7/31 - New Survey of Prison Inmates Data Analysis Tool (SPI DAT) (BJS; direct to website; see also, SPI website)
7/31 - Statement From Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder on U.S. Space Command (DOD)
7/31 - Defense Department Updates Its Law of War Manual (DOD; direct to manual)
7/31 - USDOT Launches New Center Focused on Delivering Infrastructure Projects on Time, on Task, on Budget (DOT; direct to website)
7/31 - Statement from National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board’s Review of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (WH; direct to report)
8/1 - Characterizing Rugged Terrain in the United States (ERS; direct to report)
8/1 - IARPA Launches Ambitious Effort to Track Micro Space Debris (ODNI)
8/1 - Forced Labor Enforcement Task Force Publishes Updated Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Strategy (USTR; direct to report)
8/2 - Submission to Congress of the 2023 Elie Wiesel Act Report (State; direct to report)
8/2 - IRS Launches Paperless Processing Initiative (Treas; see also, Treas secretary remarks)
8/2 - Fact Sheet: Bidenomics at Work in 79 Metro Areas with Record Low Unemployment Rates (WH; see also, BLS statistics page)
8/3 - Uninsured Health Rates Down in 280 Counties, Up in 80 Counties (Census; direct to interactive map and visualization)
8/3 - New HHS Report Shows National Uninsured Rate Reached All-Time Low in 2023 After Record-Breaking ACA Enrollment Period (HHS; direct to report page)
8/3 - IMLS Invests More than $31 Million in Grants to Museums Across America (IMLS; direct to funded programs page)
8/3 - VA launches mobile medical units to increase access to health care for homeless Veterans (VA)
8/4 - EPA Releases Preliminary Data for 2022 Toxics Release Inventory Reporting Year (EPA; direct to data page)
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
7/31 - NPR has obtained via FOIA request the Justice Department’s latest letter asking for sexual orientation and gender identity questions to be added to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (via Hansi Lo Wang, with source document)
7/31 - Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The F.B.I., an F.B.I. Inquiry Found. (via NYT)
8/1 - Lucas and Lofgren Tell Commerce IG to Stop Withholding Documents (Congress)
8/1 - Fitch downgrades U.S. credit rating from top score after debt ceiling crisis (via NBC News; see also, Treasury secretary statement)
8/1 (updated) - Keeping Track of the Trump Investigations (via NYT)
8/3 - After helping prevent extinctions for 50 years, the Endangered Species Act itself may be in peril (via AP)
8/3 - GPO vacates regional offices, embraces 100% telework for all eligible employees (via Federal News Network)
8/4 -Supreme Court rejects Tulsa in Native American traffic laws dispute (via NBC News, with link to source document)
Trump classified documents search warrant/indictment:
None this week
Trump 2020 election/January 6 indictment:
8/1 - Trump indicted for bid to overturn 2020 election (via Politico, with link to indictment; see also, CourtListener docket for documents | Special Counsel website | CRS report)
8/3 - Rep. Schiff Calls on the Judicial Conference to Allow Live Broadcasting of Trump Court Proceedings (Congress)
8/4 - Special counsel cites Truth Social post in arguing for quick court order on evidence sharing as Trump rails against 2020 election charges (via CNN; see also, documents 10/11/12 and 8/5 minute order at CourtListener)
