U.S. Government Information: WR 4/2/22

4/3 - National Library Week: April 3-9, 2022 (Census)

4/4 - Interior Department Releases Five-Year Monitoring, Maintenance and Treatment Plan to Address Wildfire Risk (DOI; direct to plan)

4/4 - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report on Mitigation (State; direct to report page)

4/4 - Establishment of the Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy (State; direct to website)

4/5 - Justice Department Investigation Leads to Shutdown of Largest Online Darknet Marketplace (DOJ; see also, Treasury press release)

4/6 - The "Glorious Amateurs" of OSS: A Sisterhood of Spies (CIA)

4/6 - Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Delivers Remarks on Enforcement Actions to Disrupt and Prosecute Russian Criminal Activity (DOJ)

4/6 - Biden-Harris Administration Extends Student Loan Pause Through August 31 (ED; see also, studentaid.gov)

4/6 - ICE releases 2021 SEVP annual report (ICE; direct to report; see also, SEVIS 2021 data – scroll to SEVP data library)

4/6 - U.S. Postal Service Announces New Prices for 2022 (USPS; see also, complete price filing)

4/7 - Copyright Office Launches New Copyright Claims Board Website (Copyright; direct to website)

4/7 - Fact Sheet: U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine (DOD)

4/7 - U.S. and Allies Agree to Largest Oil Release in History to Combat Putin’s War (DOE; see also, IEA announcement)

4/7 - FTC Win at Trial Against On Point Global Makes $102 Million in Refunds Available for Consumers Harmed by Fake Government Website Scams (FTC)

4/7 - IMLS Names Finalists for the 2022 National Medal for Museum and Library Service (IMLS)

4/7 - Marine Scientific Research Data Website Launched (NCEI; direct to website)

4/7 - Digital Jigsaw Puzzles: National Library Week 2022 (SI)

4/7 - Russia’s Suspension from the UN Human Rights Council (State; see also, UN press release)

4/8 - Celebrate the 1950 Census Release with Spring Programs (NARA)

4/8 - Reports of Mass Atrocities in Western Tigray (State; see also, HRW/Amnesty report)

4/8 - IPEC Annual Intellectual Property Report to Congress (WH; direct to report)

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.

4/6 - H.R.3076 Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 - addresses the finances and operations of USPS [includes removing the  Inspector General for the Postal Regulatory Commission and transferring responsibilities to USPS OIG]

4/8 - H.R. 6968 Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act - prohibits the importation of energy products from the Russian Federation (via WH)

4/8 - H.R. 7108 Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act - suspends normal trade relations with the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus and seeks to further leverage trade and human rights sanctions (via WH)

4/6 - Field Operation Reviews at Select Plant and Delivery Units in the San Diego, CA, Area (USPS)

4/7 - NASA's Cost Estimating and Reporting Practices for Multi-Mission Programs (NASA)

4/7 - Noncompliant and Deficient Processes and Oversight of State Licensing Board and National Practitioner Data Bank Reporting Policies by VA Medical Facilities (VA)

4/7 - Concerns with Consistency and Transparency in the Calculation and Disclosure of Patient Wait Time Data (VA)

4/5 - Fleet Management: Preliminary Observations on Electric Vehicles in the Postal and Federal Fleets (GAO)

4/5 - Security of Radioactive Materials (GAO)

4/6 - The Major Questions Doctrine (CRS)

4/6 - Critical Infrastructure Protection: DHS Actions Urgently Needed to Better Protect the Nation's Critical Infrastructure (GAO)

4/6 - Five-justice majority restores Trump-era policy on water pollution, provoking more criticism of emergency docket (via SCOTUSblog, with link to source document)

4/7 - A Judge Ordered The Pentagon To Stop Discriminating Against HIV-Positive Service Members (via BuzzFeed News, with source documents)

4/7 - Homeland Security Watchdog Omitted Damaging Findings From Reports (via New York Times)

4/7 - DOJ plans to investigate boxes of records taken to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago (via Washington Post; see also, Maloney letter to Garland, with NARA letter appended)

4/8 - Trump Officials Failed to Provide Accounting of Foreign Gifts (via New York Times, with link to source document)

4/8 - Unauthorized dispositions, founded cases: 1, USDA) Allegation stated that on January 19 and 20, 2021, USDA Acting State Director unlawfully destroyed federal government records in the form of tweets from the Rural Development Puerto Rico Twitter account; 2, FBI) Potential unauthorized disposition of federal records noted in news article (NARA)

4/8 - Remarks by President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Senate’s Historic, Bipartisan Confirmation of Judge Jackson to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (WH; see also, video via CBS News)

See full weekly list of hearings on congress.gov.

4/5 - Mobilizing our Cyber Defenses: Securing Critical Infrastructure Against Russian Cyber Threats (House Homeland)

4/5 - It’s Electric: Developing the Postal Service Fleet of the Future (House Oversight)

4/5 - Ensuring Transparency in Petroleum Markets (Senate Commerce)

4/6 - Gouged at the Gas Station: Big Oil and America's Pain at the Pump (House Energy)

4/7 - Free Speech Under Attack: Book Bans and Academic Censorship (House Oversight)