News from June 2022
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
Release: DEPARTMENT. AFGHANISTAN. VENEZUELA. DEPARTMENT/AFGHANISTAN. UKRAINE/RUSSIA/REGION. SOUTH KOREA/REGION/DEPARTMENT/NATO. DEPARTMENT/G-20/INDONESIA/UKRAINE/RUSSIA/REGION. VENEZUELA. RUSSIA. AFRICA/REGION.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2023 Homeland Security and Financial Services and General Government appropriations bills.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Elko, Nev. - The Elko District Division of Fire and Aviation Management is pleased to announce that two Type 4 wildland fire engines (E-1440 and E-1449), are being transferred to the Elko County Fire Protection District. The engines included a basic stocking of firefighting equipment, tools, a mobile...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Jason L. Bates, 51, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Brian C. Buescher to 84 months’ imprisonment for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and 37 months for Unlawful User of a Controlled ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
There was activity on nine bills related to the Ways and Means Committee on June 22.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entered into a stipulation agreement with Nevada Livestock Marketing LLC. (Nevada) of Fallon, Nev., on April 3, 2022, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act. Under the terms of the stipulation agreement, Nevada waived its right to a hearing and paid a penalty of $4,000.
By Karen Kidd | Jun 23, 2022
The bipartisan Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act became effective earlier this week and one of its sponsors, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, wasted no time pointing out which companies will be most strung by the legislation
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: A motocross instructor who traveled the country building motocross tracks and mentoring children was indicted yesterday for multiple child exploitation offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Ohio under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). LFPA funding will enable Ohio to procure foods from local underserved producers and distribute those products to underserved, food insecure communities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Last week, Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and the Ways and Means Committee heard directly from working women on the burnout they are experiencing at the hands of an economy that doesn’t recognize their responsibilities outside of work.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Legislative Hearing to Strengthen Energy Infrastructure, Efficiency, and Financing:"
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Industrial Decarbonization through Electrification of Process Heating grant opened on June 23.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Work is underway by the National Park Service (NPS) to repair, rehabilitate, and stabilize 400 linear feet of historic rock wall around the Carver Family Cemetery at George Washington Carver National Monument. The $272,000 project is financed by the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) Legacy Restoration Fund. Work is expected to be completed by the end of July.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
There was activity on seven bills related to the Judiciary Committee on June 22.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: The Douglas Forest Protective Association (DFPA), the Umpqua National Forest, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Roseburg District have announced that the 2022 fire season will officially begin Friday, June 24th at 12:01 AM. All private, county, state, and Bureau of Indian Affairs lands within the...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott delivered the following statement after today's hearing titled “A 2022 Review of the Farm Bill: Dairy Provisions."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Devin J. Strack, 24, of Fremont, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, as a felon in possession of a firearm. United States District Court Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Strack to 37 months’ imprisonment. Following his release, Strack will begin a 3-year term of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on President Biden’s expected announcement about a federal gas tax delay on Wednesday.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5855, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health (ARPA-H) Act.
