News from March 2022
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Since the day President Biden announced his intention to nominate Judge Jackson to the Supreme Court, support for her nomination has flooded in.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
In a speech on the Senate floor, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and one of the lead cosponsors of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization Act, joined fellow lead cosponsors, Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), to celebrate President Biden signing VAWA’s reauthorization into law.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
“According to independent experts at Moody’s Analytics, if Congress had not passed the American Rescue Plan, the country could have plunged into a double-dip recession instead.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
“We have questioned the ‘motivation and legitimacy of your inquiries’ into the oil and gas industry since the investigation began,” wrote the lawmakers.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking nominees to fill 14 positions as members on the Plant Variety Protection Board.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
They also discussed the importance of unified action to hold Russia accountable for Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will travel to Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey; Madrid, Spain; Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco; Algiers, Algeria; and Cairo, Egypt from March 4 to 11.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
“The Biden Administration continues to attack our fundamental right to free speech as they collude with Big Tech to carry out their censorship campaign
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
“We are not aware of any public announcements of the reappointments for any current NIH institute or center directors.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
A new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report shows use of no-till, crop rotations, more efficient irrigation methods and advanced technologies have climbed in recent years.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Committee, today introduced bipartisan legislation to add Ireland to the E-3 non-immigrant visa program.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has reopened the rulemaking record partially and scheduled an informal public hearing to seek comments on specific topics that relate to the development of a final standard to protect healthcare and healthcare support service workers from workplace exposure to the COVID-19 virus.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Solicitor of Labor Seema Nanda today issued a statement on the Department of Labor’s filing of an amicus in a case now before the National Labor Relations Board.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
UPDATED: US Department of Labor issues $167K in penalties to address workplace safety deficiencies after 29-year-old worker’s electrocution at Clinton TVA
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) held an executive session on the Prepare for and Responded to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats, and Pandemics Act (PREVENT Pandemics Act), legislation recently introduced by Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) to strengthen the nation’s preparedness and response framework amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
A New York Man pleaded guilty today to charges arising from a scheme to fraudulently obtain business loans and unemployment pandemic relief funds made available under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Acting U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that Lawrence Lawson, 41, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced on March 15, 2022, to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $355,849 in restitution after Lawson pleaded guilty to his role in a conspiracy that fraudulently obtained COVID-19 pandemic unemployment insurance benefits.
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
Contractor Who Lied to OSHA Investigators is Sentenced
By Press release submission | Mar 23, 2022
An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for conspiring to fraudulently obtain more than $700,000, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced
