News from March 2023

By Bob Pepalis | Mar 9, 2023
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.

By Tamara Browning | Mar 9, 2023
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.

By Sam Jackson | Mar 9, 2023
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.

By State Newswire Report | Mar 9, 2023
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."
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
BJA FY 23 Drug Data Research Center to Combat the Overdose Crisis grant opened on March 9.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
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...

By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
F23AS00302 - Migratory Bird Conservation in the Midwest grant opened on March 9.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
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...

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
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...

By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on March 9.

By Laurie A. Luebbert | Mar 9, 2023
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.

By USDA Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
OJJDP FY 2023 Strengthening ICAC Technological Investigative Capacity grant opened on March 9.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
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.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published an eight page rule on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
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...