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 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

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, March 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana issued the following news release: * * * Former Operations Manager Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Stealing Over $2.5 Million from Employer, Covering Up the Scheme with Tax Fraud EVANSVILLE-- Marcie Jean Doty, 47, of Evansville, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to wire fraud, failure to fil  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Federal Trade Commission issued the following news release: * * * FTC Staff Reaffirm Opposition to Proposed Indiana Hospital Merger Today, Federal Trade Commission staff again urged the Indiana Department of Health to deny Union Hospital, Inc. (Union Health) and Terre Haute Regional Hospital, L.P.'s (THRH) application to merge. FTC staff said Union Health and THRH's second attempt to merge under a proposed certificate of public advantage, also known as a COPA, pr  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has released the following public communication dated March 3, 2025, from All Our Energy and 15 collaborators. Here are excerpts: * * * Comments in Response to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the Construction and Operations Plan submitted by Vineyard Mid-Atlantic, LLC. (Jan. 14, 2025) Docket No. BOEM 2025-0002 * * * I. Intr  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 -- The Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Assistance issued the following news release on March 17, 2025: * * * SBA Relief Still Available to Illinois Small Businesses and Private Nonprofits Affected by the Orion Parkview Apartment Fire Deadline to apply for economic injury loans approaching ATLANTA - The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is reminding small businesses and private nonprofit (PNP) organizations in Illinois of the April 15, 2025, dead  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Todd Young, R-Indiana, issued the following news release: * * * Young, Sheehy Introduce Bill to Protect American Energy from Eco-terrorists WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Tim Sheehy (R-Mont.) reintroduced the Safe and Secure Transportation of American Energy Act to protect American energy from eco-terrorists. Current federal law applies criminal penalties for "knowingly and willfully damaging or destroying" pipelines, but eco-terrorists and o  more