News published on Federal Newswire in March 2022

News from March 2022


E&C Announces Hearing on Upgrading America’s Drinking Water Infrastructure

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, March 29, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) on federal efforts to update our drinking water infrastructure. The hearing is entitled, “Trusting the Tap: Upgrading America’s Drinking Water Infrastructure."


Jury Convicts Glenpool Man for Sexually Exploiting a Minor

News Release: A federal jury found a Glenpool man guilty Tuesday for sexually exploiting a 16-year-old minor, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) sent a letter to Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm inviting her to testify before the Energy and Commerce Committee on what the Biden administration will do to reverse its anti-American energy agenda and help increase domestic oil and gas production in order to lower costs.


Homeland Security Department discusses Rescission of the Notice of July 23, 2019, Designating Aliens for Expedited Removal on March 21

The US Homeland Security Department published a three page notice on March 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.



FBI Foils Delaware Man’s Murder-for-Hire Plot

News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A Wilmington man was arrested today on charges of devising a plot to engage in interstate murder-for-hire. According to court documents, Javier A. Rodriguez, age 47, hired a hitman to murder his ex-wife. Over the course of the investigation, Rodriguez made a down payment of $5,000 to another individual to pay for the hitman. Rodriguez also agreed to pay an additional $5,000 once the murder was completed.


Comer & Katko Blast DHS for Hiding Information About Terrorists Apprehended at the Border

News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member John Katko (R-N.Y.) today blasted the Biden Administration for hiding information from the public about terrorists apprehended at the southern border. In a letter...


McCaul Supports Aid for Ukraine, Counterterrorism Efforts in Africa, and Funding for Israel and Childhood Cancer Initiatives

House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has voted for legislation that authorizes $13.6 billion to support U.S. troops in Europe and provide humanitarian and lethal aid for Ukraine, as well as $4.8 billion in security assistance and missile defense funding for Israel.


The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page notice on March 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


DOS-SCT grant application closes on May 23

Raising Public Awareness on Countering the Financing of Terrorism in the Tri-Border Area grant opened on March 23.


McCaul, Green on State’s Refusal to Provide Important Details on MPP

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Civilian Security, Migration, and International Economic Policy Lead Republican Mark Green (R-TN) released a statement on the State Department’s Continued Refusal to Provide Information on U.S. Foreign Assistance Funds Associated with the Reimplementation of the Migration Protection Protocols (MPP).


Senator Murray Continues Bipartisan Progress On Addressing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Crises: “We Need to Rise to This Moment”

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing focused on how the federal government can better support frontline efforts to address the mental health and substance use disorder crises that have been exacerbated by COVID-19 and have touched communities across our country.



News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Christopher Larue, 44, of Lansdale, PA, was sentenced to 25 years and one day in prison, five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $7,500 fine by United States District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter for committing an armed bank robbery in Bucks County and then nearly killing a Pennsylvania State Trooper in Montgomery County directly thereafter.


Morristown NHP Unveils Crossroads Welcome Markers

On a snowy March 9, much like the weather the Continental Army endured in Morristown during the American Revolution, Morristown National Historical Park (NHP) and the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area (Crossroads) celebrated the installation of Crossroads welcome marker signs at the park.


News Release: WASHINGTON -- FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announced today a new federal grant initiative that will help four states affected by Hurricane Ida, one of the most intense storms to hit the United States in recent years, become more resilient to flooding.


Correctional Officer At FCI Dublin Charged For Abusive Sexual Contact With Female Inmate

News Release: OAKLAND - Enrique Chavez appeared yesterday in federal court to face an indictment charging him with two counts of abusive sexual contact against a prison inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute Dublin (FCI Dublin).


News Release: Three members of a violent criminal gang were convicted today in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) by a federal jury for RICO conspiracy, murder, attempted murder, robbery, and drug dealing.


The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on March 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.