News from November 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - This week the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) hosted regional family summits across the country in support of those who have lost loved ones to fentanyl poisoning.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Washington for more than $3.6 million to increase their purchase of nutritious, local foods for school meal programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Fort Lauderdale, Florida man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland today to committing bank fraud and conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 24, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 24, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page rule on Nov. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) emphasizing previously stated concerns about including permitting related provisions in must-pass legislation, namely the National Defense Authorization Act or government funding legislation.
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on the Biden administration’s request to Congress for $3 billion in emergency supplemental funding to provide rooftop solar and storage for low-income households and household with persons with disabilities in Puerto Rico.
By State Newswire | Nov 24, 2022
Release: The United States urges an immediate de-escalation in northern Syria. We are deeply concerned by recent military action that destabilizes the region, threatens our shared goal to fight ISIS, and endangers civilians and U.S. personnel.
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a new report, which found significant and increasing cybersecurity risks to offshore oil and gas drilling infrastructure, namely equipment operational technology.
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, ENR Committee Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-WY), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) sent a letter to Senate appropriators calling for $25 million in FY2023 funding for the Carbon Materials Science Initiative at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
Today, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to consider the nominations of Mr. David Crane to be Under Secretary of Energy for Infrastructure, Mr. Jeffrey M. Marootian to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Mr. Gene Rodrigues to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Committee, thanked all three nominees for their willingness to serve in these positions at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a nominations hearing.
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) and Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA-40) released the following statement on Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s call for Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign and threat to impeach him:
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, sent a letter to the Comptroller General requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a study to evaluate efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to identify and assist water and wastewater utilities that are vulnerable to shutdown from natural and other disasters, such as terrorist attacks and chemical and industrial accidents.
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
Today, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, sent a letter to the Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried and current Chief Executive Officer of FTX John R. Ray III, pressing for more information on FTX’s collapse and bankruptcy filing and the full scope of harm inflicted upon its investors.
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, issued the following statement after the Committee voted favorably to approve her bill, the Vote by Mail Tracking Act in a strong bipartisan vote:
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, chaired by Rep. James E. Clyburn, and the Committee on Oversight and Reform, chaired by Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, released new evidence that state and federal contractor ID.me inaccurately overstated its capacity to conduct identity verification services to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and made baseless claims about the amount of federal funds lost to pandemic fraud in an apparent attempt to increase demand for its identity verification services.
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Committee on Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) are raising concerns TikTok provided misleading or false information to the committees about its data sharing and privacy practices with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
By Press release submission | Nov 24, 2022
Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent letters to senior leadership at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) renewing requests for information about the Biden Administration’s policies that have fueled the ongoing border and fentanyl crises and mismanagement of taxpayer dollars.
