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By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Following the release of the Congressional Budget Office's updated baseline projections, Glenn "GT" Thompson, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, issued the following statement...

By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Austin, TX - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the below statement in observance of the twelve-year anniversary of the murder of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Jaime Zapata. In 2011, members of the Mexican cartel, Los Zetas, ambushed Agent Zapata and...

By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: USA Today. Like many Americans, residents of my home state of Wyoming could not understand how a Chinese spy balloon could lazily and brazenly pass over their heads. They are rightfully angry that an adversary’s spying platform was able to violate and then linger over U.S. airspace for an entire week.

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing titled “President Biden's Border Crisis Is a Public Health Crisis."

By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing: “President Biden's Border Crisis Is A Public Health Crisis."

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray as part of the panel’s investigation into the bureau’s alleged misuse of domestic violent extremism resources for "political purposes," after a leaked internal memo revealed the FBI had efforts underway to identify and treat some Catholics as violent extremists.

By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on countering illicit fentanyl trafficking. The witnesses included The Honorable Todd Robinson, assistant secretary of State for ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: FORT VALLEY (Feb. 15, 2023) – Today, in recognition of Black History Month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 4 Administrator Daniel Blackman and USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Georgia State Executive Director Arthur Tripp co-hosted a roundtable discussion at Fort Valley State ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 14, 2023) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced today $19,407,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will go to Delaware to address emerging contaminants, like Per-and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water. A total investment of $2 ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Dallas - El día de hoy, la Agencia de Protección Ambiental de los Estados Unidos (EPA, por sus siglas en inglés), en coordinación con el Banco de Desarrollo de América del Norte (NADBank), anunció el financiamiento de 11 proyectos por un total de USD$791,225 que se llevarán a cabo a lo largo de los estados ...

By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Austin, TX - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul released the below statement in observance of the twelve-year anniversary of the murder of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent Jaime Zapata. In 2011, members of the Mexican cartel, Los Zetas, ambushed Agent Zapata and...

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at hearing to consider the nomination of Daniel Werfel to be Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 15, 2023) – On Monday Feb. 13, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $26,676,000 from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to address emerging contaminants, like Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in drinking water in Tennessee. This ...

By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing titled “President Biden's Border Crisis Is a Public Health Crisis."
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, John Barrasso (R-WY), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Jim Risch (R-ID) introduced the Nuclear Fuel Security Act (NFSA). The bipartisan legislation ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing: “President Biden's Border Crisis Is A Public Health Crisis."
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Michael Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing titled “President Biden's Border Crisis Is A Public Health Crisis."

By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing titled “President Biden's Border Crisis Is a Public Health Crisis."
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: “EPA Region 5’s number one priority is – and will always be – the health and safety of communities across the region. That’s why as soon as EPA was notified of the Norfolk Southern train derailment on Friday, Feb. 3, EPA personnel were on-site by 2 a.m. Saturday morning to assist with air monitoring. ...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 15, 2023
News Release: PHILADELPHIA (Feb. 14, 2023) – Capital Region Water will make substantial upgrades to the sewer and stormwater systems that serves the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania area under a proposed modified consent decree announced today with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.