News published on Federal Newswire in March 2023

News from March 2023


OFCCP Changes Course After Chair Foxx Raises Concerns Over Agency Policy

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is planning on releasing job creators’ confidential employee data to accommodate a FOIA request from a left-leaning organization.


Mr. President, the State of Our Union is Troubling

Here’s the rub: America’s workforce, job creators, and students are caught in an inescapable riptide—and President Biden’s futile policies are to blame.


What They’re Saying: Biden’s ESG Rule Hurts America’s Workers, Retirees

The Biden administration is putting the retirement security of millions of Americans at risk.


Fact Checking Biden's Student Loan Bailout

Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding Biden’s illegal student loan debt scheme. Here’s a look at the most commonly heard myths, and the facts this administration is leaving behind.


Biden's Student Loan Scam

Supreme Court will hear arguments on the Biden administration’s student loan bailout which, if enacted, would cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars


Hearing Recap: Postsecondary Education Edition

Education and the Workforce Committee hearing covered the importance of improving workforce development programs and increasing accountability in postsecondary education.


Hearing Recap: K-12 Education Edition

“From elementary school to law school, the state of this nation’s education system is deeply troubling at every level,” Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) said in her opening statement during the Education and the Workforce Committee’s first hearing of the 118th Congress.


U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs

U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced members that will serve on the committee’s subcommittees in the 118th Congress


PETERS STATEMENT ON POSTAL SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT TO EXPAND ELECTRIC VEHICLE FLEET

U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after an announcement today from the United States Postal Service (USPS) saying they intend to move forward with awards to modernize and electrify the postal delivery vehicle fleet:


PETERS URGES SENATE TO CONFIRM ARCHIVIST NOMINEE

U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, convened a hearing where he urged the Senate to confirm Dr. Colleen Shogan as Archivist of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).


PETERS, COLLINS, CARPER & MURKOWSKI INTRODUCE BIPARTISAN LEGISLATION TO EXTEND FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS

U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Susan Collins (R-ME), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced bipartisan legislation to extend federal programs that help support local fire departments across the country.


Homeland Members Demand Briefing on Possible Surveillance of Homeland Equities by CCP Spy Balloon

Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) and Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement, and Intelligence Chairman August Pfluger (R-TX) led the Subcommittee members in calling for a briefing from NORAD and DHS on the possible compromising of homeland equities by the Chinese surveillance balloon that infiltrated U.S. airspace for several days in early February and was capable of conducting intelligence collection operations.


FACTSHEET: Biden’s DHS Touts Win in January But the Numbers Say Otherwise

Despite Biden’s Department of Homeland Security celebrating lower migrant encounter numbers last month, CBP had over 156,000 migrant encounters along the Southwest border in January. Don’t be fooled: while the monthly encounter numbers were lower than the previous month, over 156,000 encounters is not a good month.


Full Committee Hearing: “Every State is a Border State: Examining Secretary Mayorkas’ Border Crisis”

Full Committee Hearing: “Every State is a Border State: Examining Secretary Mayorkas’ Border Crisis”


Chairman Green: We Cannot Allow Cyber Red-Tape to Strangle Industry

Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) released the following statement on the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee’s (NSTAC) report to President Biden.


Chairman Green Announces First Full Committee Hearing on the Impact of Biden & Mayorkas’ Border Crisis on American Communities

House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) announced the first Full Committee hearing of the 118th Congress, which will focus on the widespread and debilitating impact President Biden and Secretary Mayorkas’ border crisis is having on communities across the United States of America.


Chairman Green Leads Homeland Security Members on First Trip to Southwest Border

This week Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, MD (R-TN) is leading the new and returning members of the House Homeland Security Committee on a “border bootcamp” to the border in El Paso, Texas to get a firsthand look at and be briefed on the daily operations of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Texas State law enforcement partners during President Biden’s current border crisis.


Former FBI Special Agent Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Accepting Bribes Paid by Attorney Linked to Organized Crime Figure

A former FBI special agent was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison for conspiring to accept at least $150,000 in cash bribes and other items of value in exchange for providing sensitive law enforcement information to a corrupt attorney with ties to Armenian organized crime.


Colorado Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Money Laundering Conspiracy

The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Jason Lee Henderson, age 36, formerly of Wray, Colorado, has been sentenced to 28 months in prison for conspiring to commit money laundering.


Fort Bend County District Attorney’s Office Press Release

District Attorney Brian Middleton announced today that Robin Laschae Williams, 32, was arrested for the alleged theft of $30,000 to $150,000 in COVID19 relief and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) disaster funds.