News published on Federal Newswire in March 2023

News from March 2023


Unaware of the danger, painter fatally falls 21 feet after stepping onto unsecured balcony at Cleveland residential construction project

News Release: CLEVELAND - A 51-year-old painting contractor at a residential apartment complex in Cleveland stepped onto a third-floor balcony and it tilted suddenly, causing him to fall 21 feet onto the concrete below. As he lay injured, the balcony slid off its wall mount and landed on top of the painter. He died from his injuries.


EPA Reaches Settlement with Ashtabula, Ohio Company for Alleged Clean Water Act Violations

EPA Reaches Settlement with Ashtabula, Ohio Company for Alleged Clean Water Act Violations


Notice published by Agriculture Department on March 9

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


UPDATE Witnesses Added for Hearing on Afghanistan Emergency Evacuation

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul announced the full Committee will convene a hearing entitled “During and After the Fall of Kabul: Examining the Administration’s Emergency Evacuation from Afghanistan" on Wednesday, March 8th to examine the administration’s disastrous emergency evacuation from Afghanistan. New witnesses have been added.


Release: The text of the following joint statement was agreed upon by the Special Representatives and Envoys for Afghanistan of Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States following their meeting in Paris held Feb. 20, 2023.


Secretary Antony J. Blinken at the 17th Annual International Women of Courage (IWOC) Awards Ceremony

Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. Please take a seat. And it is a special honor for me to be able to say, welcome to the White House. (Applause.) And welcome especially to the 2023 International Women of Courage Awards Ceremony to all of you participating here in person and tuning in from around the world.


Readout of Secretary Raimondo’s Meeting with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

News Release: NEW DELHI - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo met with Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to discuss U.S.-India relations and opportunities for further economic cooperation. The Secretary underscored the importance of the U.S.-India bilateral relationship to the ...


Dover Man Pleads Guilty to Distribution of Fentanyl and Possession with Intent to Distribute Fentanyl

News Release: CONCORD - Tyler Ward, 36, of Dover, pleaded guilty in federal court today to two counts of distributing fentanyl and one count of possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute it, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced.


News Release: 2,700-Year-Old Antiquity Repatriated to Iraqi Government.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis today sentenced Jose Domingo Ordonez-Zometa, a/k/a “Felon," age 33, of Landover Hills, Maryland, to life in federal prison for racketeering and murder in aid of racketeering conspiracies, for committing murder in aid of racketeering, and for conspiracy...


News Release: Washington, D.C. - In anticipation of President Biden’s forthcoming plan to expand government price controls that kill cures, increase taxes, and relies on gimmicks for funding, Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO) issued the following statements...


Chair Rodgers: Our C&T Bills Will Unleash American Innovation and Help us Beat China

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee markup of 13 bills.


News Release: Inmates Receive Additional Sentences for Various Violations While Incarcerated.


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Applying for federal disaster assistance from FEMA will not affect other federal benefits that California survivors may receive.


News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky.- As Eastern Kentuckians continue to recover from last year’s disastrous flooding, more than $158 million in low interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration and direct disaster assistance through FEMA have flowed into communities to help jumpstart the recovery process. Of that amount, FEMA has provided more than $101 million in direct awards to survivors.


Rodgers, Westerman, Graves Statement on H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Natural Resources Committee Chair Bruce Westerman (R-AR), and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statements about H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act.


Mercury poisoning: Long Island thermometer maker's workers sickened by unsafe exposures to toxic metal, faces nearly $200K in penalties

News Release: WESTBURY, NY - Federal workplace safety inspectors have cited a thermometer manufacturer for overexposing their employees to mercury at its West Babylon facility.


Chairs Rodgers, Latta Applaud the Passage of Bill to Enhance the Cybersecurity of American Communications Networks

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta (R-OH) commended the passage of H.R. 1123, the Understanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act, which was passed on the House floor by suspension yesterday...


Crapo Statement on Tried-and-Failed, Tax-and-Spend Budget Proposals

News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on President Biden’s FY2024 budget request...


Former Goldman Sachs Investment Banker Sentenced in $2.7B Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme

News Release: A former managing director of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Goldman Sachs) was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for his role in a multibillion-dollar bribery and money laundering scheme involving Malaysia’s state-owned investment and development fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).