Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 5/15/21

5/17 - Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights Announces Virtual Public Hearing to Gather Information for the Purpose of Improving Enforcement of Title IX (ED)

5/17 - Former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Micah Greenberg Pleads Guilty to Multiple Federal Offenses (FBI)

5/17 - FTC Data Shows Huge Spike in Cryptocurrency Investment Scams (FTC; direct to report)

5/17 - HUD Announces $5 Billion to House People Experiencing Homelessness (HUD; direct to awardee list)

5/17 - Astrophysicists Launch Largest Sky Survey Yet To Map the Universe (Smithsonian)

5/18 - Attorney General Launches Review to Reinvigorate the Justice Department’s Commitment to Access to Justice (DOJ; direct to memo; see also, White House memo)

5/18 - Trilateral Statement of the USMCA Free Trade Agreement (USTR)

5/19 - EPA Adds New PFAS to its Drinking Water Treatability Database (EPA)

5/20 - ICE to Close Two Detention Centers (DHS; see also, House Homeland Security & House Oversight chairs statement)

5/20 - Socially Disadvantaged, Beginning, Limited Resource, and Female Farmers and Ranchers (ERS)

5/20 - Upcoming US Law Webinars – June 2021 (LOC)

5/20 - National Archives Awards $3.9 Million in Grants for Documentary Editing and Archival Projects (NARA)

5/20 - NASA, ESA, JAXA Host Hackathon to Study COVID-19 Environmental Effects (NASA)

5/20 - NIST, Collaborators Develop New Method to Better Study Microscopic Plastics in the Ocean (NIST; direct to OA article)

5/20 - Treasury Releases Report on the American Families Plan’s Tax Compliance Agenda (Treas; 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.

5/20 - S.937: COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act - facilitates the expedited review of COVID–19 hate crimes

5/17 - DHS Law Enforcement Components Did Not Consistently Collect DNA from Arrestees (DHS)

5/19 - ICE Did Not Consistently Provide Separated Migrant Parents the Opportunity to Bring Their Children upon Removal (DHS)

5/20 - Evaluation of the Department of Defense’s Handling of Incidents of Sexual Assault Against (or Involving) Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy (DOD)

5/20 - Risk of Closed Institutions of Higher Education Receiving Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund Grants (ED)

5/17 - Retirement Security: Debt Increased for Older Americans over Time, but the Implications Vary by Debt Type (GAO)

5/18 - Judicial Nomination Statistics and Analysis: U.S. Circuit and District Courts, 1977-2020 (CRS)

5/19 - COVID-19 in Nursing Homes: Most Homes Had Multiple Outbreaks and Weeks of Sustained Transmission from May 2020 through January 2021 (GAO; see also, House chairs statement)

5/20 - The U.S. Military’s Force Structure: A Primer, 2021 Update (CBO; see also, CBO’s Interactive Force Structure Tool)

5/17 - Trump Justice Dept. Tried to Use Grand Jury to Identify Nunes Critic on Twitter (via New York Times, with source document)

5/17 - The President and Vice President release their 2020 tax returns (White House; see also, Annual financial disclosure reports for Biden and Harris via OGE)

5/18 - State Department Ends Policy That Denied Citizenship to Children of Same-Sex Couples (via Immigration Equality, with link to source document)

5/21 - The federal government puts out a ‘help wanted’ notice as Biden seeks to undo Trump cuts (via Washington Post)

See full weekly list of hearings on congress.gov.

5/18 - The U.S.-Afghanistan Relationship Following the Military Withdrawal (House Foreign Affairs)

5/18 - Paid Leave for Working Families: Examining Access, Options, and Impacts (Senate HELP)

5/ 19 - Examining Emergent BioSolutions’ Failure to Protect Public Health and Public Funds (House Coronavirus)Hous

5/19 - Continuing Injustice: The Centennial of the Tulsa-Greenwood Race Massacre (House Judiciary)

5/20 - Powering Up Clean Energy: Investments to Modernize and Expand the Electric Grid (House Climate)