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News from May 2022


Leader Rodgers Discusses Baby Formula Shortage on Fox News

“This is devastating. It’s a matter of life and death.”


Pallone Opening Remarks at Full Committee Markup of Six Health Bills

Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a full Committee markup of six health bills today


USITC Makes Determinations in Five-Year (Sunset) Review Concerning Certain Coated Paper Suitable or High-Quality Print Graphics Using Sheet-Fed Presses from China and Indonesia

USITC Makes Determinations in Five-Year (Sunset) Review Concerning Certain Coated Paper Suitable or High-Quality Print Graphics Using Sheet-Fed Presses from China and Indonesia


Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Proposes Unilateral Controls on Exports of Four Naturally Occurring Marine Toxins for Public Comment

Today, the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) issued a rule proposing unilateral controls on exports of four naturally occurring marine toxins, the synthesis and collection of which BIS has identified for evaluation as pertaining to emerging and foundational technologies essential to the national security of the United States under Section 1758 of the Export Control Reform Act (ECRA) of 2018.


Per Pupil Spending Continues to Increase in 2020

Per pupil spending increased in fiscal year 2020 for the ninth year in a row, up to $13,494 in FY 2020 from $13,187 in FY 2019, a 2.3% increase from the previous year.


USDA Food and Nutrition Service Awards $1 Million Training Grant to Alabama Department of Education

USDA Food and Nutrition Service Awards $1 Million Training Grant to Alabama Department of Education



The US Homeland Security Department published a two page rule on May 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


There is one release scheduled to be published on May 26.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on May 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of southwestern Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years’ imprisonment on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Residential nursing care facilities management company in Illinois to pay  $3M in overtime back wages to 3,024 caregivers after federal investigation

News Release: PEORIA, IL - More than 3,000 caregivers at 84 residential nursing care facilities across three Midwestern states must be paid $2,939,576 in back overtime wages by the locations’ Illinois-based management company to resolve violations found in a U.S. Department of Labor investigation.


News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Serhat Gumrukcu, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Berk Eratay, 35, of Las Vegas, Nevada, were arrested yesterday after having been charged by a federal grand jury in Vermont with conspiring to use interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire which resulted in the death of Gregory Davis, a resident of Danville, Vermont.


USDA Under Secretary Jenny Lester Moffitt Visits Mexico to Celebrate 75 Years of Mexico-U.S. Commission for Prevention of Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Other Exotic Animal Diseases

Release: Wednesday, May 25 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Jenny L. Moffitt commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Mexico-U.S. Commission for Prevention of Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Other Exotic Animal Diseases (CPA). To celebrate this occasion, ...


U.S. Department of Commerce Invests $2.8 Million in American Rescue Plan Funds to Expand High-Speed Internet Service in Yadkinville, North Carolina

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.8 million grant to the Yadkin Valley Telephone Membership Corporation, Yadkinville, North Carolina, to construct a fiber optic network to enhance business connectivity. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.


Ship Owner and Operator Plead Guilty to Environmental and Safety Crimes

News Release: Empire Bulkers Limited and Joanna Maritime Limited, related companies based in Greece, pleaded guilty today to knowing violations of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships and the Ports and Waterways Safety Act related to the Motor Vessel Joanna.


Chair DeLauro Statement at Infant Formula Crisis Hearing

Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the United States Secret Service.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on May 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Release: Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) Anne A. Witkowsky will travel to Accra, Ghana, from May 25 to 27, 2022.


PAMS-SC offers new grant application process starting May 25

Reaching a New Energy Sciences Workforce for High Energy Physics (RENEW-HEP) grant opened on May 25.