Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 2/10/24

2/12 - As part of President Biden’s American Climate Corps, USDA Launches New Working Lands Climate Corps to Train Future Conservation and Climate Leaders on Climate-Smart Agriculture (USDA; direct to website)

2/12 - White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Releases Updated Critical and Emerging Technologies List (WH/OSTP; direct to list)

2/13 - Infographic — Ukraine Security Assistance: Contract Actions & Industrial Base Investment (DOD; direct to infographic)

2/13 - Biden-Harris Administration expands EPA program to bring wastewater services to 150 more underserved communities across rural America as part of Investing in America agenda (EPA; direct to info page)

2/13 - USDA releases 2022 Census of Agriculture data (NASS; direct to report page; see also, secretary’s statement)

2/14 - USDA Agricultural Projections to 2033 (ERS; direct to report page)

2/14 - Updated: Incident at National Archives Rotunda Closes Galleries to Public (NARA; see also, 2/15 follow-up)

2/14 - Fact Sheet: Treasury Actions to Enhance Financial Transparency and Combat Illicit Finance (Treas, with links to reports)

2/14 - Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Releases Annual Agency Equity Action Plans to Further Advance Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government (WH; direct to plans page – note that Treas report link is broken)

2/14 - OSTP Issues Updated Guidance to Support a Secure and Fair Research Ecosystem (WH/OSTP)

2/15 - DOD Releases Resilient and Healthy Defense Communities Strategy (DOD; direct to strategy)

2/15 - Amache National Historic Site Formally Established as America’s Newest National Park (DOI)

2/15 - Justice Department Conducts Court-Authorized Disruption of Botnet Controlled by the Russian Federation’s Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff (GRU) (DOJ)

2/15 - EPA releases 2023 power plant emissions data (EPA; direct to data page)

2/15 - FTC Proposes New Protections to Combat AI Impersonation of Individuals (FTC)

2/15 - World Ocean Atlas 2023 (NCEI; direct to website)

2/15 - New NIST Database of ‘Forever Chemicals’ Will Help Scientists Monitor Environmental Pollution (NIST; direct to database page and user guide)

2/15 - The Biden-Harris Administration Launches the Federal Program Inventory to Make Federal Spending More Transparent and Accessible (WH/OMB; direct to website)

2/16 - FCC Adopts Rules to Empower Consumers to Stop Robocalls & Robotexts (FCC)

Information below is from congress.gov. Date listed is date signed into law, and the description is an abbreviated version of bill summary available on that website.

None this week

2/12 - Evaluation of DoD Efforts to Mitigate Foreign Influence When Foreign Investors Acquire Land or Property in Close Proximity to U.S. Military Facilities (DOD)

2/12 - Material Loss Review of Heartland Tri-State Bank (Fed Board)

2/15 - Evaluation of Issues Surrounding Inmate Deaths in Federal Bureau of Prisons Institutions (DOJ)

2/15 - Gaps in Sponsor Screening and Followup Raise Safety Concerns for Unaccompanied Children (HHS)

2/16 - The Department Needs to Strengthen Its Ethics Oversight for USPTO Patent Examiners (DOC)

2/12 - Online Extremism: More Complete Information Needed about Hate Crimes that Occur on the Internet (GAO)

2/13 - Puerto Rico Disasters: Progress Made, but the Recovery Continues to Face Challenges (GAO)

2/14 - DHS Employee Misconduct: Actions Needed to Better Assess Differences in Supervisor and Non-Supervisor Discipline (GAO)

2/15 - The Nation's Fiscal Health: Road Map Needed to Address Projected Unsustainable Debt Levels (GAO)

2/13 - Immigration and Customs Enforcement Operational Use of Publicly Available Information Including Social Media Information for Law Enforcement Investigations (DHS Pubs Library)

2/13 - House impeaches Alejandro Mayorkas, first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in almost 150 years (via CNN; see also, president’s statement)

2/14 - Democrat Tom Suozzi flips George Santos’ seat in Congress (via AP)

2/14 - Emails Show Border Patrol's Widespread Use Of Anti-Immigrant Slur (via HuffPost)

2/14 - Russia’s Advances on Space-Based Nuclear Weapon Draw U.S. Concerns (via NYT)

2/14 - After border bill failure, ICE considers mass releases to close budget gap (via Washington Post)

2/15 - Special counsel charges FBI informant with lying to the bureau about Hunter and Joe Biden (via NBC News, with link to source document)

2/15 - Biden’s lawyers forcefully protested Hur report before its release (via Washington Post, with letter to DOJ and DOJ response)

2/16 - The Census Bureau is considering how to ask about gender identity. People have their opinions (via AP; see also, public comments at regulations.gov)

2/16 - Library of Congress told to redo $450M agile software contract (via Washington Technology, with link to source document)

See full weekly list of Congressional hearings on congress.gov.

2/14 - Powered Up: State Utility Regulators on Challenges to Reliable, Affordable Electricity (House Energy; see also, ranking member opening statement)

2/15 - Assessing America’s Vaccine Safety Systems, Part 1 (House Oversight; see also, minority press release)

2/15 - Examining Federal Science Agency Actions to Secure the U.S. Science and Technology Enterprise (House Science; see also, ranking member opening statement)