Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 12/21/24

12/22 - A year of science and innovation: Reflections from 2024 (NOAA)

12/23 - DOE's Top Clean Energy Accomplishments in 2024 (DOE)

12/23 - Fact Sheet: President Biden Commutes the Sentences of 37 Individuals on Death Row (WH; see also, president’s statement and NBC News article)

12/26 - HUD Modernizes [state information] Website to Enhance User Experience (HUD; direct to website)

12/27 - Justice Department Issues Final Rule Addressing Threat Posed by Foreign Adversaries’ Access to Americans’ Sensitive Personal Data (DOJ; direct to factsheet)

12/27 - HHS Office for Civil Rights Proposes Measures to Strengthen Cybersecurity in Health Care Under HIPAA (HHS; direct to factsheet)

12/27 - Federal Government Announces Significant Efforts to Reduce Homelessness (HUD)

12/27 - HUD Releases January 2024 Point-In-Time Count Report (HUD; direct to report page; see also, NPR article)

12/27 - NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun (NASA; see also, probe page)

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.

12/23 (VETO) - S. 4199, JUDGES Act of 2024 (see also, statements from president and AO director)

12/23 - H.R. 5009, Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 - authorizes appropriations for FY 2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense and certain other military/intelligence programs (see also, president’s statement)

12/24 - [Fifty] bills signed (via WH; see also, WKMG Orlando article)

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

None this week

12/26 - Improved Secure Document Safeguarding and Destruction Procedures Are Needed (TIGTA)

12/27 - The Orphaned Wells Program Office Needs to Improve Its Oversight of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Funding to States (DOI)

12/23 - Archival Records of Congress: Frequently Asked Questions (CRS)

12/26 - Termination of the State Department’s Global Engagement Center (CRS; see also, GEC website)

12/26 - Biomedical Research: Strategic Workforce Planning Needed to Address Recruitment and Hiring Challenges at ARPA-H (GAO)

12/27 - Biden Administration Executive Actions Resulting in Modifications for the Federal Student Loan Programs (CRS)

12/21 - Senate Judiciary Committee Releases Revealing Investigative Report on Ethical Crisis at the Supreme Court (Senate Judiciary; direct to report & appendices; note - unable to capture google docs in IA, but I’ve uploaded the full report with appendices)

12/22 - Report of 'Missing' GOP Congresswoman in Senior Facility Sparks Backlash (via Newsweek)

12/23 - Statement of the Committee on Ethics Regarding Representative Matt Gaetz (House Ethics, with links to report/appendices; see also, Salon article)

12/23 - Review of CIA’s Efforts to Provide Facilitated Medical Care and Benefits for Individuals Affected by Anomalous Health Incidents released (Senate Intelligence)

12/23 - 1 million Americans to receive checks from the IRS. How to know if you're eligible (via ABC News, with link to source document)

12/23 - Hundreds of organizations were notified of potential Salt Typhoon compromise (via NextGov)

12/23 - Major broadband subsidy faces uncertain 2025 (via RouteFifty, with links to source documents)

12/23 - More than 3,100 students died at schools built to crush Native American cultures (via WaPo)

12/24 - President Joe Biden signs into law first federal anti-LGBTQ+ bill in decades (via The Advocate; see also, final paragraph of president’s statement)

12/24 - How prosecutors’ evidence mistakes could let Menendez walk away from corruption charges (via Politico)

12/25 - Inside how the Capitol Police has changed since Jan. 6, 2021 (via Politico)

12/26 - The US says it pushed retraction of a famine warning for north Gaza. Aid groups express concern. (via AP, with links to source documents; note - report has been removed from web, but is available in Internet Archive)

12/26 - Republicans Quietly Axed IRS Funding Amid Government Shutdown Chaos (via TNR)

12/27 - Reports page added to Unaccompanied Children website; includes monthly Reports to Congress on Separated Children for Oct. 2019-Oct. 2024 (HHS; note - Internet Archive shows this page was intermittently linked from the home page, but prior capture attempts show it as a “restricted” page and none of the reports were captured. It appears my captures from 12/28 were successful.)

12/27 - Trump asks the Supreme Court to delay the start of the TikTok ban (via NPR; see also, Trump brief and SCOTUS docket)