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Stating that "time is of the greatest essence," American Legion National Commander James W. "Bill" Oxford wrote to President Joseph Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken and called on the administration to speed up the processing of visa...

Celebrating Earth Day every day, the REMADE Institute, a public-private partnership established by the United States Department of Energy, today issued its fifth Request for Proposals, representing a $45 million investment in the research,...

FOX Television Stations (FTS) will present a series of nationwide town halls with elected officials, it was jointly announced today by FTS Chief Executive Officer Jack Abernethy and Fox Corporation Executive Vice President and Head of Government...

Senator Oroho is stepping down from his position as Co-chair of the New Jersey Legislative Manufacturing Caucus and Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean appoints Senator Michael Testa (R-1) to assume the responsibility.  ...

Today, the XR Association (XRA) ? the trade association representing the broad ecosystem that powers the virtual, augmented, and mixed reality industries ? submitted for the public record a statement advocating for the inclusion of immersive...

On 20 April 2021 at 14:00 EDT, Japonica Partners Chairman and CEO, Paul B. Kazarian, will testify at the US Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB) public hearing on government financial reporting models.   Japonica's Kazarian will speak and...

Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper is honored to have received federal funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative totaling nearly $300,000. This grant will help the group and its partners lead an effort across...

The  United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has tapped a consortium led by Cargill and including Ausvet, Heifer International, and the International Poultry Council (IPC) to improve livestock management and combat the threat of...

Protecting one of our most vulnerable populations, babies and young children, is among the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's highest priorities. Today, we're announcing a new action plan, Closer to Zero, that sets forth our approach to reducing...

Today, the Volcker Alliance will host a conversation in partnership with the Atlanta Film Festival and the new documentary CARTERLAND, which examines the life and presidency of Jimmy Carter. The virtual panel, "Profiles in Moral & Ethical Leadership:...

The American Public Works Association (APWA) applauds President Joe Biden for introducing his American Jobs Plan. This robust 8-year, $2.25 trillion proposal is very encouraging to the more than 30,000 members of APWA who are responsible for...

The Western Fire Chiefs Association (WFCA) announced today that it will host the first-ever Wildfire Prevention Summit on May 4, 2021. This daylong, virtual event will cover the four primary causes of wildfire ignitions (arson, accidental, roadside...

The Accreditation Council for Medical Affairs (ACMA) conducted a congressional briefing on Wednesday, March 24 to discuss the important and growing role pharmaceutical Medical Affairs and Medical Science Liaison (MSL) professionals play in educating...

Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk released the following statement after today's nomination by President Joe Biden of Bill Nelson to serve as the 14th NASA administrator:...

Chicago-based workforce non-profit Manufacturing Renaissance is pleased to announce that Erica Swinney Staley, Executive Director of the industry-leading career technical training and advocacy organization, has been appointed by the National Skills...

Family Research Council today stated the U.S. Senate's confirmation of Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services by a vote of 50-49 makes abundantly clear the Biden administration and the Democratic Party are using health care and the...

Ionomr Innovations Inc.'s breakthrough Aemion+tm technology has been identified by the Shell GameChanger AcceleratorTM Powered by NREL (GCxN) for its potential to make a significant difference in the development of technologies to de-carbonize the...

To ensure women-owned firms receive their fair share of federal government contracts, today, the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce ( http://www.uswcc.org ) calls on President Biden to sign a single Executive Order requiring small business suppliers...

On January 20th 2021, Chike Aguh departed the board of directors of Baltimore's Code in the Schools. On the same date, he was appointed as the Chief Innovation Officer at the United States Department of Labor. Aguh had served on the board of Code In...

Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions (HELP) held a nomination hearing for Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). Today, the Senate Finance Committee will hold...

ArchiveSocial, the leading provider of social media archiving software for government entities, law enforcement agencies, and K-12 school districts, announced today they received a contract award from the National Archives and Records Administration...

COVID Collaborative and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, today released a first-of-its-kind national poll announcing that 86% of Americans say they would test themselves using at-home rapid antigen tests to stop the spread of COVID-19....

Whitaker B. Irvin, Jr., CEO of Q Hydrogen Commercialization (http://www.qhydrogen.com), a Park City, Utah, based company that has developed a new technology for turning water into clean, efficient and renewable hydrogen for use in energy and...

The Appraisal Foundation's Appraisal Standards Board (ASB) announced today that the current edition of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) will be extended by one year. The 2020-2021 USPAP will now be effective until...

The U.S. Department of Commerce has issued preliminary determinations indicating a significant increase in the antidumping and countervailing duties applicable to Indian imports of stainless steel flanges, a move that will ensure fair competition for...

The U.S. Partnership for Assured Electronics (UPSAE) and Advanced Technology International (ATI) are proud to announce the creation of the Defense Electronics Consortium (DEC). This consortium is a collaboration of the country's leading industry and...

Livinguard announced today that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the hygiene-technology company's patented self-disinfecting textile (EPA Reg N. 95700-2). Livinguard's new textile is effective against Gram negative and Gram...

As the tax season approaches, you may have questions about filing your federal, state and business taxes in 2021. Economic Impact Payments, tax credits and other relief provided in 2020 have many people wondering how to file during the pandemic. Use...

According to a 2019 statement from the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), 252 counties in the rural United States are without a single health care provider, and a specialty such as urology can only be found in 38 percent of all U.S....

Paralyzed Veterans of America Executive Director Carl Blake released the following statement on the Senate confirmation of Denis McDonough as the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA):...

Duality Technologies, a leading provider of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) based on Homomorphic Encryption (HE), today announced it has been awarded a $14.5M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) DPRIVE program....

FCA US LLC (FCA US) today announces that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan to resolve its investigation into past misconduct of certain former FCA US employees involving the UAW-Chrysler...

Building off of executive actions addressing equity signed on his first day in office, President Joe Biden took further action today on issues related to racial equity and systemic racism. On the issue of housing, the president has taken action...

CBC Mortgage Agency (CBCMA), a nationally chartered housing finance agency and a leading source of down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, welcomed the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's decision to allow individuals...

On behalf of the more than 2,000 member locations of NATSO, the national association representing the truckstop and travel plaza industry, today urged the U.S. Senate to quickly confirm Pete Buttigieg as the U.S. Secretary of Transportation....

On his first day in office, President Joe Biden took executive action to advance a racial equity agenda that aligns with U.S. Conference of Mayors' (USCM) priority initiatives of dismantling systemic racism and ensuring the human and civil rights of...

In recognition of the four concurrent crises facing our nation, President Joe Biden took executive action today on issues including racial equity, immigration, the ongoing COVID pandemic and climate change. On the issue of climate change, the...

The ESOP Association looks forward to working with President Joe Biden and his incoming Administration to make employee ownership available to the vast majority of privately employed Americans. The ESOP Association believes that employee ownership...

The Last Prisoner Project, (LPP) a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization dedicated to cannabis criminal justice reform, is thrilled to see at least 10 individuals incarcerated on cannabis related offenses will be released from federal prison...

McLaren Heath Care has entered into a Settlement Agreement and Memorandum of Agreement with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the United States Attorney's Offices for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan to settle concerns...

Con Edison applauds today's federal court decision striking down the rollback of historic greenhouse gas emission regulations. Con Edison was proud to be one of the litigants in this historic case, and we are eager to get to work with Congress and...

The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) applauds the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) decision to effectively remove the "X-waiver" requirement for physicians, expanding their ability to utilize medication-assisted...

American Jewish Committee (AJC) welcomes today's House passage of the impeachment resolution and reiterates our unqualified condemnation of the actions of President Donald J. Trump, which, by any measure, run counter to the democratic values we hold...

Leaders of the National Press Club and National Press Club Journalism Institute are calling for criminal investigations into those responsible for violence and threats against journalists during last week's attack on the U.S. Capitol....

Today, more than 200 Civic Alliance member companies issue a joint statement in response to this week's attacks on our democracy:...

Technical Resources International, Inc. (TRI) has been awarded the Clinical Studies Network (CSN) Clinical Trial Planning and Execution (CTPE) Contract in support of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), which is part of...

The Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic fraternal benefit society, strongly supports the U.S. State Department's decision to list Nigeria as a "country of particular concern" under the Religious Freedom Act of 1998. Announced on...

Below is a statement by U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) President Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and USCM CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran on President-elect Joe Biden's selection of former Mayor Pete Buttigieg to serve as the Secretary of the...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the NROL-44 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 on Dec. 10 at 8:09 p.m. EST. To date ULA has launched 142 times with 100 percent...

Children's Health Defense (CHD) is raising significant concerns based on the briefing released for the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting scheduled Thursday, December 10th, to review the Pfizer coronavirus...