Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 6/15/24

6/16 - Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Takes Action to Counter Islamophobia (WH)

6/17 - CMS Preparing to Close Program that Addressed Medicare Funding Issues Resulting from Change Healthcare Cyber-Attack (CMS)

6/17 -  FTC Takes Action Against Adobe and Executives for Hiding Fees, Preventing Consumers from Easily Cancelling Software Subscriptions (FTC; see also, DOJ release)

6/17 - CISA and the EAC Release Guide to Help Election Officials Apply Communication Best Practices to Election Infrastructure Security (EAC; direct to guide)

6/17 - New Program Participation Dashboard Goes Live (FNS; direct to dashboard)

6/17 - U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Announce New Initiative to Close Loopholes, Ensure Wealthiest Taxpayers Pay What They Owe (Treas; see also, IRS release)

6/18 - Computer and Internet Use in the United States: 2021 (Census; direct to report)

6/18 - Biden-Harris Administration Releases Report Highlighting Historic and Ongoing Negative Impacts of Federal Columbia River Dams on Tribal Communities (DOI; direct to report)

6/18 - FEC receives $8.8 million award to modernize agency’s electronic filing system (FEC)

6/18 - Expanding Passport Agencies Across the United States (State)

6/18 - Fact Sheet: President Biden Announces New Actions to Keep Families Together (WH; see also, DHS secretary statement)

6/20 - Commerce Department Prohibits Russian Kaspersky Software for U.S. Customers (BIS; see also, releases from State and Treas)

6/20 - IRS enters next stage of Employee Retention Credit work; review indicates vast majority show risk of being improper (IRS; see also, ERC website)

6/20 - NASA, Partners Conduct Fifth Asteroid Impact Exercise, Release Summary (NASA; direct to summary)

6/20 - Treasury Releases Report on Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States (Treas; direct to report)

6/20 - Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Releases Agency Climate Adaptation Plans, Demonstrates Leadership in Building Climate Resilience (WH; direct to plans website)

6/20 - Update: Grocery Price Inflation Has Cooled Substantially (WH/CEA)

6/20 - Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Proposes Plan to Protect and Steward Old-Growth Forests on National Forest System Lands (WH; see also, FS release)

6/21 - FTC Issues Annual Report on Refunds to Consumers; Agency Returned $324M in 2023 (FTC; direct to report)

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

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

6/18 - Boeing’s Broken Safety Culture: CEO Dave Calhoun Testifies (Senate Homeland)

6/20 - The Immediate and Long-Term Challenges Facing Public School Teachers: Low Pay, Teacher Shortages, and Underfunded Public Schools (Senate Health)

6/17 - FirstNet Authority’s Lack of Contract Oversight for Device Connection Targets Puts the NPSBN at Risk of Impacting First Responders’ Use of the Network (DOC)

6/17 - CBP and ICE Did Not Have an Effective Process for Detaining and Removing Inadmissible Travelers at an International Airport (DHS)

6/20 - Evaluation of Library of Congress Strategic Planning and Performance Management (LOC)

6/20 - Management Alert: Misuse of Government Furnished Property at Contractor Facility (NASA)

6/20 - NIH Did Not Close Contracts in Accordance With Federal Requirements, Resulting in the Increased Risk of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (HHS)

6/21 - State of the U.S. Postal Service’s Financial Condition (USPS)

6/17 - Selected Tribal Lands in 118th Congressional Districts (CRS)

6/17 - Older Americans Act: Updated Information on Unmet Need for Services (GAO)

6/18 - Health Insurance Coverage for the U.S. Population, 2024 to 2034 (CBO; see also, CBO Publishes New Projections Related to Health Insurance for 2024 to 2034)

6/18 - Sexual Assault: States Provide for Survivors to Access Free Forensic Exams but Total Costs are Unknown (GAO)

6/20 - The Biden Administration’s Proclamation and Rule, Securing the Border, and DHS Operational Constraints (CRS)

6/20 - Sexual Harassment and Violence: Efforts to Help College Athletes (GAO)

6/17 - Biden’s Title IX law expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students is dealt another setback (via AP)

6/17 - Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms (via NYT)

6/18 - Statement Regarding the Matter of Representative Matt Gaetz (Congress)

6/20 - Ranking Member Raskin and Vice Ranking Member Ocasio-Cortez Demand Answers from Chief Justice Roberts Amid Deepening Supreme Court Ethics Crisis (Congress)

6/20 - IRS has 37,000 webpages. About 2% get nearly all of its traffic (via Federal News Network)

6/20 - Democrats seek to repeal Comstock abortion rule, fearing Trump crackdown (via WaPo; see also, Sen. Smith release for S.4619)

6/21 - Plan to Eliminate Records Backlog at the National Personnel Records Center, May 25, 2024 (NARA)

6/21 - Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling (via CNN, with link to source document; see also, statements from president and AG)

6/21 - Appeals court finds 'Obamacare' pillar unconstitutional in suit over HIV-prevention drug (via NBC News, with link to source document)

6/21 - Sotomayor Issues Dire Warning [for same-sex marriage] on Supreme Court Ruling on Noncitizens (via The New Republic, with link to source document)

6/21 - DHS highlights AI as a threat and asset to critical infrastructure in new priority guidance (via NextGov, with link to source document)