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News from June 2022


House and Senate Leaders Release Bipartisan Discussion Draft of Comprehensive Data Privacy Bill

House and Senate Leaders Release Bipartisan Discussion Draft of Comprehensive Data Privacy Bill


Comer Expresses Serious Concerns After DOJ Recommends the Supreme Court Not Review the Monsanto Company v. Hardeman Case

“The Administration’s position puts in jeopardy the future use of glyphosate as a pesticide and threatens the currently unstable American food supply.”


FACT CHECK: Democrats’ Bidenflation Denial

President Biden does not have a plan to fight inflation and is in denial about how his policies have sabotaged our recovery and would make matters worse.


Memorial Day BBQ Prices Setting Fire to Americans’ Budgets

At least 84 percent of Americans celebrating expect inflation to impact their holiday spending


Finance Committee Republicans Raise Questions, Concerns with Disturbing IRS Document Destruction

Senate Finance Committee Republicans, led by Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), wrote to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Chuck Rettig raising concerns and questions about the IRS’s destruction of an estimated 30 million paper-filed documents in March 2021 reportedly due to a backlog in processing paper documents.


House and Senate Leaders Release Bipartisan Discussion Draft of Comprehensive Data Privacy Bill

Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone (D-NJ), and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS) today released a discussion draft of a comprehensive national data privacy and data security framework. The draft legislation is the first comprehensive privacy proposal to gain bipartisan, bicameral support.


Pallone Blasts GOP ‘Plan’ to Address Energy and Climate Crises

Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. released the following statement today in response to Republicans’ latest “plan” to address climate and energy issues


Canada Border Services Agency and U.S. Department of Commerce renew focus on keeping sensitive technologies and goods out of Russian hands

The U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) and the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) play an important role in the coordinated response to Russian aggression in Ukraine.


U.S. Department of Energy Announces $8 Million for Technologies to Increase Hydropower Flexibility

Selected Projects Will Strengthen Hydropower’s Ability to Support an Electric Grid with More Variable Renewable Energy Resources


Essex County Man Convicted of Knifepoint Robbery

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal jury convicted an Essex County, New Jersey, man for his role in the knifepoint robbery of a Harrison, New Jersey, taxi company, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.


Folk Music at National Park’s Chelberg Farm

News Release: Relax on the front lawn of the historic Chellberg Farm for an evening of music on Sunday, June 12 and June 26, from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The Save the Tunes Council is a group of local musicians devoted to preserving and passing on folk songs using a variety of traditional musical instruments including...


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Will Thompson announced today that a Nicholas County woman has been charged with a federal gun crime related to the June 3, 2022, shooting that left one Nicholas County sheriff’s deputy dead and another wounded.


Raimondo: U.S. 'offers destinations for international travelers like no other'

A novel National Travel and Tourism Strategy announced by Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo aims to attract 90 million international visitors to the United States annually.


DOE Invests $6 Million in Geothermal Heating and Cooling Technologies at Federal Facilities

New Technical Assistance Capacity Will Help Federal Government Lead by Example in Demonstrating Benefits and Potential of Decarbonizing Buildings with Geothermal Energy


Education and Labor Committee and the bills it addressed on June 8

There was activity on three bills related to the Education and Labor Committee on June 8.


Price: U.S. 'has seen the PRC attempt to put forward a series of shadowy, opaque deals'

Work has begun on the final upgrade of Cambodia's biggest naval base, and its funding by China has raised concerns by the United States over Cambodia's deepening ties with China.


Florida Man Known As “The Monkey Whisperer” Sentenced For Trafficking Protected Primates

News Release: Tampa, Florida -U.S. District Judge William F. Jung has sentenced Jimmy Wayne Hammonds, aka “the Monkey Whisperer" (58, Parrish), to five years’ probation, to include eight months home confinement, for one count of conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act and three counts of violating the Endangered Species...


Deputy Secretary McKeon’s Meeting with German State Secretary Brantner

Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.



News Release: TULELAKE, California- Work to repave 18 miles of the road through Lava Beds is set to begin the week of June 13, 2022. The contractor plans to start pulverizing and paving north of the Entrance Station working their way to Valentine cave. Road work will take place Mondays - Fridays between 6:00am and 6:00pm, between now and can continue till September 2023. Visitors should expect up to 30-minute delays.