News published on Federal Newswire in July 2022

News from July 2022


McCaul Raises Questions on U.S. Assistance to Demobilized FARC Combatants

News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul pressed the Biden administration to clarify what specific foreign assistance the U.S. intends to provide demobilized FARC combatants.



The US Energy Department published a one page notice on July 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Combined Notice of Filings #1 discussed on July 26 by Energy Department

The US Energy Department published a two page notice on July 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million grant to Outagamie County, Wisconsin, for road and utility infrastructure upgrades at the Appleton Aviation Business Park. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.


Rubio slams corporate interests for gutting CHIPS protection, research safeguards

America’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies have repeatedly warned lawmakers about the vast threat of Chinese Communist Party espionage and theft.


Storytelling Day Event 2022

News Release: Sixth Annual Storytelling Day Event. George Washington Carver National Monument is pleased to host the 6th annual “Storytelling Day" event on Saturday Aug. 27, 2022, from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. This event celebrates the National Park Service’s 106th birthday (Aug. 25, 2022) and focuses on stories...


Scalise, Comer, Stefanik Press Hochul for Transparency on Nursing Home COVID Deaths

News Release: WASHINGTON-Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) today called on New York Governor Kathleen Hochul to provide full and complete data about former Governor Andrew Cuomo’s deadly order sending COVID-positive patients to nursing homes.


News Release: ORLANDO – On July 25, 2022, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas participated in a roundtable meeting with senior executives, directors, and security officials from entertainment venues, sports teams and leagues, colleges and universities, local chambers of commerce, law enforcement, ...


News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Land Management West Desert District, Utah Division of Forestry, Fire & State Lands and Tooele County have reopened public lands in the vicinity of the Jacob City Fire following 100% containment of the fire. Fire crews will patrol and monitor the area over the next couple of days and the public is advised to use caution when visiting reopened public lands.


Assistant Secretary Medina’s Travel to Fiji

Release: Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Monica Medina is traveling to Suva, Fiji, July 11-13. Assistant Secretary Medina will meet with regional leaders, gathering in Fiji to attend the Pacific Islands Forum, and discuss plastic pollution; illegal,...


Release: Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Monica Medina will travel to Bar Harbor, Maine, USA from July 26 - 28 to participate in the 2022 College of the Atlantic Summer Institute. Assistant Secretary Medina will deliver remarks on July 28 during the...


U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $914,465 in American Rescue Plan Funds to Support Workforce Development in Pittsfield, Massachusetts

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $914,465 grant to Berkshire Innovation Center, Inc., Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to help establish the Berkshire Innovation Center Manufacturing Academy. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.


Agriculture Committee and the bills it addressed on July 26

There was activity on two bills related to the Agriculture Committee on July 26.



News Release: Helena, Mont. - The Mobile Disaster Recovery Center (MDRC) at Gardiner High School in Park County will permanently close at 6 p.m. on Friday, July 29. Additionally, the Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) located at Absarokee Elementary School Gymnasium in Stillwater County will permanently close at 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 30.


All-Atlantic Ocean Research and Innovation Alliance Ministerial

Release: Good morning. I’m pleased to be joined by my esteemed colleagues. Thank you so much for being here today.


McCaul, Meeks, Risch, Menendez Statement on Tunisia’s Constitutional Referendum

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID), and Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ), today released the below statement following yesterday’s referendum on a new Tunisian constitution...


US Department of Labor finds Virginia tech, engineering contractor underpaid 63 workers $268K in pay, benefits on government-funded project

News Release: HAVELOCK, NC - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $268,014 in back wages for 63 workers of a Reston, Virginia, technical and engineering contractor who denied them a portion of their wages and benefits while they worked on a Department of Defense project in Havelock.


DOE-GFO grant application closes on Aug. 25

Notice of Intent to issue Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0002792, "Funding Opportunity in Support of the Hydrogen Shot and a University Research Consortium on Grid Resilience.; grant opened on July 27.