WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for Feb. 19, 2025 ARMY AECOM-B&V Middle East JV, Roanoke, Virginia (W912ER-25-D-0001); Baker Jacobs JV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (W912ER-25-D-0002); EXP Federal Inc., Chicago, Illinois (W912ER-25-D-0003); Mason & Hanger-CDM Smith, a JV, Lexington, Kentucky (W912ER-25-D-0004); Page Southerland Page Inc., Washington, D.C. (W912ER-25-D-0005); Tetra Tech Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts (W912ER-25-D  more

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Feb. 19 -- Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued the following news release: * * * Drummond urges U.S. Senate to close deadly fentanyl loophole OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 19, 2025) - Attorney General Gentner Drummond is leading efforts to combat the fentanyl crisis by calling on the U.S. Senate to pass crucial legislation to permanently close a dangerous drug trafficking loophole. "The fentanyl epidemic has devastated Oklahoma families and communities across ou  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- The House Natural Resources Committee issued a report (H.Rpt. 118-869) on the Flatside Wilderness Additions Act (H.R. 3971), which aims to designate the Flatside-Bethune Wilderness in the Ouachita National Forest. The report was advanced by Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Arkansas, on Dec. 12, 2024. Here are excerpts: * * * Purpose of the Legislation The purpose of H.R. 3971 is to designate the Flatside- Bethune Wilderness in the Ouachita National Forest, and for other purpose  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: * * * Lankford Leads Bill to Stop Drug Smuggling at the Southern Border WASHINGTON, DC - Senator James Lankford (R-OK), Chairman on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs SubcommitteeonBorder Management, Federal Workforce and Regulatory Affairs, introduced the Border Enforcement, Security, and Trade (BEST) Facilitation Act to support border law enforcement by providing additional personnel to sc  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- The White House issued the following news release: * * * President Trump Announces Appointments to the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs Alex Meyer will join the White House as a Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Meyer previously served as the Deputy Political Director for the Trump-Vance 2024 Campaign directly managing President Trump's victorious operations in the battleground states of  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: * * * RELEASE: Mullin, Cortez Masto Reintroduce Bipartisan Bill to Make it Easier for Indian Health Services to Recruit and Retain Doctors Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) reintroduced their bipartisan legislation to make it easier for Indian Health Services (IHS) to recruit and retain medical workers. Specifically, this legislation, the  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- The Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee released the following written testimony by Mike Ring, president and CEO of Old Glory Bank, from a Feb. 5, 2025, hearing entitled "Investigating the Real Impacts of Debanking in America": * * * Chairman Scott, Ranking Member Warren, and members of the Banking Committee, thank you for allowing me to share how Old Glory Bank, launched from Elmore City, OK, in April 2023, became a market solution to debanking. I am ho  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released the following written testimony by Dan Yates, executive director of the Ground Water Protection Council, from a Feb. 12, 2025, hearing entitled "Advancing Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration Technologies and Ensuring Effective Implementation of the USE IT Act." USE IT Act is the Utilizing Significant Emissions With Innovative Technologies Act. * * * Thank you, Madame Chairman Capito, Ranking Member Whit  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Surface Transportation Board issued the following notice (Docket No. FD 36835) entitled "OPSEU Pension Plan Trust Fund, Jaguar Transport Holdings LLC and Jaguar Rail Holdings LLC - Continuance in Control Exemption - Kansas City West Bottoms Railroad LLC": * * * OPSEU Pension Plan Trust Fund (OPTrust), Jaguar Transport Holdings, LLC (JTH), and Jaguar Rail Holdings, LLC (JRH, and collectively with OPTrust and JTH, Jaguar), each a non  more