Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 9/23/23

9/24 - NASA’s First Asteroid Sample Has Landed, Now Secure in Clean Room (NASA)

9/25 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces $1.4 Billion in Infrastructure Funding for 70 Projects That Will Improve Rail Safety, Strengthen Supply Chains, and Add Passenger Rail Service (DOT; direct to projects list)

9/25 - U.S. Consumers Spent More on Food in 2022 Than Ever Before, Even After Adjusting for Inflation (ERS)

9/26 - CISA Launches National Public Service Announcement Campaign Encouraging Americans to Take Steps to Keep Themselves and Their Families Safe Online (CISA; direct to website)

9/26 - DoD Releases Report on Defense Spending by State in Fiscal Year 2022 (DOD; direct to report page)

9/26 - Interior Department Launches Effort to Preserve Federal Indian Boarding School Oral History (DOI; direct to website)

9/26 - Department of Labor announces annual worst forms of child labor report; launches updated, redesigned tools to combat labor abuses (DOL; direct to report page)

9/26 - EPA and U.S. Senator Tom Carper Announce Historic Investments Advancing Environmental Justice for Underserved Communities (EPA; direct to info page)

9/26 - Chairwoman Rosenworcel Proposes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules (FCC; see also, chair’s remarks)

9/26 - FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power (FTC)

9/26 - Introducing the Law Library’s New Multi-jurisdiction Report on Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Around the World (LOC; direct to report)

9/26 - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Releases Report: The Federal Response to Anti-Asian Racism in the United States (USCCR; direct to report page)

9/27 - Annual Report to the Nation Part 2: New cancer diagnoses fell abruptly early in the COVID-19 pandemic (CDC; direct to report)

9/27 - CFPB Mortgage Report Finds Jumps in Closing Costs and Denials for Insufficient Income, Growing Proportion of Cash-Out Refinances (CFPB; direct to report)

9/27 - Biden-Harris Administration’s Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission Releases Report Outlining Comprehensive Recommendations to Change the Nation’s Relationship with Wildfire (DOI; direct to report)

9/27 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces Landmark Final Rules to Protect Consumers from Unaffordable Student Debt and Increase Transparency (ED; direct to prepub rule and fact sheet)

9/28 - Census Bureau Provides Interactive Map of Homeownership Data From the 2020 Census (Census; direct to map page)

9/28 - DOD Announces Release of 2023 Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (DOD; direct to report and fact sheet)

9/28 - Interior Department Announces Progress to Phase Out Single-Use Plastics Across Public Lands (DOI; direct to plans page)

9/28 - Biden-Harris Administration Outlines Strategies to Increase Diversity and Opportunity in Higher Education (ED; direct to report)

9/28 - New EPA Strategy Directs All EPA Enforcement and Compliance Programs to Help Tackle the Climate Crisis (EPA; direct to strategy)

9/28 - HHS Launches Climate and Health Outlook Portal to Identify Counties at Risk of Climate-Related Hazards (HHS; direct to website)

9/28 - NASA Publishes Beta Flagship, Science Websites as Improvements Continue (NASA)

9/28 - Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Hosts First-Ever White House Climate Resilience Summit and Releases National Climate Resilience Framework (WH; direct to report)

9/28 - Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Takes Landmark Step to Counter Antisemitism (WH; see also, announcements/fact sheets from DHS | DOI | DOL | DOT | HHS | HUD | Treas | USDA | and State’s Report on International Efforts to Combat Antisemitism)

9/29 - The Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey is Back (BTS; direct to data page)

9/29 - Statistical Summary of Six-Month Campaign Activity of the 2023-2024 Election Cycle (FEC)

9/29 - HHS Announces Proposed Regulation to Strengthen Services and Protections for Unaccompanied Children in Its Care (HHS)

9/29 - U.S. Department of the Treasury Releases Report on Climate Change and Household Finances (Treas; direct to report and fact sheet)

9/29 - Statement from President Joe Biden on the Passing of Senator Dianne Feinstein (WH; see also, proclamation and VP Harris statement)

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.

---

9/30 (time sensitive) - H.R.5860, Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes - provides fiscal year appropriations to Federal agencies through November 17, 2023 (via WH; see also, president’s statement)

9/25 - DHS Needs to Update Its Strategy to Better Manage Its Biometric Capability Needs (DHS)

9/26 - The Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Civil Rights Applied an Incorrect Legal Standard and Backdated Final Agency Decisions (DOI)

9/26 - Audit of the Department of Justice’s Law Enforcement and Corrections Components’ Use-of-Force Policies (DOJ)

9/26 - Results of Inquiry into the East Palestine Derailment (EPA)

9/28 - Audit of the Office of Justice Programs' Civil Rights Complaint Process (DOJ)

9/28 - Digital Identity in my Social Security (SSA)

9/29 - CBP, ICE, and Secret Service Did Not Adhere to Privacy Policies or Develop Sufficient Policies Before Procuring and Using Commercial Telemetry Data - (redacted) (DHS)

9/29 - Broadband: A Data Stroll (DOC)

9/29 - Assessment of the Library of Congress’s Digital Strategy (LOC)

9/29 - Special Inquiry Into The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Oversight Of Research And Test Reactors (NRC)

9/25 - Tribal Lands: Status of the Navajo Nation's Expanded Leasing Authority (GAO)

9/26 - Private Funding for Election Administration (CRS)

9/27 - Science and Engineering Statistics: Improved Communication Needed with Stakeholders on Data Needs (GAO)

9/28 - Improper Payments: Opportunities for Interagency Collaboration and Improvements (GAO)

9/29 - Air Pollution: EPA Needs to Develop a Business Case for Replacing Legacy Air Quality Data Systems (GAO)

9/25 - Estimated LPR Population and Number Eligible to Naturalize among Recent Arrivals (DHS)

9/26 - Judge Finds Trump Inflated Property Values, a Victory for New York A.G. (via NYT; see also, source document)

9/26 - Trump administration officials ordered to testify on family separations (via Washington Post)

9/27 - Peace Corps Sued Over Mental Health Policy (via NYT)

9/28 - Split privacy board urges big changes to Section 702 surveillance law (via Washington Post; see also, report)

9/28 - U.S. Marshals settle decades-old claims of racism by hundreds of employees (via Washington Post; see also, EEOC announcement)

9/29 - Responses to the CSAC Recommendations from the 2023 Spring Meeting(Census)

9/29 - Unauthorized dispositions: 1) NPS, founded - Former NPS employee removed 75 cubic feet of records, circa 1995-2005(NARA)

See full weekly list of Congressional hearings on congress.gov.

---

9/27 - Countering China's Malign Influence Operations in the United States (Senate Intelligence)

9/27 - AI and the Future of Our Elections (Senate Rules)

9/28 - How SCOTUS's Decision on Race-Based Admissions is Shaping University Policies (House Education; see also, Ranking Member statement)

9/28 - The Basis for an Impeachment Inquiry of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (House Oversight; see also, minority statement)