News from June 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.4 million grant to Georgetown, South Carolina, for water treatment plant upgrades needed to stimulate business and job growth.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
There are four releases scheduled to be published on June 9.
By State Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
Recidivism Reduction and Community Engagement Program (R-CEP) grant opened on June 8.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), welcomed Mr. Jerimiah Rieman, executive director of the Wyoming County Commissioners Association (WCCA), to the committee.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), the Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing to examine rising ransomware attacks and the need for comprehensive data to deter these attacks. In his remarks, Portman...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Melisa Llosa, Inspector in Charge of the Phoenix Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), announced today that Xavier Zamora pleaded guilty to second degree murder of an employee of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOHN EDWARD JONES, age 42, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty to Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.9 million grant to the Instituto de Formación Democrática, San Juan, Puerto Rico, to support a recovery coordinator position and related staff to develop the framework for establishing the new Recovery Innovation Coordination and Center of Excellence. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3.7 million grant to the Riverfront Development Corporation, Memphis, Tennessee, for construction of the Tailout Trail, a new canopy boardwalk along the Mississippi River. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: Operational security managers are often the first line of defense against cyber and physical attacks that threaten the security of our nation's energy infrastructure. The work they do is essential to ensuring the systems we rely on every day for our power and fuel are safe and secure, but the fact of the matter that these critical workers face an ever-evolving and dynamic threat landscape, often with limited resources at their disposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Danielle Tooley, 37, of Batavia, NY, pleaded guilty to wire fraud before Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Agriculture Committee on June 7.
By State Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you very much. Well, good evening, everyone, and it is wonderful to be in Los Angeles, and particularly wonderful to be here in this extraordinary building. And I want to start by saying thank you, thank you, thank you to Arizona State’s Cronkite School of Journalism, to USC’s ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on June 9.
By Press release submission | Jun 8, 2022
Katko, Pfluger: The Homeland is Less Secure Under Biden
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Box Elder man who admitted to distributing methamphetamine and fentanyl pills on and around the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation was sentenced today to twelve and a half years in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By Press release submission | Jun 8, 2022
Katko: Title 42 is Critical to Managing the Biden Border Crisis
By EPA Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on President Biden’s decision to exempt tariffs for solar panels from certain Asian countries, along with the administration’s announced use of the Defense Production Act (DPA) to push its rush-to-green agenda, all of which will make the United States even more dependent upon Chinese supply chains.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 8, 2022
News Release: Kenneth Graham is the next NOAA assistant administrator for weather services and the 17th director of the National Weather Service, effective today, June 7, 2022.
By Press release submission | Jun 8, 2022
Peters, Grassley, Hassan & Ernst Bipartisan Legislation to Prevent Conflicts of Interest in Federal Contracting Advances in Senate
