News from March 2022
By Press release submission | Mar 26, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management will be conducting prescribed burns throughout southwest Idaho to reduce unsafe accumulations of tumbleweeds along fencelines from late March through April, depending on weather, vegetation, and ground conditions.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
E&C Chairman Expresses Concern Oil Industry Is Exploiting the War in Ukraine for Its Own Economic Gain
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing titled, “5G and Beyond: Exploring the Next Wireless Frontier:”
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in response to reports that a delegation of senior Biden administration officials met with the Maduro regime to discuss the release of arbitrarily imprisoned Americans and the potential purchase of Venezuelan oil: “If the reports are true that the Biden administration is brokering the purchase of Venezuelan oil, I fear that it risks perpetuating a humanitarian crisis that has destabilized Latin America and the Caribbean for an entire generation. Nicolás Maduro is a cancer to our hemisphere and we should not breathe new life into his reign of torture and murder. As such, I would strongly oppose any action that fills the pockets of regime oligarchs with oil profits while Maduro continues to deprive Venezuelans of basic human rights, freedoms, and even food.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today is calling on the Biden administration to take whatever steps it deems necessary to expedite and support the immediate transfer of fighter aircraft from NATO and Eastern European countries to the government of Ukraine. The request follows a personal and sobering plea on Saturday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to U.S. lawmakers requesting Soviet-era fighter jets that the Ukrainian Air Force can immediately use to counter Putin’s ongoing and indiscriminate attacks on civilians.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed in San Diego against a Guatemalan national, following an investigation led by U.S.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
A three-party contract allowing for the Arkansas Valley Conduit to deliver clean drinking water to 50,000 people in 39 communities east of Pueblo was signed by the Bureau of Reclamation on March 18, 2022, following approval by the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District Board and the Pueblo Board of Water Works (Pueblo Water).
By David Hutton | Mar 25, 2022
The U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently led an investigation that resulted in a 10-year prison sentence of a south Texas man for “catching a case” of sex tourism with a minor.
By John Kelly | Mar 25, 2022
Secretary Mayorkas swore in new members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council at its first meeting.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
With our allies and partners, the United States is committed to ensuring the Government of the Russian Federation pays a severe economic and diplomatic price for its invasion of Ukraine.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
The United States is committed to the responsible development and design of digital assets and the technology that underpins new forms of payments and capital flows in the international financial system.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
The United States is designating two Hizballah financiers operating in Guinea: Ali Saade and Ibrahim Taher.
By T.H. Lawrence | Mar 25, 2022
In the more than a year since President Joe Biden assumed office, U.S.-China relations remain on edge, and might be teetering toward a steep decline, according to a number of analysts.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
Deputy United States Trade Representative Sarah Bianchi will travel to Australia the week of March 14.
By Andy Nghiem | Mar 25, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently released a memo outlining how to equitably distribute $43 billion in water infrastructure funding.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
Today, as the nation observes Equal Pay Day – the day through which U.S. women typically must work to be paid the same wages men received in 2021 – the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs issued a new directive to promote greater contractor attention concerning the proactive and effective use of pay equity audits to identify barriers to equal pay in their pay-setting and employment practices.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) delivered opening remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing on spectrum management.
By Press release submission | Mar 25, 2022
A Winnemucca man who admitted to his role in a conspiracy to steal multiple firearms from a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) was sentenced today to three years and four months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice unsealed two indictments today charging four defendants, all Russian nationals who worked for the Russian government, with attempting, supporting and conducting computer intrusions that together, in two separate conspiracies, targeted the global energy sector between 2012 and 2018. In total, these hacking campaigns targeted thousands of computers, at hundreds of companies and organizations, in approximately 135 countries.
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week joined Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) and 38 members of Congress in sending a bicameral letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken advocating that the State Department assist Ukrainian refugees ...
