Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 1/28/23

1/30 - CBP Highlights Top 2022 Accomplishments (CBP)

1/31 - DHS Center for Countering Human Trafficking Releases FY 2022 Annual Report (DHS; direct to report page)

1/31 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces Action to Help Protect Bristol Bay Salmon Fisheries (EPA; direct to info page)

1/31 - FDA Proposes Redesign of Human Foods Program to Enhance Coordinated Prevention and Response Activities (FDA)

1/31 - USTR Releases 2022 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy (USTR; direct to report)

2/1 - Bureau of Land Management publishes final supplemental analysis for Willow Master Development Plan (BLM; direct to plan page; see also, statements from DOI and House Natural Resources Ranking Member)

2/1 - Justice Department Announces Publication of Second Volume of National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment (DOJ; direct to report page; see also, volume 1)

2/1 - Department of Education Releases New Data Showing the American Rescue Plan and Other Pandemic Relief Funds Kept Millions of College Students Enrolled in School (ED)

2/1 - FTC Enforcement Action to Bar GoodRx from Sharing Consumers’ Sensitive Health Info for Advertising (FTC)

2/1 - Library Opens New Web Archive Collection, Features Programs for Black History Month (LOC; direct to collection)

2/2 - Statement of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas on the Family Reunification Task Force and the Successful Reunification of More Than 600 Children With Their Families (DHS; direct to fact sheet)

2/2- USGS Records Nonfuel Mineral Production Jump of $3.6 Billion in 2022 (USGS; direct to report page)

2/3 - Unemployment is at its Lowest Level in 54 years (DOC; see also, DOL statement; direct to report page)

2/3 - USDA Announces Steps to Improve Child Health through Nutritious School Meals (FNS; direct to info page)

2/3 - Economic and National Security Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic Through 2026 (ODNI; direct to report)

2/3 - Senior State Department Officials On the People’s Republic of China [re: surveillance balloon] (State; see also, 2/4 DoD statement)

2/4 (time sensitive) - How to Watch President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union Address (WH)

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

1/30 - Fraud Alert: PRAC Identifies $5.4 Billion in Potentially Fraudulent Pandemic Loans Obtained Using Over 69,000 Questionable Social Security Numbers (PRAC)

1/31 - Recommendations Issued by the Office of the Inspector General That Were Not Closed as of December 31, 2022 (DOJ)

1/31 - Challenges With Vaccination Data Hinder State and Local Immunization Program Efforts To Combat COVID-19 (HHS)

2/3 - ICE and CBP Deaths in Custody during FY 2021 (DHS)

2/2 - The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework (CRS)

2/2 - Public Health Preparedness: HHS Should Plan for Medical Countermeasure Development and Manufacturing Risks (GAO)

2/2 - Supply Chain Resilience: Agencies Are Taking Steps to Expand Diplomatic Engagement and Coordinate with International Partners (GAO)

2/3 - Rules and Statutes Relevant to Safeguarding Classified Materials (CRS)

2/3 - Effects of Terminating the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) PHE and NEA Declarations (CRS)

1/30 - Durbin Statement on Reported Abuses by Special Counsel Durham (Congress)

2/2 - Senators Warren, Hirono, Sanders, and Wyden Question DoD over Reports of Students Forced into JROTC Enrollment (Congress, with response letters from ED and DoD)

2/2 - DNI Haines Delivers Keynote Address on Overclassification at PIDB Meeting, and Much More: FRINFORMSUM (via National Security Archive, with links to recorded sessions)

2/2 - SNAP recipients will lose their pandemic boost and may face other reductions by March (via NPR, with link to source document)

2/2 - 5th Circuit Rules That People Accused of Domestic Violence Have a Right to Keep Their Guns (via Slate, with link to source document; see also, AG statement)

Trump search warrant:

1/31 - Communications External to the United States Government Relating to a Search Warrant Carried Out at Mar-a-Lago on or About August 8, 2022, Interim Response: May 25, 2022 - August 22, 2022 (DOJ FOIA)

1/31 - Press Statement on Fourth Public Release of NARA Records Concerning the 15 Boxes Received from Mar-a-Lago in January 2022 (NARA; direct to records page)

See full weekly list of hearings on congress.gov.

2/1 - Federal Pandemic Spending: A Prescription for Waste, Fraud and Abuse (House Oversight)