Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 7/1/23

7/3 - New Product from the FRMC (NARA; direct to spreadsheet)

7/5 - Census Bureau Releases New Employment and Labor Force Data on Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex Married Couples (Census; direct to tables page)

7/5 - Austin Directs DOD Components to Reinforce Classified Safeguards Following Security Review (DOD; see also, memo and fact sheet)

7/5 - GSA debuts new search tool to support Native Governments and Businesses (GSA)

7/5 - HUD Announces More Than $3.1 Billion to Help People Experiencing Homelessness (HUD)

7/5 - Tap water study detects PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ across the US (USGS; direct to OA article)

7/6 - Interior Department Launches Map to Track Historic Resources Funded by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Nationwide (DOI; direct to map page)

7/6 - EPA Proposes Updates to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Requirements for the Oil and Gas Sector (EPA; direct to info page)

7/6 - Crowdsourcing Campaign Update: Hundreds of Additional Historical Legal Reports Now Available for Crowdsourcing (LOC)

7/7 - US Completes Chemical Weapons Stockpile Destruction Operations (DOD)

7/7 - Texas Man Sentenced to 90 Consecutive Life Sentences for 2019 Mass Shooting at Walmart in El Paso, Texas, Killing 23 People and Injuring 22 Others (DOJ)

7/7 - Join NASA to Celebrate Webb Space Telescope’s First Year of Science (NASA)

7/7 - The Employment Situation in June (WH/CEA)

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.

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None this week

See full weekly list of hearings on congress.gov.

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None this week

7/5 - CBP Released a Migrant on a Terrorist Watchlist, and ICE Faced Information Sharing Challenges Planning and Conducting the Arrest (REDACTED) (DHS)

7/5 - The EPA’s Vulnerability Tracking and Remediation and Information Technology Procedures Review Processes Are Implemented Inconsistently (EPA)

7/5 - SBA’s Administrative Process to Address Potentially Fraudulent Restaurant Revitalization Fund Awards (SBA)

7/5 - Projected Effects of Federal Policies on the Demand for Electric Vehicles and the Supply of Charging Stations (CBO)

7/5 - Supreme Court Invalidates Student Loan Cancellation Policy Under the HEROES Act (CRS)

7/6 - 303 Creative v. Elenis: Supreme Court Recognizes Free Speech Exception to Nondiscrimination Law (CRS)

7/1 - Biden Rules Tighten Limits on Drone Strikes (via NYT, with declassified rules and strategy documents)

7/4 - US citizenship test changes are coming, raising concerns for those with low English skills (via AP)

7/4 - Judge limits Biden administration contact with social media firms (via Politico, with opinion and injunction; see also, 7/6 Biden admin says judge's "vague" social media order causing "harm" via Axios, with DOJ motion to stay pending appeal)

7/6 - 50 Years of U.S. Resistance to Environmental Reparations (via National Security Archive, with 17 declassified documents)

7/6 - Incoming director of Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum steps down months after appointment (via NBC News, with link to source document)

7/7 - Archiving things is not the sleepy job you might think it is (via Federal News Network)

7/7 - Federal agencies are on Threads, here’s what the records agency says about that (via GovExec)

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Trump search warrant/indictment:

7/3 - How Trump has flaunted sensitive information: A history (via Washington Post)

7/5 - New details of Trump Mar-a-Lago search warrant request unsealed (via Washington Post; see document 156-1 at CourtListener and archived original release document 102-1 from 8/26/22)

7/6 - Records Concerning the Search Warrant Executed at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022, Interim Response, August 5, 2022 - August 30, 2022 (DOJ FOIA)

7/6 - Prosecutors in Trump classified documents case are facing threats (via Washington Post)

7/7 - Special Counsel’s Office – Smith: Statement of Expenditures, November 18, 2022 – March 31, 2023 (DOJ SCO)