News from March 2022

By Press release submission | Mar 16, 2022
Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.)

By Press release submission | Mar 16, 2022
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations, the U.S. Border Patrol, Office of Field Operations, along with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners responded simultaneously to a maritime smuggling event on Sunday afternoon in Key Largo, Florida, where a vessel containing 356 Haitian migrants ran aground several hundred yards offshore.

By Bob Pepalis | Mar 16, 2022
Approximately $5 billion in funding has been earmarked to create a coast-to-coast system of EV charging stations, the U.S. Departments of Transportation and Energy announced last month.

By Bob Pepalis | Mar 16, 2022
Secretary of State Antony Blinken authorized an additional $200 million to provide military assistance to Ukraine, according to a March 12 statement on the Department of State website.

By Press release submission | Mar 16, 2022
Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) today spoke on the Senate floor ahead of the vote on the Fiscal Year 2022 (FY22) omnibus appropriations package, which contains all 12 appropriations measures and approximately $14 billion in emergency funding in response to the situation in Ukraine

By Press release submission | Mar 16, 2022
Park rangers from Congaree National Park, along with staff from Kings Mountain National Military Park, Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the SC Forestry Commission, will be conducting a prescribed burn March 28-April 8, weather and conditions permitting.

By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
Converting UNF Radioisotopes into Energy SBIR/STTR (CURIE SBIR/STTR). grant opened on March 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man pleaded guilty today to a child pornography crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Clearfield, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of 8 years in prison followed by 4 years supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today published an op-ed in The Hill reflecting on the second anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic and advocating for his International Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Response Act, comprehensive legislation to improve global health and pandemic preparedness before the next outbreak.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Natural Resources Committee will hold a full committee markup on the RESPECT Act (H.R. 3587 ) tomorrow, March 16 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time. The livestream of the hearing can be viewed at.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SINCERE SAVOY was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his participation in the 2016 murder of Shamoya McKenzie and the affairs of the Goonies street gang. In September 2021, co-defendant DAVID HARDY...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Savannah man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison after admitting his role in a series of convenience store armed robberies.

By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
“ENERGY POLICIES“ was published in the Senate section on pages S1077-S1078 on March 10
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TAURUS RUSSELL, age 43, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced on March 10, 2022 to a three-count superseding bill of information. In Count 1, RUSSELL was charged with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
FY22 Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) National Level Training and Technical Assistance grant opened on March 15.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - An ongoing federal investigation into an alleged procurement fraud scheme at a Chicago elementary school has resulted in charges against a sales representative for a Chicago Public Schools vendor.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Brady: Who is Biden Going to Blame Now for 7.9% Inflation - Major League Baseball?.