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11/21 - Justice Department Grant Establishes New Center to Improve Conditions and Environments in Jails (DOJ)
11/21 - FTC Releases Updated Do Not Call Registry Data Book; Impersonator Fraud Tops List of Consumer Complaints (FTC; direct to report page)
11/21 - HHS Releases Long COVID Report Providing Insights and Opportunities to Support Patient Community (HHS; direct to report)
11/21 - New National Archives Catalog Debuts (NARA; direct to website)
11/22 - Census Bureau Releases New Report on Health Insurance by Race and Hispanic Origin (Census; direct to report page)
11/22 - NARA to Award $1.9 Million for Historical Records Projects (NARA; direct to awards list)
11/22 - NIH establishes website for self-reporting COVID-19 test results (NIH; direct to website)
11/22 -Biden-Harris Administration Launches Version 1.0 of Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool, Key Step in Implementing President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative (WH/CEQ; direct to website)
11/22 - A White House call for real-time, standardized, and transparent power outage data (WH/OSTP; direct to website)
11/22 - Announcing November 29, 2022 Open Government Engagement Session on Increasing Federal Data Access and Utility (WH/OSTP)
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
It's time for Fall Semiannual Reports, which report OIG activities and significant findings/ recommendations for April - September, 2022. SAR availability is tracked on this page.
11/21 - The EPA Met 2018 Water Security Requirements but Needs to Improve Oversight to Support Water System Compliance (EPA)
11/25 - Simulated Internal Cyber Attack Gained Control of Critical Census Bureau Systems (DOC)
11/21 - Residential Energy Tax Credits: Changes in 2023 (CRS)
11/22 - Survey of State Marriage Laws Related to Same-Sex Marriage (CRS)
11/19 - Former Anti-Abortion Leader Alleges Another Supreme Court Breach (via New York Times, with source document)
11/22 - Justices clear the way for House committee to obtain Trump’s tax returns (via SCOTUSblog, with link to source document; see also, House Ways & Means chair statement)
11/22 - White House touts omicron-specific boosters ahead of feared winter covid wave (via Washington Post; see also, MMWR)
11/23 - State Immigration Data Sheets, 2021 (DHS)
Trump search warrant:
Docket for Trump v. United States, District Court, S.D. Florida (court documents via Court Listener)
11/22 - DOJ files notice of Jack Smith’s appointment as special counsel (Document 190 at Court Listener)
11/22 - Trump lawyers want DOJ ordered to turn over unredacted Mar-a-Lago search affidavit (via ABC News, with source document – Trump motion to unseal affidavit, Document 189 at Court Listener)
11/22 - Court Appears Ready to End Special Master Review in Trump Files Inquiry (via New York Times)
11/24 - Special Counsel Smith - on thanksgiving - sends a letter to the 11th circuit pointing out a fatal flaw in one of trumps arguments in the documents case. (via @MuellerSheWrote on Twitter, with source documents – letter from special counsel to 11th circuit and Trump letter to 11th circuit)