LibGuides: Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 9/24/22

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Press releases : Sept 24 - Sept 30

9/26 - NASA’s DART Mission Hits Asteroid in First-Ever Planetary Defense Test (NASA)

9/27 - CDC Releases Data on Chronic Diseases and Related Risk Factors (CDC; direct to website)

9/27 - Annual Report on Civilian Casualties in Connection With United States Military Operations in 2021 (DOD)

9/27 - Historic Step: All Fifty States Plus D.C. and Puerto Rico Greenlit to Move EV Charging Networks Forward, Covering 75,000 Miles of Highway (DOT)

9/28 - US Department of Labor announces new reports, tools in global effort to end child, forced labor (DOL; direct to list of goods and findings report pages)

9/28 - FEMA and EDA Release New Resource to Align Community Plans and Build Resilience (EDA; direct to guide and factsheet)

9/28 - FDA Proposes Updated Definition of ‘Healthy’ Claim on Food Packages to Help Improve Diet, Reduce Chronic Disease (FDA)

9/28 - Announcing the Diverse Voices in Health & Medicine Collection Development Toolkit (NLM; direct to website)

9/29 - 2021 American Housing Survey Data Now Available (Census; direct to website)

9/29 - CFPB Supervisory Examinations Find Violations of Federal Law by Student Loan Servicers and University-Owned Lenders (CFPB; direct to report)

9/29 - U.S. Department of Education Estimate: Biden-Harris Student Debt Relief to Cost an Average of $30 Billion Annually Over Next Decade (ED; see also, CBO report)

9/29 - FCC Adopts New '5-Year Rule' for Deorbiting Satellites (FCC)

9/29 - Statement by Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen on New Rule Under the Corporate Transparency Act (Treas; direct to fact sheet)

9/30 - EPA Finalizes Environmental Justice Action Plan for Land Protection and Cleanup Programs (EPA; direct to report page)

9/30 - FCC Launches Outage Information Sharing for Government Agencies (FCC; direct to website)

9/30 - President Biden’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders Releases Inaugural Report (HHS; direct to report)

9/30 - Introducing the Next Generation National Archives Catalog (NARA; direct to website)

9/30 - Imposing Swift and Severe Costs in Response to Russia’s Violations of Ukraine’s Sovereignty (State; see also, Treas press release)

Bills Signed into Law : Sept 24 - Sept 30

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.

9/29 - S.2293, CREW Act - makes employment protections under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act applicable to FEMA reservists who deploy to major disaster and emergency sites

9/30 - S.3969, Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access Program Inclusion Act - authorizes HHS to distribute Protection and Advocacy for Voting Access program grants to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the American Indian consortium

9/30 - H.R.6833, Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 - provides FY 2023 appropriations to Federal agencies through December 16, 2022 (via WH)

Congressional Hearings : Sept 24 - Sept 30

See full weekly list of hearings on congress.gov.

9/28 - From Nuremberg to Ukraine: Accountability for War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity (Senate Judiciary)

9/29 - Examining the Harm to Patients from Abortion Restrictions and the Threat of a National Abortion Ban (House Oversight)

9/29 - Trustworthy AI: Managing the Risks of Artificial Intelligence (House Science)

9/29 - Investing in our Nation’s Transportation Infrastructure and Workers: Why it Matters (House Transportation)

Inspectors General reports : Sept 24 - Sept 30

9/27 - Notification of Concerns Resulting from Multiple Office of the Inspector General Reviews Related to the Federal Bureau of Prisons Strategy for its Medical Services Contracts (DOJ)

9/27 - Operational Challenges Within ORR and the ORR Emergency Intake Site at Fort Bliss Hindered Case Management for Children (HHS)

9/27 - Election Mail Readiness for the 2022 Mid-Term Elections (USPS)

9/28 - ACF Should Improve Oversight of Head Start To Better Protect Children's Safety (HHS)

9/29 - More than $2.6 Million in Potentially Fraudulent LWA Payments Were Linked to DHS Employees' Identities (DHS)

9/29 - Delays in Confirmatory Trials for Drug Applications Granted FDA's Accelerated Approval Raise Concerns (HHS)

Congressional Budget Office / Congressional Research Service / Government Accountability Office : Sept 24 - Sept 30

9/28 - Base Realignment and Closure: DOD Should Provide Congress More Complete and Transparent Information (GAO)

9/29 - Religious Objections to Nondiscrimination Laws: Supreme Court October Term 2022 (CRS)

9/29 - Artificial Intelligence in Health Care: Benefits and Challenges of Machine Learning Technologies for Medical Diagnostics (GAO)

9/29 - Large Constellations of Satellites: Mitigating Environmental and Other Effects (GAO)

Miscellaneous : Sept 24 - Sept 30

9/26 - The Data Liberation Project launched as “an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest” (via Jeremy Singer-Vine; see the get involved page for more info)