U.S. Government Information: WR 5/13/23

5/15 - Total Household Debt Reaches $17.05 trillion in Q1 2023; Mortgage Loan Growth Slows (FRB; direct to report)

5/15 - Bound Congressional Record Now Back to 1873 in Congress.gov (LOC)

5/15 - Secretary Antony J. Blinken On the 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom (State; direct to report page)

5/15 - Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Releases Updated Fact Sheets Highlighting Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Investments in all 50 States, D.C. and Territories (WH)

5/16 - EIA is suspending data collection for its Prime Supplier Report and portions of its Petroleum Marketing Monthly (EIA)

5/16 - IARPA Pursuing Breakthrough Biointelligence and Biosecurity Innovations (ODNI)

5/16 - Biden-Harris Administration Makes Historic, $11 Billion Investment to Advance Clean Energy Across Rural America Through Investing in America Agenda (USDA; direct to info page)

5/17 - Astronomers Find Potentially Volcano-Covered Earth-Size World (SI)

5/17 - USGS Invests Millions in Critical-Minerals Mapping in Alaska (USGS)

5/18 - Large Southern Cities Lead Nation in Population Growth (Census)

5/18 - FTC Warns About Misuses of Biometric Information and Harm to Consumers (FTC; direct to policy statement)

5/18 - Connecting Communities Digital Initiative Announces Next Round of Award Opportunities for Libraries, Archives, Museums, Higher Education and Artists/Scholars in Residence (LOC)

5/18 - IARPA Kicks Off New Research Program to Detect Changes in Movement Patterns (ODNI)

5/18 - FMS 2023: Retooling Foreign Military Sales for An Age of Strategic Competition (State)

5/18 - Treasury Department Releases Progress Report Detailing Price Cap’s Success One Year After Launch (Treas; direct to report page)

5/18 - Fact Sheet: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces New Initiative to Tackle Unsheltered Homelessness (WH)

5/19 - U.S. Department of Education Releases Report on State of School Diversity, Announces New Grant Opportunity (ED; direct to report)

5/19 - U.S. Department of Education and U.S. Department of Justice Release Joint Letter on Postsecondary Online Accessibility (ED OCR; direct to letter)

5/19 - NIST Team Demonstrates Novel Way to Convert Heat to Electricity (NIST)

5/19 - U.S. Postal Service launches service performance dashboard (USPS; direct to website)

5/19 - G7 Leaders’ Statement on Ukraine (WH)

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

See full weekly list of hearings on congress.gov.

5/16 - Artificial Intelligence in Government (Senate Homeland)

5/16 - Oversight of A.I.: Rules for Artificial Intelligence (Senate Judiciary)

5/17 - Counting the Costs: How a U.S. Default Crisis Harms American Families and Businesses (Joint Economic)

5/17 - Review of Federal Judicial Ethics Processes at the Judicial Conference of the United States (Senate Judiciary)

5/18 - Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government (House Judiciary; see also, Politico article and FBI letter to committee chair)

It's time for spring Semiannual Reports to be released. You can track which are currently available here.

5/15 - State Agencies Can Improve Their Reporting of Children Missing From Foster Care to Law Enforcement for Entry Into the National Crime Information Center Database as Required by Federal Statute (HHS)

5/17 - An Investigation of Alleged Misconduct by United States Attorney Rachael Rollins (DOJ; see also, OSC announcement and report to president | Rollins resignation letter, via The Morning Call)

5/18 - Review of the U.S. Agency for Global Media Response to Russia’s 2022 Full-Scale Invasion of Ukraine (State)

5/16 - Artificial Intelligence: Key Practices to Help Ensure Accountability in Federal Use (GAO)

5/17 - FEMA: Opportunities to Strengthen Management and Address Increasing Challenges (GAO)

5/17 - K-12 Education: Additional Guidance Could Improve the Equitable Services Process for School Districts and Private Schools (GAO)

5/18 - Supreme Court Considers Religious Accommodations in the Workplace (CRS)

5/18 - Social Security Series Part 1: The Dilemma (GAO)

5/15 - Threats against the LGBTQIA+ community intensifying: Department of Homeland Security (via ABC News)

5/15 - Durham Finds Fault With F.B.I. Over Russia Inquiry (via NYT; see also, SCO website with report & AG letter to Congress | FBI statement)

5/15 - IRS confirms Stanford study of racial bias in audits (via  Stanford, with link to Senate Finance chair statement and IRS commissioner letter)

5/15 - IRS tests free e-filing system that could compete with tax prep giants (via Washington Post)

5/17 - At least 80 calls to National Archives since 2010 about mishandling classified information (via AP, with link to testimony transcript)

5/17 - Event Recording: “In Conversation with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden” (via infoDOCKET; direct to video)

5/17 - Homeland Security Uses AI Tool to Analyze Social Media of U.S. Citizens and Refugees (via Vice, with source document)

5/18 - GNEB reports to the president removed from website, but made available in NSCEP; all reports also captured in Internet Archive (EPA)

5/18 - USCP OIG website updated to make reports available (USCP; note – reports link on the page isn’t working, but reports are available here)

5/18 - Supreme Court unanimously sides with Twitter in ISIS attack case (via NPR; see also, Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh and Gonzales v. Google LLC opinions on SCOTUS website)

5/18 - Ethics panel to continue investigating Santos even as prosecution proceeds (via Washington Post)

5/19 - FBI misused surveillance tool on Jan. 6 suspects, BLM arrestees and others (via Washington Post, with source document)

5/19 - Are you Hispanic or Latino? A Census mistake reveals a complicated answer. (via Washington Post)

Trump search warrant:

5/17 - Exclusive: New evidence in special counsel probe may undercut Trump’s claim documents he took were automatically declassified (via CNN)