News from March 2023
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) is making it easier for parents to avoid paying junk fees to sit with their children when they fly by rolling out a new family seating dashboard that highlights the airlines that guarantee fee-free family seating, and those that do not. .
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Republican Leader Senator John Boozman (R-AR) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack requesting an extension of the review period...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) and Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on forward-looking, bipartisan legislation seeking to promote competition, innovation, security, and American leadership in the thriving commercial satellite communications industry...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Prineville, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on a proposal to acquire about 4,000 acres of private land along the John Day River.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 6 - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (HELP), announced Monday that the committee will hold an Executive Session this Wednesday, March 8, at 10:00 a.m. ET to vote on a subpoena for Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ETHAN PHELAN MELZER, a/k/a “Etil Reggad," was sentenced to 45 years in prison for attempting to murder U.S. service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: This 1/4 mile trail branches off the Eagle Trail. Start at the Trail Head near the amphitheater and follow Eagle Trail approximately 1/4 mile to reach the Honey Locust Trail.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: On Wednesday at 10:15 a.m., the Education and the Workforce Committee will hold a markup to consider two bills: H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2023 and H.R. 5, the Parents Bill of Rights Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today, Radamés Benítez-Cardona, former assistant to the former mayor of Trujillo Alto, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Pedro A. Delgado-Hernández to serve 30 months in prison, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow. Benítez-Cardona...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, March 6, 2023 - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the Biden-Harris Administration is investing $89 million across the country to finance the startup and expansion of independent meat processors. USDA also announced initial steps the Department is taking to create a more competitive marketplace for seeds and other agricultural inputs.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: The longest trail in the monument, Eagle Trail is 1/2 mile long. It starts at the trailhead near the amphitheater and ends at the Welcome Center.
By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Senior Official to the Secretary of State in the Office of Global Women’s Issues Kat Fotovat will travel to New York City from March 6-14, 2023, as a senior member of the U.S. Delegation to the 67th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan says his various investigations have proven the need for substantial congressional oversight of the federal government, and he told Fox News Digital he's hopeful House Democrats can find ways to work with the GOP majority.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHET STOJANOVICH, a/k/a “Chester J. Stojanovich," was sentenced today to three years in prison. STOJANOVICH was sentenced for defrauding more than a dozen victims of more than $2 million through fraudulent...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Justice and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have entered into a consent decree with the City of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act regarding the city’s water pollution control facility that discharges undertreated effluent into Massachusetts Bay.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: This 200 yard trail branches off the Deer Loop Trail. Start at the Trail Head near the amphitheater. Take the first right onto Deer Loop Trail and reach the Camel Trail in a few yards.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: April 2022 - In 2018, the Presidio of San Francisco’s live “Hawk Cam" was established above a nest located 100 feet up in one of the blue gum eucalyptus trees near the Main Post. Over a few seasons, it’s given all of us an up-close and personal look at nesting raptors in the park-and it’s back. The same breeding resident pair of hawks have returned to their nest four years later - and two chicks hatched starting on Easter weekend!.
By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Vincent Smith, director of the American Enterprise Institute’s agricultural policy initiative, today published an op-ed in The Hill on why Congress must eliminate cargo preference for U.S. international emergency food assistance to address the international food security crisis.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After urging the Biden Administration to enforce Mexico’s obligations under USMCA, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) and Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith (NE-03) released the following statements upon the announcement that U.S. Trade Representative...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2023
News Release: I spent weeks informally observing desert bighorn sheep during the 2020 pandemic closure. My observations show where to take our research.
