WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has released the following public communication dated March 3, 2025, from Holly Porter, executive director of the Delmarva Chicken Association, Georgetown, Delaware: * * * To: United States Department of Agriculture Animal & Plant Health inspection Service Station 2C-10.16 4700 River Road, Unit 25 Riverdale, MD 20737 RE: Payment of Indemnity and Compensation for Highly Pathogenic Avian In  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government released the following written testimony by Elizabeth Price Foley, a law professor at the Florida International University and of counsel to BakerHostetler LLP, from a March 4, 2025, hearing entitled "Legislative Reforms to End Lawfare by State and Local Prosecutors": * * * Chairman Roy, Ranking Member Scanlon, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testify on the need  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Hoyer, Maryland Delegation Members, Governor Moore Release Statement on Future of FBI WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05), U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Governor Wes Moore, and U.S. Representatives Glenn Ivey (MD-04), Kweisi Mfume (MD-07), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Sarah Elfreth (MD-03), April McClain Delaney (MD-06), and Johnny Olszewski (  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Maryland Delegation Members, Governor Moore Release Statement on Future of FBI Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks (both D-Md.), Governor Wes Moore, and U.S. Representatives Steny Hoyer, Glenn Ivey, Kweisi Mfume, Jamie Raskin, Sarah Elfreth, April McClain Delaney, and Johnny Olszewski (all D-Md.), released the following statement on the future of the FBI headquarters:   more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA's EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth's Electrojets Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14.  Taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, the EZIE mission's trio of small satellites will fly in a pearls-on-a-string configuration approximately 260 to 370 miles above Earth'  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released the following public communication dated Jan. 12, 2022, from 15 attorneys general: * * * ATTORNEYS GENERAL OF NEW YORK, CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, ILLINOIS, IOWA, MAINE, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, NEW JERSEY, OREGON, PENNSYLVANIA, RHODE ISLAND, VERMONT, AND WASHINGTON To: Dr. Steven Cliff, Deputy Administrator National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 1200 New   more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The U.S. Senate conducted two committee hearings on March 14, 2025: * * * BUSINESS MEETING Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Michael Faulkender, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. * * * NOMINATION Committee on Finance: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nomination of Mehmet Oz, of Pennsylvania, to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, after the nominee, testified and  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service has released the following public communication dated March 5, 2025, from FMI - The Food Industry Association, Arlington, Virginia: * * * To: Rachel Edelstein - Assistant Administrator Office of Policy and Program Development, Food Safety Inspection Service U.S. Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250 * To: Peter Koufopoulos - Deputy Director for Animal Derived  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service has released the following public communication dated March 5, 2025, from the National Confectioners Association: * * * To: U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service 1400 Independence Avenue SW Jamie L. Whitten Building, Room 350-E Washington, D.C. 20250-3700 RE: Docket (FSIA-2024-0021) Food Date Labeling, Request for Information * * * The National Confectioners Associat  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service has released the following public communication dated March 5, 2025, from NoVasta: * * * To: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service 1400 Independence Avenue SW, Mailstop 3758 Washington, DC 20250-3700 Docket No. FSIS-2024-0021 Re: Comments Responding to the Request for Information on Food Date Labeling * * * These comments are submitted in response to the USDA's Food   more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Van Hollen-Collins Legislation to Restore DC Funding Passes Senate Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) released the following statement regarding the Senate's passage of legislation he and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) authored to fix the Republican funding bill provision that caps D.C.'s use of its own local funding : "The District of Columbia should be able to make its own decisi  more