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Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 6/24/23

Press releases : June 24 - June 30

6/25 - New drought and public health roadmap released (Climate.gov; direct to report page)

6/26 - Locally Acquired Malaria Cases Identified in the United States (CDC)

6/26 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces State Allocations for $42.45 Billion High-Speed Internet Grant Program as Part of Investing in America Agenda (DOC; direct to state funding info)

6/27 - GPO Response to DLC Letter Regarding Censorship (GPO; direct to response letter)

6/27 - U.S. Small Business Administration Releases Report on Anti-Fraud Control Measures in Pandemic Relief Programs (SBA; direct to report page)

6/27 - Treasury Releases Analysis of the Boom in U.S. Construction of Manufacturing Facilities Driven by Invest in America Agenda (Treas; direct to report)

6/27 - Fact Sheet: National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism Strategic Implementation Update (WH)

6/27 - Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Measures to Promote Equitable Community Development (WH, with link to policy memorandum)

6/27 - Apples to Äpfel: Recent Inflation Trends in the G7 (WH/CEA)

6/28 - Same-Sex Couple Households an Important Subset of Full LGBTQ Population (Census)

6/28 - DOE Report Finds Clean Energy Jobs Grew in Every State In 2022 (DOE; direct to report page)

6/28 - U.S. Coast Guard recovers evidence from TITAN submersible (USCG; direct to investigation website)

6/28 - Copyright Office Announces Online Webinar Exploring Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Copyright around the World (USCO)

6/29 - FFIEC Announces Availability of 2022 Data on Mortgage Lending (CFPB; direct to data page)

6/29 - Nation’s Most Comprehensive Report on 2022 Midterm Election Administration and Voting Data Now Available (EAC; direct to report page)

6/29 - EPA Announces New Framework to Prevent Unsafe New PFAS from Entering the Market (EPA; direct to framework page)

6/30 - Department of Defense Strengthening Efforts to Counter Unwanted Foreign Influence on DOD-Funded Research at Institutions of Higher Education (DOD; direct to report)

6/30 - U.S. Department of Energy Releases Plan to Ensure Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research (DOE; direct to plan page)

6/30 - Interior Department Takes Action to Strengthen Endangered Species Protections (DOI)

6/30 - USDA Food and Nutrition Service Resumes Publication of State SNAP Error Rates for FY 2022 (FNS; direct to rates page)

6/30 - Improving Access, Reducing Barriers Top Priorities for New Archivist (NARA)

6/30 - Schedule of 2023 Engagement Sessions, Fifth Open Government National Action Plan (usa.gov)

Bills Signed into Law : June 24 - June 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.


6/30 – S.467, Changing Age-Determined Eligibility To Student Incentive Payments Act (CADETS Act) - modifies age requirement for the Maritime Administration's Student Incentive Payment Program (via WH)

Congressional Hearings : June 24 - June 30

See full weekly list of hearings on congress.gov.


None this week

Miscellaneous : June 24 - June 30

6/26 - Unauthorized dispositions:  1) DOD/Navy, founded - Potential unauthorized disposition of permanent records at the Department of the Navy’s USS Charleston in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Allegedly, records were being reviewed and removed by private naval organizations for historical reference purpose 2) DOI, founded - Unauthorized loss, removal, or destruction of federal records stored in former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s government-issued mobile phones; 3) DOE, founded - Agency reported that email from twenty-eight (28) Office of Science (SC) employees accounts were lost due to mail box limits and failure to appropriately manage the accounts. The employees employees had Google G suite email accounts in addition to their federally managed DOE email accounts. (NARA)

6/26 - Congress sets limits on staff ChatGPT use (via Axios, with source document)

6/27 - Who’s Visiting the White House? The Logs Include 300,000 Names and Are Still Incomplete (via Bloomberg; see also, WH visitor logs page)

6/27 - Regulator shuts down USPS’ request to implement DeJoy’s overhaul without additional oversight (via GovExec)

6/27 - Democratic lawmakers seek Supreme Court investigation into Clarence Thomas (via NBC News, with source document)

6/28 - Alarm as imitation USPTO website emerges, linked to suspicious filing platforms (via WTR)

6/29 - Ancestry records released from era when U.S. banned Chinese immigrants (via Washington Post; direct to database)

6/29 - Opinion: Bidenomics is transformative. Biden needs to ensure voters know it. (via Washington Post, with link to source document)

6/30 - Biden administration failed to foresee Afghanistan mayhem, review finds (via Washington Post; direct to source document)


Trump search warrant/indictment:

6/26 - List of witnesses against Trump cannot be secret in documents case, judge rules (via The Guardian)

6/27 - CNN obtains the tape of Trump’s 2021 conversation about classified documents (via CNN, with audio)

6/28 - ‘It was bravado’: Trump says he wasn’t holding up classified documents in 2021 meeting (via Semafor)

6/29 - Trump ‘Standing Order’ to Declassify Not Found by DOJ, Intelligence Agency (via Bloomberg)

6/29 - Prosecutors are prepared to hit Trump and his allies with new charges, sources say (via The Independent)

Special: SCOTUS decisons this week

6/26 -- Ardoin v. Robinson; order -- Supreme Court clears way for redrawing of Louisiana congressional map to include 2nd majority-Black district (via CBS News)

6/26 -- Peltier v. Charter Day School; order -- Supreme Court Rejects Appeal from Public Charter School Seeking Permission to Violate Students’ Constitutional Rights (via ACLU)

6/27 -- Counterman v. Colorado -- Supreme Court Puts First Amendment Limits on Laws Banning Online Threats (via NYT)

6/27 -- Moore v. Harper -- Supreme Court Rejects Theory That Would Have Transformed American Elections (via NYT)

6/29 -- Groff v. DeJoy -- Supreme Court strengthens protections for religious rights at work (via Washington Post)

6/29 -- Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard -- Supreme Court restricts use of race in college admissions (via Washington Post; see also, president’s remarks | WH fact sheet: President Biden Announces Actions to Promote Educational Opportunity and Diversity in Colleges and Universities | CRS report)

6/30 -- 303 Creative v. Elenis -- Supreme Court protects web designer who won’t do gay wedding websites (via Washington Post; see also, president’s statement | The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court via The New Republic)

6/30 -- Biden v. Nebraska -- Supreme Court Rejects Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Plan (via NYT; see also, president’s statement | WH fact sheet: President Biden Announces New Actions to Provide Debt Relief and Support for Student Loan Borrowers)