WASHINGTON, July 4 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following fact sheet (No. R44865) on July 1, 2022 regarding Juneteenth by reference and instruction librarian Erin M. Smith. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. It is also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Juneteenth Independence Day, and Black Independence Day. On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, TX, and  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 5 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. RL33476) on July 1, 2022, entitled "Israel: Background and U.S. Relations": * * * (Continued from Part 1 of 4) U.S.-Israel Security Cooperation U.S.-Israel security cooperation - a critical part of the bilateral relationship - is multifaceted. U.S. law requires the executive branch to take certain actions to preserve Israel's "qualitative military edge," or QME over neighboring militaries, and  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 7 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R46906) on July 6, 2022, entitled "Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Procurement Program" by Robert Jay Dilger, American national government senior specialist, and R. Corinne Blackford, small business and economic development policy analyst. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY The Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) Procurement Program is intended to provide SDVOSBs  more PR

WASHINGTON, July 7 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R46906) on July 6, 2022, entitled "Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business Procurement Program": * * * (Continued from Part 1 of 2) SDVOSB Contracting Data As shown in Table 2, the dollar amount of contracts awarded to SDVOSBs has generally increased from year-to-year, and the 3% government-wide SDVOSB procurement goal was met for the first time in FY2012 and in each fiscal year since the more PR

WASHINGTON, July 8 (TNSconf) -- The National Grocers Association issued the following news: Renowned public policy analyst Bruce Mehlman will serve as the keynote speaker for the National Grocers Association's (NGA) Executive Conference and Public Policy Summit, the premier event for c-suite executives and their leadership teams. Respected food safety attorney Bill Marler also joins the speaker lineup to address attendees on improved food safety procedures and recall communications. The Executi more PR

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis issued the following testimony by Anita Desikan, senior analyst of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, involving a remote hearing on April 29, 2022, entitled "Ensuring Scientific Integrity at Our Nation's Public Health Agencies": * * * Thank you, Chairman Clyburn, Ranking Member Scalise, and Members of the Subcommittee for holding this important hearing on scientific integrity a more PR

BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 8 (TNSper) -- The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum issued the following news release: Ronald L. Sargent, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, announced that the Board of Directors unanimously elected the following new members: B. Marc Allen, Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development at The Boeing Company; Vlad Barbalat, President and Chief Investment Officer of Liber more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, July 8 (TNSawa) -- Operation HOPE issued the following news release on July 7, 2022: Operation HOPE, Inc., the nation's leading non-profit dedicated to financial literacy, today announced entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist John Hope Bryant has received several awards recognizing his leadership and commitment to economic empowerment for underserved communities. Bryant is the founder, chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, which has served over four million people in the  more PR

NEW WILMINGTON, Pennsylvania, July 6 (TNSconf) -- Westminster College issued the following news: The Westminster College Analyst Program's Summer Speaker Series will feature Deborah Platt Majoras '85, the recently-retired chief legal officer for Procter & Gamble (P&G) and former chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in a remote event at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 19. Majoras, a current member and past chair of the Westminster College Board of Trustees, will discuss navigating executiv more PR

DALLAS, Texas, July 8 (TNSper) -- The George W. Bush Presidential Center issued the following news release on July 7, 2022: The George W. Bush Institute today announced that Executive Director Holly Kuzmich will be stepping down later this year. David J. Kramer, who currently serves as the Bradford M. Freeman Managing Director of Global Policy, will step into the role upon Kuzmich's departure. The Bush Institute is the non-partisan public policy arm of the George W. Bush Presidential Center. K more PR