News published on Federal Newswire in March 2023

News from March 2023


DHS-DHS grant application closes on April 14

Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Grant Program - Region 3 grant opened on March 1.


USDOJ-OJP-OVC offers new grant application process starting March 1

OVC FY 2023 Building Capacity of National Crisis Hotlines grant opened on March 1.


Britt on Chinese Communist Party: 'Everything they do is as our adversary'

Sen. Katie Boyd Britt (R-Ala.) called the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) America’s greatest threat and has supported and co-sponsored legislation to hold the CCP accountable for recent actions.


US Department of Labor recovers $330K in back wages for 20 workers denied overtime pay by North Carolina contractor

Release: Employer: ELJ Inc. Investigation site: 133 Batting Cage Trail. Jacksonville, NC 28540. Investigation findings: Investigators with the department’s Wage and Hour Division found the North Carolina general contractor misclassified its employees as independent contractors and paid straight-time rates for ...


Airworthiness Directives; Dassault Aviation Airplanes discussed on Feb. 28 by Transportation Department

The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Tajikistan Foreign Minister Muhriddin

Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


BJS Releases Employment of State and Federal Prisoners Prior to Incarceration, 2016

News Release: The Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs, today released Employment of State and Federal Prisoners Prior to Incarceration, 2016.


Release: Bangladesh. Overview: In 2021, incidents causing injury and death derived from hate-based communal protests and political differences occurred, with some violent extremist group involvement. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina reemphasized Bangladesh’s zero-tolerance policy on terrorism. Terrorist groups increased...


DOS-PAK grant application closes on May 1

Entrepreneurship Technology Training at Karachis Startup Lab! grant opened on March 1.


Country Reports on Terrorism 2021: Uzbekistan

Release: Uzbekistan. Overview: The Taliban takeover of Kabul heightened the Government of Uzbekistan’s concerns about the potential spillover of terrorism from Afghanistan and its Central Asian neighbors, particularly by ISIS-Khorasan Province, as well as Islamic Jihad Union, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Katibat...


Readout of Deputy Secretary Don Graves Meeting with U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Mark Gitenstein

News Release: U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves joined U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Mark Gitenstein in a meeting with Bjoern Seibert, Chief of Staff to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in Brussels on February 28. Deputy Secretary Graves expressed gratitude for the close cooperation ...


News Release: Yesterday, Commerce Deputy Secretary Don Graves met with the European Commission’s Director-General for Trade Sabine Weyand. The two leaders discussed U.S.-EU cooperation on the Ukraine crisis, including continued development and implementation of export control actions against Russa and Belarus. During ...


Notice of Request To Renew an Approved Information Collection: Sanitation SOPs and Pathogen Reduction/HACCP discussed on Feb. 28 by Agriculture Department

The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Feb. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


EPA Announces Most Energy-Efficient Manufacturing Plants of 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that 86 U.S. manufacturing plants earned the agency’s ENERGY STAR certification in 2022, a designation reserved for manufacturing plants in the top 25% of energy efficiency in their sector. Together, these plants saved over ...


U.S.-Uzbekistan Relations

Release: Since establishing diplomatic relations in 1992, the United States and Uzbekistan have developed a broad-based relationship, cooperating in such areas as border and regional security programs, economic relations, political and civil society issues, and English language training. Uzbekistan is important...


Laconia Man Sentenced to 60 Months in Federal Prison for Methamphetamine Distribution Conspiracy and Firearm Charges

News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Jane E. Young announces that Dylan Miles, 29, previously of Laconia, was sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment today following his sentencing for participating in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy and for his unlawful possession of firearms.


Man Sentenced to More than 5 Years in Federal Prison for Supplying Heroin to Waterbury Drug Ring

News Release: WATERBURY, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JESUS NIEVES, also known as “Pop," 39, formerly of Waterbury, Connecticut, and Springfield, Massachusetts, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for supplying heroin to a member of a Waterbury-area drug trafficking ring.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today wrote Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra regarding President Biden’s plan to kick 2.7 million Americans off their health insurance plans. The members issued the following statement...


Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings from January 23 and February 1, 2023

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings from January 23 and Feb. 1, 2023.