News from June 2022
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) denied marketing authorization and ordered JUUL tobacco products off the market...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Utah/Ariz. - Glen Canyon National Recreation Area is returning to Stage One Fire Restrictions. The restrictions on campfires are eased, allowing campfires in established campgrounds within established rings and below the high-water mark on Lake Powell in areas completely void of vegetation. Discharge or use any kind of fireworks or other pyrotechnic devices are always prohibited on all federal public lands.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies today approved by voice vote its fiscal year 2023 bill.
By John Kelly | Jun 24, 2022
The Federal Railroad Administration recently announced $2 million in Railroad Trespassing Enforcement Grants and $207,000 in Railroad Trespassing Suicide Prevention Grants.
By Karen Kidd | Jun 24, 2022
Yellowstone National Park officials are speaking optimistically about recovery from devastating floods earlier this month while the Associated Press reports come-back costs could be "upwards of $1 billion."
By Trina Thomas | Jun 24, 2022
The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Chair of 1890s Presidents Council Dr. Paul Jones signed a Memorandum of Understanding June 14 to build up the alliance of the 1890s community and the USDA.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: PALM SPRINGS, Calif. - The BLM California Desert District is seeking additional applicants interested in serving on subgroups that assist the Desert Advisory Council, a citizen-based advisory committee that develops recommendations for the BLM on public land management issues. Responsibilities include...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it signed a settlement agreement with SpringShine Consulting, Inc., an IT staffing company based in California. The settlement resolves claims that SpringShine discriminated against U.S. workers based on their citizenship status when it solicited applications for employment opportunities only from those seeking sponsorship for temporary work visas.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) invited Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to testify before the Committee during a hearing on Medicare Advantage (MA).
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: MEMPHIS, TN - The operator of a Memphis Schlotzsky’s restaurant endangered minor-aged workers, the U.S. Department of Labor found after an investigation into a 16-year-old worker’s thumb injury.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks at today’s Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee markup on the need to enact comprehensive privacy and data security protections for Americans.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, convened a hearing with outside experts on how the federal government can more effectively provide access to critical services and benefits for people across the country. The committee...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on June 23.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 945,390 visitors to Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in 2021 spent $61,521,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 881 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $78,685,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Three men from Shreveport, Louisiana have been sentenced for illegally possessing firearms, United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced. Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. has sentenced two of the men, LilTerrence Pierce, 27, and Keyon Coleman, 19. Pierce ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Republican Leader Richard Burr (R-NC) are requesting an explanation from Education Department Secretary Miguel Cardona following reports that a radical lobbying group is influencing higher education policies.
By Press release submission | Jun 24, 2022
New Orleans Woman Sentenced for Conspiring to Stage Automobile Accident in Order to Defraud Insurance and Trucking Companies
By Press release submission | Jun 24, 2022
Two Federally Indicted For Unlawful Possession Of Firearms In Connection With June 5, 2022 McCallie Avenue Shootings
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Thursday, June 30, at 11:30 a.m. (EDT) on several bills to repair and improve our nation’s recycling system. The hearing is entitled, “No Time to Waste: Solutions for America’s Broken Recycling System."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Raúl Grijalva, lead sponsor of the LGBTQI+ Data Inclusion Act, announced that more than 200 advocacy organizations-including the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, the Human Rights Campaign, ...
