News from May 2022
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) delivered remarks at today’s subcommittee hearing on legislation to improve American economic leadership, including legislation to strengthen the travel and tourism industry.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: WATERBURY, Conn. - United States Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery, Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Waterbury Police Chief Fernando C. Spagnolo announced that the following 14 individuals have been arrested on federal narcotics trafficking charges related to the distribution of fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine and oxycodone in and around Waterbury...
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Congressman Fred Keller (R-Pa.), and Oversight Committee Republicans pushed U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm to provide the Biden Administration’s plan to replenish the Strategic...
By Homeland Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Mike Braun (R-IN) to bolster the performance of federal agencies and ensure they are effectively carrying out their mission for the American people has advanced in the Senate. The Federal Agency Performance Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Bay man pleaded guilty today to cyberstalking multiple young women in a “sextortion" campaign he waged while he was an active-duty member of the United States Marine Corps.
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 2022
There was activity on 13 bills related to the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee on May 26.
By State Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. It’s a great pleasure to receive my colleague, the foreign minister of Angola, here at the State Department. We have between the United States and Angola a strong bilateral relationship but also a growing partnership on interests of – on interests that are of mutual concern – trade, health, climate, governance.
By State Newswire | May 27, 2022
There was activity on six bills related to the Foreign Relations Committee on May 26.
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 2022
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 on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) response to the infant formula crisis, and further action necessary to get formula safely back on the shelves...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: Career prosecutor Steven A. Russell has been named the Acting United States Attorney to take over following the retirement of Interim United States Attorney Jan W. Sharp. Russell’s appointment will be effective on May 28, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ODAI WIRELESS, LLC d/b/a ELITE WIRELESS, located in New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on May 26, 2022 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna Phillips Currault to one-count of copyright infringement.
By Homeland Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) introduced the bipartisan Transnational Criminal Investigative Unit Stipend Act to authorize the existing Transnational Criminal Investigative...
By DOE Newswire | May 27, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on May 31.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that David Torres, age 33, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on May 26, 2022, to 164 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a 5-year term of supervised release, by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, for trafficking in fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that four men have been sentenced for their involvement in the theft of 32 firearms from a gun dealer in Maurice, Louisiana. United States District Judge Robert R. Summerhays sentenced the defendants as follows.
By USDA Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reached a consent decision against Gregg Ebner Jr. (Ebner) of Wichita Falls, Texas, on May 23, 2022, for alleged violations of the Packers and Stockyards (P&S) Act.
By Homeland Newswire | May 27, 2022
There was activity on five bills related to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on May 26.
By DOE Newswire | May 27, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on May 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | May 27, 2022
U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo - PAS Annual Program Statement grant opened on May 27.
By US DOT Newswire | May 27, 2022
News Release: President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law invests in research, workforce development and more through popular partnership with colleges around the U.S.
