News published on Federal Newswire in February 2023

Remarks at a U.S. hosted, High-Level Side Event on Globalizing Efforts to Combat Antisemitism

By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023

Remarks at a U.S. hosted, High-Level Side Event on Globalizing Efforts to Combat Antisemitism

Remarks at a UN Security Council Meeting on Threats to International Peace and Security Caused by Terrorist Acts

By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023

Remarks at a UN Security Council Meeting on Threats to International Peace and Security Caused by Terrorist Acts

Readout of Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Discussions with NGOs Responding to the Earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria

By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023

Readout of Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s Discussions with NGOs Responding to the Earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria

Game changers to bring the LDCs back on track to achieve the 2030 Agenda and ensure the timely implementation of the Doha Programme of Action

By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023

Game changers to bring the LDCs back on track to achieve the 2030 Agenda and ensure the timely implementation of the Doha Programme of Action

Remarks on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse During UNICEF Executive Board First Regular Session 2023

By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2023

Remarks on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse During UNICEF Executive Board First Regular Session 2023

Ranking Member Risch Welcomes Foreign Relations Committee Spring 2023 Interns

By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently welcomed four new committee interns for the spring term.

Risch, McCaul “Gravely Concerned” with Biden Admin Allowing Interactions with Assad Regime

By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to the Biden Administration’s “general license" related to Syria. The move undermines longstanding U.S. policy under both Republican and Democrat administrations, including this administration’s comments this week.

USDOJ-OJP-OVW grant application closes on March 24

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2023

OVW Fiscal Year 2023 Grants to Engage Men and Boys as Allies in the Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls Program - Solicitation grant opened on Feb. 13.

APHIS Extends the Deadline to Comment on Draft Pest Risk Assessment for the Importation of Fresh Orange and Tangerine from Egypt

By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2023

Release: APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment for the importation of fresh Orange (Citrus sinensis) and Tangerine (Citrus reticulata) for consumption from Egypt into the United States. The assessment describes potential pests associated with the commodity. This pest risk assessment will update a Federal Register notice published in 2013 () that included a pest list and the U.S. geographic areas that can receive these imports.

Chairmen Jim Jordan and Mike Turner Send Second Batch of Letters to Intelligence Officials Who Called Hunter Biden's Laptop Russian Disinformation

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2023

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Chairmen Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Mike Turner (R-OH) sent a second batch of letters to intelligence officials about the public statement signed in October 2020 that attempted to discredit the New York Post’s reporting about Hunter Biden and said it was the product of Russian disinformation.

DOI-BLM offers new grant application process starting Feb. 13

By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2023

IIJA Bureau of Land Management California Wildlife Program grant opened on Feb. 13.

McCaul on Addition of Companies to Entity List for Involvement With CCP Spy Balloon

By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the following statement in response to the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security’s (BIS) decision to add six companies to the Entity List after learning of their involvement with the Chinese Communist...

Risch, Colleagues Reintroduce Bill to Expand Prohibitions on Use of Foreign Assistance Funding for Abortions

By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2023

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today reintroduced the American Values Act, legislation to permanently enact and expand existing prohibitions on the use of U.S. foreign assistance to pay for the performance or promotion of abortion services overseas.

Buttigieg: 'We are helping make our ports safer, more efficient and more reliable'

By US DOT Newswire Report | Feb 13, 2023

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration is making more than $662 million in fiscal year 2023 or the Port Infrastructure Development Program under Maritime Administration.