News published on Federal Newswire in September 2022

News from September 2022


Cotton: Cook urged 'to rethink Apple's decision to do business with YMTC'

U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., asked the CEO of Apple to reconsider partnering with China's Yangtze Memory Technologies Corporation (YMTC) and said doing so would pose a threat to Apple customers as well as American national security.



@EdLaborGOP Demand Answers on Biden’s Student Loan Debt Scheme and School Shutdowns

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a markup of three education-related resolutions of inquiry meant to hold the Biden administration accountable and provide transparency to the American people...



Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Turkmenistan. During the review period, budget documents and information on debt obligations were not made public, including for state-owned enterprises. The government published aggregate revenue data online in its state-run newspaper. Publicly available budget...


News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) led 17 of their Republican colleagues in calling on the U.S. Department of Education to release the data it recently collected on how schools have used COVID-19 funding to combat learning loss.


New notice from Indian Affairs Bureau to be published on Sept. 20

There is one release scheduled to be published on Sept. 20.


Release: The United States, through the Department of the Treasury and the Department of State, and in coordination with international partners including the government of Switzerland and Afghan economic experts, today announced the establishment of a fund to benefit the people of Afghanistan, or the “Afghan Fund.".


News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra calling for an end to HHS’ interim final rule with comments (IFC) which mandates masking of children as young as two at Head Start programs across the country.


There are two releases scheduled to be published on Sept. 20.


News Release: WASHINGTON ­-- FEMA announced that federal emergency aid has been made available to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to supplement the Commonwealth’s response efforts due to emergency conditions resulting from Tropical Storm Fiona beginning Sept. 17 and continuing.


AAAE and TSA offer airports virtual training course in effort to mitigate the insider threat

Release: WASHINGTON For National Insider Threat Awareness Month, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the American Association of Airport Executives (AAAE) encourage use of a recently developed virtual insider threat training course. The two organizations jointly developed the virtual training...


'Critical step to address historic PCB contamination': EPA, GE reach agreement on study of Hudson River

The Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with General Electric Company (GE) for the company to evaluate the Lower River section of the Hudson River polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) Superfund site to determine the best course of action for resolving contamination, according to a Sept. 13 EPA news release.


News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2022 The U.S. Department of Agricultures Foreign Agricultural Service is awarding $300,000 to six U.S. universities including three minority-serving institutions for research and educational partnerships focused on climate-smart agriculture in tropical countries, FAS Administrator Daniel Whitley announced today.



New notice from Farm Service Agency to be published on Sept. 20

There are two releases scheduled to be published on Sept. 20.


Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Kazakhstan. During the review period, the government published its executive budget proposal and enacted budget, but not its end-of-year report, in a reasonable period. Information on debt obligations was widely and easily accessible to the public, including online...




Waterhouse: Brownsfield clean-up grants will trigger 'environmentally just redevelopment'

Communities with brownfield sites are now eligible for a portion of the approximately $169 million in grant funding for remediation of the sites, without the matching-funds requirement in some cases.


2022 Fiscal Transparency Report: Afghanistan

Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Afghanistan. On Aug. 15, 2021, the Taliban took over Kabul. The U.S. government has not yet decided whether to recognize the Taliban or any other entity as the Government of Afghanistan or as part of such a government. During the review period, the pre-August 15...