.R. 8297, the Loopholes for Child Traffickers Act.

By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R- MO) and Committee Republicans will hold a roundtable on Thursday with key industry stakeholders to discuss the inflation crisis’ impacts on the Nation’s infrastructure.

By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Environment and Public Works Committee on July 12.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans are examining the role of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations behind increasing risks of dangerous blackouts, which jeopardizes Americans’ safety and security. Americans are suffering enough from record high and unaffordable...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) St. Paul Field Office removed an unlawfully present noncitizen foreign fugitive July 13, wanted in Guatemala for murder.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
“TRIBUTE TO ROLAND J. BABIN“ was published in the Senate section on page S3268 on July 13
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: Today, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announced the recipients for the 69th Annual Attorney General’s Awards, recognizing Department of Justice employees and partners for extraordinary contributions to the enforcement of our nation’s laws. This year, 298 Justice Department employees received awards, while 54 non-department individuals are also being honored for their work.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau announced that the next round of data from the 2020 Island Areas Censuses will be released in October 2022. The new data will be released as a Demographic Profile and will provide the four U.S. Island Areas - American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands - with a set of basic demographic, social, economic and housing characteristics for each island area and limited, lower levels of geography.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: Akron, OH - The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) recently began investigating the whereabouts of Makenzie Carson (15), a missing juvenile. Carson had been reported missing to the ODNR after she couldn’t be located around her campsite at the Mosquito Creek State...

By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Energy and Commerce Committee on July 12.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on July 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2022
News Release: A Fort Worth man discovered with a Glock pistol equipped with a “switch" - a device that converts ordinary semiautomatic pistols into fully automatic machine guns - has been tried and convicted of a federal firearm crime, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.

By Timothy Stuckey | Jul 13, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted approximately $1 million in grant funding to help promote environmental justice in California.