News published on Federal Newswire in March 2023

News from March 2023


Grothman: Subcommittee gets chance 'to examine the technology and resources that work to keep our nation safe at the border'

Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI), chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs, announced in advance of the March 8 hearing on “Force Multipliers: Examining the Need for Additional Resources to Disrupt Transnational Crime at the Border and Beyond” would analyze the Department of Homeland Security’s methods for addressing crime, drugs, and human trafficking at the southern border.


Dearman: New SIPI president has inspired ‘Indigenous students for more than 40 years’

A member of the Navajo Nation who pledged to serve and build Tribal communities is the new president of Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M.


Dahl: Environmental Managements works 'to get kids interested in STEM careers'

More than 100 engineers from the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington recently volunteered to conduct interactive demonstrations for elementary and middle school students in the area.


Blinken: 'Northern Ireland will benefit from the opportunity, certainty and stability' from the Windsor Framework

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken congratulated the United Kingdom and European Union for reaching the "Windsor Framework," a set of policies introduced as a "fresh approach to the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland."


News Release: General Description. Splash! What’s that? You look but only see water rings. Upon closer inspection there’s a cluster of black and white eggs at the shallow edge of a pond. You hear five faint chucking sounds and a low pitched grating noise. There it is! It’s a frog sitting on a partially submerged rock.


USDOJ-OJP-BJA offers new grant application process starting March 9

BJA FY 23 Drug Data Research Center to Combat the Overdose Crisis grant opened on March 9.


Lillian Malcolm

News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: Alabama Homesteader. Place of Birth: North Carolina. Date of Birth: Between 1939 and 1842. Date of Death: unknown. Place of Burial: unknown. Willis Kyles was 38 when enumerated on the 1880 Census. He was living in Uchee, Russell County, Alabama, and was listed as a farmer born in...


DOI-FWS offers new grant application process starting March 9

F23AS00302 - Migratory Bird Conservation in the Midwest grant opened on March 9.


Comer Applauds Senate Passage of Resolution Blocking D.C. Council’s Pro-Criminal Law

News Release: Dear Senator Durbin: I applaud your decision to hold a hearing on “the civil rights implications when racial profiling and ‘stand your ground’ laws mix."[1]. Over the last year, the Trayvon Martin shooting and the acquittal of his admitted killer have reignited a national conversation about the significant...


Comer: We Must Protect Americans from Censorship

News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a Democratic staff memo that refutes Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s claims that the White House directed the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to disable...


DOI-USGS1 grant application closes on April 14

Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on March 9.


China's theft of U.S. intellectual property poses 'existential threat' to America

Congress is making inroads into the mammoth task of trying to determine how much of a threat Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) theft of intellectual property is and what the nation can do to mitigate the problem.


Agriculture Department discusses Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request on March 8

The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


USDOJ-OJP-OJJDP grant application closes on April 26

OJJDP FY 2023 Strengthening ICAC Technological Investigative Capacity grant opened on March 9.


News Release: LAWRENCE KIYOSHI SHINODA. Family # 20983. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 29-7-4. Written by Grace Shinoda Nakamura, Larry’s sister. My father, Kiyoshi Shinoda, came to the USA from Japan when he was 12, and my mother, Hide Wata­nabe, was one. Our father died when I was three and my sister Grace was six.


The US Environmental Protection Agency published an eight page rule on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Who are you?. What is your favorite color?. What is the name of your best friend?. What is the farthest place from home you've ever visited?. What is one crazy thing you can do that no one else can?. All these things make up the you that is you - an amazing, fabulous, beautiful person. For this activity...