This page is an attempt to provide current awareness of federal government reports and activities. The page will be updated weekly to provide links to important, newsworthy, or interesting material published during the previous week. The goal is to keep the links to a manageable number for readers, not to be a comprehensive listing.
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11/21 - NASA, US and European Partners Launch Mission to Monitor Global Ocean (NASA)
11/23 - Webinar on Release of 2015-2019 American Community Survey Statistics (Census)
11/24 - Notice to Stakeholders: USDA Publishes Proposed Rule Maintaining School Meal Flexibilities (FNS)
11/24 - Statement from HHS Chief of Staff Brian Harrison on Efforts to Increase Transparency at HHS (HHS)
11/24 - Behind the Book, a New Event Series, Takes Public Inside the World of American Publishing (LOC)
11/24 - Research Guides in Focus – Legal Research: A Guide to Case Law (LOC)
11/25 - Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Launches Refreshed Website with a New Interactive Enforcement Database (CFPB; direct to new enforcement database)
11/25 - EPA Finds That Existing Requirements Effectively Address Financial Risks from Three Industries (EPA)
11/25 - Due to COVID Pandemic, NCES to delay National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) assessment (NCES; see also, Murray, Scott: Moral Imperative to Measure Scope of Learning Loss Remains, Despite Postponement of NAEP)
11/25 - Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding Executive Grant of Clemency for General Michael T. Flynn (White House; see also, Pelosi Statement on Trump Pardoning of Michael Flynn)
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
11/23 - Management Challenges at the Department of Energy – Fiscal Year 2021 (DOE: notes that the OIG has "significantly revised how the Management Challenges Report was compiled and presented")
11/23 - Region IX Whistleblower Protection Program Complaints Were Not Complete or Timely (DOL)
Fall Semiannual Reports (SARs) to Congress are now being released. You can track which are available via this page.
11/23 - Southwest Border: Information on Federal Agencies' Process for Acquiring Private Land for Barriers (GAO; see also, Following Senate Dem Request, Federal Watchdog Releases Report Detailing Trump Administration’s Disgraceful Efforts To Seize Private Land To Build Ineffective Southern Border Wall)
11/23 - Consumer Privacy: Better Disclosures Needed on Information Sharing by Banks and Credit Unions (GAO)
11/24 - Six separate reports on presidential transitions: midnight rulemaking; government records; executive orders; executive clemency; executive branch political appointment status; and overview (CRS)
11/24 - Overview of FY2021 Appropriations for the Census Bureau (CRS)
11/23 - GSA issues ascertainment letter for presidential transition (GSA; pdf file)
11/23 - Chairs Maloney and Scott Issue Statement After Department of Education Suspends Tool to Help Defrauded Student Borrowers (Congress)
11/23 - Chairwoman Johnson Questions David Legates Appointment to New Senior-Level NOAA Role and Detail to USGCRP (Congress)
11/25 - Army Corps denies permit for controversial mine that threatened salmon habitat in Alaska (via CNN, with embedded sound recording; see also, Chairs DeFazio and Napolitano Issue Statements on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Decision on the Pebble Mine Project)
11/25 - House Chairs Seek Accounting of Political Appointees Burrowing into Career Positions at Dozens of [Agencies] (Congress)
11/25 - Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies, Before Jan. 20 (via ProPublica, with links to source documents)
11/26 - Trump administration removes experts from Defense Policy Board (via CNN)
11/27 - Trump officials move to relax rules on killing birds (via Washington Post, with links to source documents)
