News from January 2023
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) will hold the first Oversight Committee hearing of the 118th Congress titled “Federal Pandemic Spending: A Prescription for Waste, Fraud, and Abuse," to focus on investigating the rampant waste of taxpayer dollars in COVID relief programs.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM Richland Operations Office (RL ) contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Company (CPCCo) has awarded a two-year, $36 million subcontract to provide landfill management, operations, inspection and maintenance services for the Integrated Disposal Facility (IDF) and Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility (ERDF) on the Hanford Site.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a revised Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program. Any combustible material can burn rapidly when in a finely divided form. If such a dust is suspended in air in the right concentration, under certain...
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: The following is a statement from Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, United States of America, James Cleverly, Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, United Kingdom, Catherine Colonna, Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, France, and Annalena Baerbock, Federal Foreign Minister, Germany
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: KINGMAN, KS ‒ A Kingman plastics manufacturer's failure to make sure required safety procedures were followed contributed to the death of a worker who suffered fatal injuries when he became entangled in a rotating part inside a bagging machine while trying to clear a jam, a federal workplace safety investigation found.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Merrick B. Garland, the Attorney General of the United States, Lisa O. Monaco, the Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Christopher A. Wray, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Matthew...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Demetrius Thompson, aka “Tone," 44, of Brooklyn, New York was arrested yesterday in Rutland, Vermont. On Dec. 14, 2022, Thompson had been indicted by the federal grand jury for distributions of fentanyl and cocaine base. Thompson is scheduled to be arraigned later today before United States Magistrate Judge Kevin J. Doyle.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) announced today that it does not expect to purchase and sell sugar under the Feedstock Flexibility Program for crop year 2022, which runs from Oct. 1, 2022, to Sept. 30, 2023.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: JOLIET, IL - Federal investigators have found a Joliet restaurant and catering company illegally employed 25 minor-aged workers as bussers, runners and dishwashers after 7 p.m. on school nights and 9 p.m. on weekends, and some more than 18 hours a week, and denied seven other workers overtime for hours over 40 in workweek.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
The US Federal Reserve System published a three page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
Release: The United States condemns the attack on the Azerbaijani embassy that occurred earlier today in Tehran. We echo President Aliyev’s call for a prompt investigation into this unacceptable violence. We offer our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those who were killed and injured today.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) applauded the House passing H.R. 21, the Strategic Production Response Act, which would help ensure the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is available during a true energy emergency and not abused for non-emergency, political purposes.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
Release: Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland will travel to Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, and Qatar from January 28 to Feb. 3, 2023.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
Release: The following joint statement was released by the Governments of the United States and Italy at the 14th meeting of the U.S.-Italy Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: Defendant Convicted of Obstructing the Certification of the 2020 Election.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: The text of this statement was released by Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2023
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Luis Martinez, 51, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, five grams or more of methamphetamine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years and a fine of $5,000,000.
