Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 3/16/24

3/18 - CDC’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Impact Wellbeing™ Campaign Releases Hospital-Tested Guide to Improve Healthcare Worker Burnout (CDC; direct to website)

3/18 - New Annual Integrated Economic Survey Officially Launches (Census; direct to website)

3/18 - Biden-Harris Administration finalizes ban on ongoing uses of asbestos to protect people from cancer (EPA; direct to info page)

3/18 - NIH studies find severe symptoms of “Havana Syndrome,” but no evidence of MRI-detectable brain injury or biological abnormalities (NIH)

3/18 - Fact Sheet: President Biden Issues Executive Order and Announces New Actions to Advance Women’s Health Research and Innovation (WH; see also, EO)

3/19 - Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on FBI Quarterly Uniform Crime Report (DOJ; direct to data page)

3/19 - New Treasury Department Data Show Homeowner Assistance Fund Kept More Than 500,000 Families In Their Homes (Treas)

3/20 - Biden-Harris Administration finalizes strongest-ever pollution standards for cars that position U.S. companies and workers to lead the clean vehicle future, protect public health, address the climate crisis, save drivers money (EPA; direct to info page)

3/21 - Justice Department Sues Apple for Monopolizing Smartphone Markets (DOJ; see also, AG remarks)

3/21 - Six Former Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Sentenced for Torturing and Abusing Two Black Men (DOJ)

3/21 - Secretary Buttigieg Announces First Industry-Wide Privacy Review of U.S. Airlines (DOT)

3/21 - Biden-Harris Administration Approves Additional $5.8 Billion in Student Debt Relief for 78,000 Public Service Workers (ED)

3/21 - Toxic chemical releases have declined 21% in 10 years according to new Toxics Release Inventory data (EPA; direct to report/data page)

3/21 - FTC Releases Report on Grocery Supply Chain Disruptions (FTC; direct to report)

3/21 - HHS Releases Large Scale Water Utility Affordability Survey Report as Part of the First-Ever Federal Water Assistance Program (HHS; direct to report)

3/21 - United Nations General Assembly Adopts by Consensus U.S.-Led Resolution on Seizing the Opportunities of Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Systems for Sustainable Development (State; direct to resolution)

3/21 - The 2024 Economic Report of the President (WH/CEA; direct to report)

3/22 - DIA Comic Book Series Returns to Battle Killer Robots (DIA; direct to website)

3/22 - Continued Decline of Wetlands Documented in New U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Report (FWS; direct to report page)

3/22 - The White House Advances Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Leadership with the Launch of the National Bioeconomy Board (WH/OSTP)

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.

3/18 - S.206, END FENTANYL Act - requires CBP to review and update manuals and policies related to inspections at ports of entry to ensure the uniformity of inspection practices to effectively detect illegal activity along the border

3/23 (time sensitive) - H.R. 2882, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 – provides funding through 9/30/24 (via WH; see also, president’s statement and Senate Appropriations release with summaries & explanations)

3/18 - Audit of the Management of Organs Retained for Forensic Examination by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner (DOD)

3/18 - Withdrawal From Afghanistan: USAID Faced Challenges Assisting in the Evacuation and Relocation of Implementer Staff (USAID)

3/19 - Special Inspector General for Operation Atlantic Resolve Launches New Website on Oversight of U.S. Assistance to Ukraine (DOD; direct to website)

3/19 - The Department of Energy’s Considerations and Use of Data Analytics (DOE)

3/20 - Results of July 2023 Unannounced Inspections of CBP Holding Facilities in the Rio Grande Valley Area (DHS)

3/20 - Government Publishing Office Telework Program (GPO)

3/20 - Logistics Managers Improperly Allowed Employees to Auction Off Government Property (VA)

3/18 - Supplemental Material for GAO-24-106446: Strengthening Coordination and Monitoring of Autism Activities in the Federal Government [Easy Read version] (GAO; see also, original version)

3/19 - The American Climate Corps (CRS)

3/20 - The Federal Perspective on Coverage of Medications to Treat Obesity: Considerations From the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

3/20 - Border Security: Border Patrol's Missing Migrant Program (GAO)

3/22 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): History, Overview of Domestic Programs, and Selected Issues (CRS)

3/18 - RBG award ceremony canceled amid controversy over recipients (via NPR; see aslo, Opperman news release)

3/20 - Development of the Food-at-Home Monthly Area Prices Data (ERS)

3/20 - Supreme Court allows Texas to begin enforcing controversial immigration law (via CNN, with source document; see also, Mexico Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement and Appeals court blocks Texas immigration law shortly after Supreme Court action via NBC News, with source document)

3/20 - Democrats seize on a GOP budget proposal that would raise Social Security retirement age (via Washington Post, with link to source document; see also, WH fact sheets on economic issues and abortion ban proposals)

3/21 - House committee leaders want Biden to oust the acting Commerce IG (via GovExec, with link to source document)

3/21 - Social Security program failed to properly notify people of huge fines, report finds (via Washington Post, with source document)

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

3/19 - An Assessment of the Biden Administration’s Withdrawal from Afghanistan by America’s Generals (House Foreign Affairs)

3/20 - Legislative Proposals to Support Modernizing the Congressional Research Service and the Use of Federal Data (House Administration; see also, witness statements and “top takeaways” from subcommittee majority)

3/20 - Reforming Federal Records Management to Improve Transparency and Accountability (Senate Homeland)

3/20 - The Continued Assault on Reproductive Freedoms in a Post-Dobbs America (Senate Judiciary)