News from March 2023
By EPA Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chair Bob Latta (R-OH), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Doris Matsui (D-CA) expressed disappointment today over the...
By State Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul gave the following remarks at a full committee hearing examining the administration’s disastrous emergency evacuation from Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: DETROIT - A Southfield, Michigan man was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison for his role in distributing over 90,000 doses of Oxycontin, Percocet, and other opioids out of an area medical clinic, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Health Subcommittee markup of five bills.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) today announced a Full Committee markup on 20 pieces of legislation.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today announced a markup of five pieces of legislation.
By EPA Newswire Reports | Mar 10, 2023
United States and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Announce Settlement with City of Gloucester to Upgrade Sewage Treatment Infrastructure
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Thursday, March 9, 2023, the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works held a hearing to address the environmental and public health threats from the Norfolk Southern train derailment and chemical release in East Palestine, Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after President Biden released his FY 2024 budget that raises taxes on small businesses, ignores imminent Medicare cuts, and hands even more money to the IRS...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced a more than $120 million investment from the Inflation Reduction Act to rebuild and restore units of the National Wildlife Refuge System and partnering State Wildlife Management Areas that have been affected by adverse weather events. The investment ...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee members today advanced 13 bipartisan solutions during a Communications and Technology Subcommittee markup.
By EPA Newswire Reports | Mar 10, 2023
EPA Announces Nearly $200 Million to Address Emerging Contaminants in Drinking Water in Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: PRATTVILLE, Ala. -- The FEMA-state Disaster Recovery Center in Sumter County will close permanently March 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: A federal jury in Greenbelt convicted a Maryland man today of preparing false tax returns on behalf of his clients.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
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, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
OVW Fiscal Year 2023 Strengthening Culturally Specific Campus’ Approaches to Address Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, and Stalking Initiative - Solicitation grant opened on March 10.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today an investment of more than $43 million in meat and poultry processing research, innovation and expansion in support of its ongoing efforts to transform the food system at every stage along the supply chain. This investment is funded through the American Rescue Plan and the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI).
By DOL Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
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.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm and National Intelligence Director Avril Haines requesting a briefing regarding the DOE’s assessment that concludes the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely caused by a lab leak in China.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government released an interim staff report titled, “The Weaponization of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC): An Agency’s Overreach to Harass Elon Musk’s Twitter." The report details recently obtained new, nonpublic information that reveals how the federal government weaponized its authority against Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of the company.
