This page is an attempt to provide current awareness of federal government reports and activities. The page will be updated weekly to provide links to important, newsworthy, or interesting material published during the previous week. The goal is to keep the links to a manageable number for readers, not to be a comprehensive listing. All links are captured in the Internet Archive if possible, and a list of earlier roundups is available.
Please keep in mind that government agencies may present material in a way that reads favorably for the government. You are encouraged to consult other resources (e.g. newspapers) for additional information and/or context.
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1/9 - FCC Votes to Establish Space Bureau & Office of International Affairs (FCC)
1/9 - NHTSA Estimates for First Nine Months of 2022 Suggest Roadway Fatalities Beginning to Level Off After Two Years of Dramatic Increases (NHTSA; direct to report)
1/9 - Climate attribution tools critical for understanding extreme events (NOAA; direct to reports page)
1/10 - Biden-Harris Administration Releases First-Ever Blueprint to Decarbonize America’s Transportation Sector (DOT; direct to report page)
1/10 - NEH Announces $28.1 Million for 204 Humanities Projects Nationwide (NEH; direct to awards list)
1/11 - National Taxpayer Advocate delivers 2022 Annual Report to Congress (IRS; direct to report page)
1/11 - NASA’s Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet (NASA)
1/11 - Montreal Protocol emerges as a powerful climate treaty (NOAA; direct to report page, currently executive summary only)
1/11 - Launch of #WithoutJustCause Political Prisoners Initiative (State; direct to website)
1/11 - Fact sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Advance Open and Equitable Research (WH/OSTP)
1/12 - Appointment of a Special Counsel (DOJ; see also, AG remarks and Washington Post article)
1/12 - Biden-Harris Administration Proposes Restoring Protections for Beneficiaries of Federally Funded Social Services (HHS; see also, FFRF statement)
1/12 - Joni Mitchell to Receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song (LOC)
1/12 - ODNI Releases Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (ODNI; direct to report)
1/12 - Whistleblower Reveals Widespread Fraud at Niagara, NY Air Force Fire Department (OSC; direct to letter to president, OSC referral, and Air Force report)
1/12 - OSTP Releases Framework for Strengthening Federal Scientific Integrity Policies and Practices (WH/OSTP; direct to framework)
1/13 - DHS Announces Process Enhancements for Supporting Labor Enforcement Investigations (DHS)
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
1/9 - U.S. Postal Service’s Response to Sexual Harassment Complaints (USPS)
1/10 - Plant Pest and Disease Management and Disaster Prevention Program (USDA)
1/12 - FAA Has Taken Steps To Validate Its Air Traffic Skills Assessment Test but Lacks a Plan To Evaluate Its Effectiveness (DOT)
1/11 - The Postal Service in the 21st Century: A Recent History (USPS)
1/9 - Congress and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (CRS)
1/10 - U.S. Direct Financial Support for Ukraine (CRS)
1/10 - Free Speech: When and Why Content-Based Laws Are Presumptively Unconstitutional (CRS)
1/11 - Congressional Control over the Supreme Court (CRS)
1/7 - U.S.D.A. Approves First Vaccine for Honeybees (via New York Times)
1/9 - New House Rules Make It Easier to Dump Speaker, and Harder to Spend or Raise Taxes (via New York Times; see also, H. Res. 5 - Adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundred Eighteenth Congress)
1/10 - The State of Government-Speak in 2022: A Slight Dip in Agency Writing Grades, But Within That ‘A Far More Positive Story’ (via GovExec, with link to source document)
1/11 - Previous records retention rules only explicitly applied to email communications. Now that has expanded to all pertinent electronic messages. (via NextGov, with link to source)
1/12 - Panic Buttons, Classroom Locks: How Schools Have Boosted Security (via New York Times; see also, referenced data page - current releases section)
1/13 - Are book bans discrimination? Biden administration to test new legal theory. (via Washington Post)
Trump search warrant:
- None this week
