News from February 2023
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Department of Labor, Better Business Bureau North Central Texas
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Danielle Lowrey and Katherine Russell, Orutsararmiut Native Council. Danielle Lowery was born and raised in Bethel, Alaska. She received her bachelor's degree in marine biology at the University of Alaska Southeast and then returned to her hometown to work for her Tribe. She now serves as the fisheries...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Tulsa man Thursday for holding a 72-year-old woman captive in her own home and brutally assaulting her, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced that the Department has become a member of the United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). As the first new member of the interagency USGCRP body in nearly two decades, DHS will join as its 14th member agency.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: TULSA, OK - In a visit to Tulsa, Oklahoma today, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh highlighted the need to promote economic justice for people in Black and other underserved communities and how the U.S. Department of Labor is working to help business owners create good-paying jobs and equip workers to fill these positions in these communities.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Dear Attorney General Holder: We write today to encourage the Department of Justice (the Department) to continue a vigorous review of potential payment fraud, anti-money-laundering violations, and other illegal conduct involving payments by banks and third-party payment processors. We believe this review...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: On Monday, you traveled to New Hampshire to attend a Republican political event and fundraiser, where you gave a speech on Benghazi.[1] You explained the goal of your trip as follows: “I came here to hopefully shape the debate for 2016."[2] After watching a video of your speech, I...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - A dual Nigerian and Canadian citizen was sentenced today in federal court in Austin to 87 months imprisonment, ordered to pay more than $1.67 million in restitution, and forfeited a $2 million money judgment for his role in a conspiracy to commit fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: A Reflection on the Colossal Legislation and its Effects on Alaska’s Peoples, Resources, and Conservation.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Russian national was charged in an indictment unsealed today in connection with a series of computer system intrusions that occurred in 2009 and 2010, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) led a group of Republican committee members in sending a letter to U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Chief Randy Moore, requesting their agencies finalize...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
Release: Participants: U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
The US Interior Department published a one page proposed rule on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At the Organizing Meeting for the House Committee on Ways and Means, Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) laid out the agenda for the 118th Congress, including tax relief for middle-class families, fighting the inflation hitting family budgets, ending the labor shortage crushing small businesses, promoting trade policies that open markets to American goods, holding the IRS accountable, and lifting families out of poverty.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, everyone. FOREIGN MINISTER HUSSEIN: Good morning. SECRETARY BLINKEN: It’s a great pleasure to have my longtime friend Fuad Hussein, the foreign minister of Iraq, here at the State Department in Washington. We have worked together for many years - too many years. But...
