WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources and Biotechnology released the following testimony by Robert Gordon, senior vice president of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, from a March 6, 2025, hearing on the Fix Our Forests Act (H.R. 471): * * * Chairman Marshall and Ranking Member Bennet, thank you for holding today's hearing to examine the Fix Our Forests Act, H.R. 471, introduced by Hou  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The Senate Special Committee on Aging released the following testimony by Malik Burnett, vice chair of the Public Policy Committee at the American Society of Addiction Medicine, from a Feb. 26, 2025, hearing entitled "Combating the Opioid Epidemic": * * * Chairman Scott, Ranking Member Gillibrand, and esteemed Members of the Special Committee on Aging, thank you for inviting me to participate in today's critically important hearing. My name is Dr. Malik Burnett. I am a  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release: * * * Baltimore Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Role in Maryland Unemployment Insurance Scheme Defendant obtained people's personal information to file false and fraudulent unemployment insurance claims. Baltimore, Maryland - Today, U.S. District Judge Julie R. Rubin sentenced Devante Smith, 30, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 57 months in prison followed by three y  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 17 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: * * * Beaver County Man Jailed 10 Years for Trafficking Heroin and Cocaine HARRISBURG -- Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that a Beaver County man was sentenced last week in federal court to 10 years in prison for his role in a criminal organization distributing large quantities of cocaine and heroin in and around Beaver County. Kijana Lowe, 27, of Aliquippa, previously plead  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released the following public communication dated March 7, 2025, from the Center for Survivor Agency and Justice, National Coerced Debt Working Group and National Consumer Law Center. Here are excerpts: * * * Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Fair Credit Reporting Act (Regulation V); Identity Theft and Coerced Debt Comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regarding Docket No. CFPB-2024-0057 by the Na  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 17, 2025 NAVY Applied Technology Inc.,* King George, Virginia (N0017325D2419-N0017325F2415); Cutlass Systems Engineering LLC,* Laurel, Maryland (N0017325D2420-N0017325F2416); Envisioneering Inc.,* Alexandria, Virginia (N0017325D2421-N0017325F2417); Future Technologies Inc.,* King George, Virginia (N0017325D2422-N0017325F2418); Intecon LLC,* Fredericksburg, Virginia (N0017325D2423- N00  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Rep. Sarah Elfreth, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Elfreth Joins Maryland Delegation, Other Democrats in Letter to DHS and FEMA WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth (D-MD 03) joined Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and 65 of their Congressional colleagues in a bipartisan, bicameral letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Acting FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton. The letter pressed for further explanation of the F  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration has released the following public communication dated March 7, 2025, from the American Thoracic Society: * * * To: Sara Brenner, M.D., M.P.H. Acting Commissioner, Food and Drug Administration Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, Maryland 20993-0002 Docket No. FDA-2023-N-4976 for "Pulse Oximeters for Medical Purposes--Non-Clinical and Clinical Performance   more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Hoyer Statement on the Passing of Former Congresswoman Nita Lowey WASHINGTON, DC - Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) released the following statement today on the passing of former U.S. Representative Nita Lowey: "Today, we lost a great New Yorker, a great American, and a great leader: my friend former Congresswoman Nita Lowey. While we mourn her today, we also give thanks for all her work to  more

ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, March 18 -- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources issued the following news on March 17, 2025: * * * Maryland DNR 2024 Fall Oyster Survey Records Solid Reproduction for Fifth Consecutive Year Oyster populations in the Chesapeake Bay are faring well, according to preliminary results of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources' annual Fall Oyster Survey. After a remarkable year for oyster reproduction in 2023, the survey's 2024 spatfall intensity index, a meas  more

PASADENA, California, March 17 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * 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. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, carrying NASA's EZIE spacecraft into orbit. Credit: SpaceX Taking off from Vandenberg Spa  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * New Modeling Assesses Age of Next Target Asteroid for NASA's Lucy Although NASA's Lucy spacecraft's upcoming encounter with the asteroid Donaldjohanson is primarily a mission rehearsal for later asteroid encounters, a new paper suggests that this small, main belt asteroid may have some surprises of its own. New modeling indicates that Donaldjohanson may have been formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent aster  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Rep. Johnny Olszewski, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Olszewski Issues Statement on Senate Passage of Continuing Resolution (Washington, DC) - Congressman Johnny Olszewski issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate passed a Continuing Resolution that will keep the government open and funded through the end of September. The measure previously passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is expected to be signed into law tonight by Presid  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, March 17 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: * * * Report: Pa. Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Section Charged More Medicaid Fraud Cases than any other State in the 2024 Fiscal Year AG Sunday's Medicaid Fraud Control Section ranked No. 3 in criminal convictions nationwide; a few recent cases are highlighted HARRISBURG - Attorney General Dave Sunday announced the release of an annual report that ranks his office's Me  more