Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 8/31/24

9/3 - U.S. Department of Education Releases Resource Collections for Elementary, Secondary, and Postsecondary Schools (ED OCR; direct to elementary/secondary collection and postsecondary collection)

9/3 - New FTC Data Shows Massive Increase in Losses to Bitcoin ATM Scams (FTC; direct to report page)

9/3 - Climate and health initiative launches website (NIH; direct to website)

9/3 - SEC Charges Six Credit Rating Agencies with Significant Recordkeeping Failures (SEC)

9/3 - Foreign Service Institute, Office of the Historian Release of Foreign Relations of the United States, 1981–1988, Volume XXXVIII, International Economic Development; International Debt; Foreign Assistance (State; direct to website)

9/3 - White House Office of the National Cyber Director Releases Roadmap to Enhance Internet Routing Security (WH/ONCD; direct to roadmap and factsheet)

9/3 - White House Releases New Research Strategy to Protect Communities from PFAS (WH/OSTP; direct to strategy)

9/4 - Household Food Security in the United States in 2023 (ERS; see also, statistical supplement and USDA secretary statement)

9/4 - U.S. Department of State Takes Actions to Counter Russian Influence and Interference in U.S. Elections (State)

9/5 - CFPB Report Highlights Consumer Protection Issues in Medical and Rental Debt Collection (CFPB; direct to report)

9/5 - US Department of Labor announces updates in reporting, enhanced tools to bolster efforts to combat child, forced labor globally (DOL; direct to List of Goods report page and Worst Forms of Child Labor report page)

9/5 - Investing in America: Biden-Harris Administration Announces More Than $1 Billion in Grants for 350+ Communities to Make Local Roads Safer (DOT; direct to .xlsx awards list)

9/5 - NHTSA Estimates Traffic Fatalities Declined in the First Half of 2024 (DOT; direct to report)

9/5 - Raising the Bar Across America (ED; direct to state factsheets page)

9/5 - EPA and Forest Service Release Updated AirNow Fire and Smoke Map (EPA; direct to website and what’s new page)

9/5 - EPA Finalizes Policy for Meaningful Engagement and Public Participation in Agency Decision-Making Processes (EPA; direct to regulations.gov docket)

9/5 - OSC Announces Hatch Act Enforcement Decisions (OSC; direct to Navy Secretary letter | ED secretary advisory opinion)

9/5 - Fact Sheet: President Biden Visits Westby, Wisconsin, Announces $7.3 Billion for Clean, Affordable, Reliable Electricity for Rural America; The Largest Investment in Rural Electrification Since the New Deal (WH; direct to New ERA and PACE websites)

9/6 - U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Announce $1.3 Billion Recovered from High-Income, High-Wealth Individuals Under Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act Initiatives (Treas)

9/6 - Fact Sheet: Days After Labor Day, Biden-⁠Harris Administration Issues Executive Order to Promote Good Jobs Through Investing in America Agenda (WH; see also, EO)

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.

9/4 - Assessing the Federal Government’s Response to the 2023 Maui Wildfires (House Oversight)

9/6 - The Biden-Harris Border Crisis: California Perspectives (House Judiciary)

9/6 - Water Abundance: Opportunities and Challenges in California (House Natural Resources)

9/2 - United States Seizes Aircraft Used by Nicolás Maduro Moros in Violation of U.S. Export Control and Sanctions Laws

9/3 - Former High-Ranking New York State Government Employee Charged with Acting as an Undisclosed Agent of the People’s Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party (see also, CNN article)

9/3 - Justice Department Announces Terrorism Charges Against Senior Leaders of Hamas (see also, NYT article)

9/4 - Justice Department Disrupts Covert Russian Government-Sponsored Foreign Malign Influence Operation Targeting Audiences in the United States and Elsewhere (see also, CBS News article)

9/4 - Two RT Employees Indicted for Covertly Funding and Directing U.S. Company that Published Thousands of Videos in Furtherance of Russian Interests (see also, NPR article)

9/5 - TV Presenter Who Worked for Channel One Russia Charged with Violating U.S. Sanctions Imposed on Russia (see also, AP article)

9/5 - Five Russian GRU Officers and One Civilian Charged for Conspiring to Hack Ukrainian Government (see also, NYT article)

9/6 - Pakistani National Charged for Plotting Terrorist Attack in New York City in Support of ISIS

9/3 - AmeriCorps Inconsistent in Handling of Misconduct Allegations and Did Not Report Alleged Waste (AmeriCorps)

9/3 - Management Implication Report: Protecting the Integrity of EPA-Funded Research (EPA)

9/5 - Analysis of Historical Mail Volume Trends (USPS)

9/3 - Education Department Updates Title IX Regulations: Protections for Pregnant Students and Employees (CRS)

9/3 - Courts Consider Recent Agency Regulations Prohibiting Gender Identity Discrimination Before and After Loper Bright (CRS)

9/4 - AMBER Alert Network: DOJ Efforts to Include Tribes and U.S. Territories (GAO)

9/5 - CBO’s Recent Analyses of Climate Change, Flood Damage, and Mortgages (CBO)

9/6 - Federal Oil and Gas Royalties: Opportunities Exist to Improve Interior's Compliance Program (GAO; see also, House Natural Resources ranking member statement)

9/1 - Federal workers around nation’s capital worry over Trump’s plans to send some of them elsewhere (via AP)

9/3 - Oversight Democrats Launch Investigation into Allegations Trump DOJ Covered Up $10 Million Cash Bribe to Donald Trump from Egyptian President (Congress)

9/3 - The Government Publishing Office takes steps to preserve print (via Federal News Network)

9/3 - Supreme court allows US to withhold Oklahoma’s family planning fund (via The Guardian, with link to source document)

9/4 - E&C Democrats Seek Answers from DOE Inspector General on Unusual Contract Award (Congress)

9/5 - Trump vows to establish an 'efficiency commission' with Elon Musk at the helm (via GovExec)

9/5 - Trump deputy campaign manager identified in Arlington National Cemetery dustup (via NPR)

9/6 - Science Committee Leaders Seek Answers Regarding the Cancellation of NASA’s VIPER Project (Congress; see also, VIPER page)

9/6 - FDA has massive backlog of factory inspections as staffers leave for private sector jobs (via AP, with link to data source)