News published on Federal Newswire in March 2023

News from March 2023


USDOJ-OJP-OVC offers new grant application process starting March 10

OVC FY 2023 Enhanced Collaborative Model (ECM) Task Force to Combat Human Trafficking grant opened on March 10.


Maryland Man Sentenced to Prison for Defrauding Medicaid in a Scheme Involving Personal Care Services

News Release: WASHINGTON - Joseph Tamjong, 51, of Lanham, Maryland, was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for stealing more than $700,000 from the D.C. Medicaid program. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, FBI Special Agent in Charge Wayne A. Jacobs, of the Washington Field Office’s...


TSA prepared for spring break travel season across West Virginia

Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va.The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is prepared for spring break travel in and out of West Virginia airports.


News Release: PHOENIX - Federal and contractor leadership highlighted progress in EM ’s liquid waste treatment mission and lessons learned in their work during back-to-back panels at the 2023 Waste Management Symposia.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Full Committee markup of 20 bills.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Full Committee markup of 20 bills.


Hearing Wrap Up: Artificial Intelligence Poses Great Risks but Safe Integration Will Yield Positive Results

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-On Oct. 29, 2013, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will lead a discussion on progress made and challenges ahead in improving diversity and inclusion in the military at a conference hosted by the German Marshall Fund entitled “Mission Critical: Diversity and Security."


Risch, Shaheen, Menendez, Durbin, Ricketts Release Joint Statement on Georgian Parliament’s “Foreign Influence” Legislation

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ...


Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor

News Release: SHIRLEY MEEDER. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 7-2-4 & M-1 Administrative Housing. “Shirley, run home! Run straight home!" These are the words I remember. I was at my friend’s home, when her father gave me this warning. I lived only about three blocks from my friend’s home, but the distance seemed longer...


News Release: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana announced that Lucian Boboia, age 49, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady after pleading guilty to obtaining a controlled substance, including fentanyl, by fraud or deception.


USDOJ-OJP-OVW grant application closes on May 1

OVW Fiscal Year 2023 Tribal Sexual Assault Services Program - Solicitation grant opened on March 10.


Mayorkas: 'DHS is fundamentally a department of partnerships'

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released the Fiscal Year 2023 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program Notice of Funding Opportunity.


Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records discussed on March 9 by Interior Department

The US Interior Department published a three page notice on March 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, James Lankford (R-OK), and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced bipartisan legislation to enhance the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to combat human trafficking. The legislation...


NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Renews Partnerships With State, County

News Release: ROCKVILLE, Md. - The Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the state of Maryland and Montgomery County, Maryland, have renewed their partnership in support of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), a collaborative hub where industry, government and academic experts work together to solve pressing cybersecurity challenges.


DOI-BLM offers new grant application process starting March 10

Bureau of Land Management IIJA Alaska Plant Conservation and Restoration Management Program grant opened on March 10.


Secretary Marty Walsh addresses President Biden’s fiscal year 2024 budget

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Biden-Harris administration today released President Biden’s budget for fiscal year 2024. The budget details a blueprint to grow the economy from the bottom up and middle out, lower costs for families, protect and strengthen Medicare and Social Security, and reduce the deficit by ensuring the wealthy and big corporations pay their fair share - all while ensuring no one making less than $400,000 per year pays more in taxes.


Rodgers, Johnson Announce Hearing on East Palestine Train Derailment with EPA, State, and Local Officials

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Bill Johnson (R-OH) today announced a subcommittee hearing to address the environmental response to the train derailment in East Palestine, ...


News Release: Proposed Budget Supports Department of Commerce’s Mission of Making America More Competitive


Ag Budget Views and Estimates Letter Advances Out of Committee Letter Highlights the Farm Safety Net

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Committee on Agriculture convened a business meeting to consider its budget views and estimates letter for the 2024 fiscal year. After the letter was reported favorably out of Committee, Chairman Glenn “GT" Thompson issued the following statement...