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• Assisting Sick, Exposed, Symptomatic, and Quarantined Voters

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  From the Document: "Election officials across the country are implementing practices to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] during the November elections. Mitigation measures for in-person voting, such as wearing a face covering, social distancing, hand hygiene, cleaning and disinfection, and other measures, lessen the risk of spreading COVID-19 among voters, poll workers, and other individuals at voting locations. These measures mitigate the spread of COVID-19 from knowingly and unknowingly infected individuals alike. [...] This document seeks to briefly summarize existing guidance on assisting knowingly infected, exposed, symptomatic, and/or quarantined voters and share relevant practices used by election officials during 2020 primary elections. The document complements previous voluntary guidance on in-person voting offered by the Election Infrastructure Subsector's Government Coordinating Council (GCC) and Sector Coordinating Council (SCC) Joint COVID-19 Working Group. As election laws vary by state, election officials should seek legal guidance before implementing the practices described in this guidance."

  United States. Election Assistance Commission

  2020-09-29?
• Supreme Court Appointment Process: President's Selection of a Nominee [Updated September 28, 2020]

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  From the Summary: "The appointment of a Supreme Court Justice is an event of major significance in American politics. Each appointment is of consequence because of the enormous judicial power the Supreme Court exercises as the highest appellate court in the federal judiciary. Appointments are usually infrequent, as a vacancy on the nine-member Court may occur only once or twice, or never at all, during a particular President's years in office. Under the Constitution, Justices on the Supreme Court receive what can amount to lifetime appointments which, by constitutional design, helps ensure the Court's independence from the President and Congress."

  Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

  McMillion, Barry J.

  2020-09-28
• MMWR Early Release: COVID-19 Trends Among School-Aged Children -- United States, March 1-September 19, 2020

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  The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This early release issue of MMWR contains the following article: "COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Trends Among School-Aged Children -- United States, March 1-September 19, 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html].

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

  2020-09-28
• CBP Did Not Adequately Oversee FY 2019 Appropriated Humanitarian Funding

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  From the Highlights: "In FY 2019, CBP [U.S. Customs and Border Protection] received $192.7 million for humanitarian expenses to address the needs of migrants in its custody. We conducted this review to determine whether CBP adequately planned and is deploying FY 2019 appropriated funds quickly and effectively to address humanitarian needs on the southwest border."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General

  2020-09-28
• From Science Fiction to Science and Fact: A Realistic Route to Mass Testing

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  From the Introduction: "Both the prime minister and health secretary have been clear in committing to a strategy of mass testing. This so-called moonshot should be welcomed in ambition, but even the most ardent supporter of the government will have lost faith in its ability to deliver it. The idea has, in the government's hands, become confusing. To have an at-home daily test is not feasible yet because the technology hasn't advanced that far. We should incentivise its acceleration, but the moonshot is presently beyond reach. [...] In this paper, we set out a series of short-term measures to boost testing capacity and a set of medium-term actions to be pursued in parallel. Together, these will restore the public's confidence in testing and present a realistic route to mass testing, which remains the only way back to some level of normality."

  Tony Blair Institute for Global Change

  Miller, Brianna; Sleat, Daniel; Wain, Ryan

  2020-09-28
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 5373, United States Anti-Doping Agency Reauthorization Act of 2019

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  This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on September 9, 2020. From the Document: "H.R. 5373 would authorize the appropriation of $178 million over the 2021-2029 period for the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) to prevent the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Olympic sports. The bill also would require the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security and the Food and Drug Administration to coordinate with USADA on efforts to prevent the use of performance-enhancing drugs."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2020-09-28
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 7496, COVID PREPARE Act of 2020

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  This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on September 16, 2020. From the Document: "H.R. 7496 would require each federal agency to submit to the Congress an initial action plan for mitigating the risks associated with any resurgence in coronavirus cases and to provide regular updates until the President ends the emergency declaration related to the coronavirus pandemic. The bill includes specific information to be included in those plans such as the agency's priorities for preparing for and responding to a resurgence of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] cases and its plans for continuity of operations."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2020-09-28
• Coronavirus Pandemic Whole-Of-America Response (September 28, 2020)

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  From the Document: "[1] As of Sept. 27, FEMA, HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] and the private sector coordinated delivery of or are currently shipping: 249 million N95 masks, 1.1 billion surgical and procedural masks, 46.7 million eye and face shields, 432 million gowns and coveralls and over 28.6 billion gloves. [2] As of Aug. 7, FEMA delivered 30,458 medical supplies to nursing homes to 52 states and territories. One hundred percent of scheduled shipments have been made. [...3] In support of the Department of Veterans Affairs, FEMA coordinated shipments of more than 8.1 million N95 respirator masks, 500,000 surgical masks, more than 3.3 million gloves, 595,360 face shields and 30,000 surgical gowns to facilities across the country. [4] As of Sept. 25, the federal government has approximately 139,613 total ventilators available in the Strategic National Stockpile."

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  2020-09-28
• By the Numbers: Lost Wages Assistance Totals [September 28, 2020]

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  From the Document: "On August 8, 2020, President Trump made available up to $44 billion from FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund to provide financial assistance to Americans who have lost wages due to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic." This document from FEMA reports the amounts awarded per state.

  United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

  2020-09-28
• Healthy Elections: Voter Outreach & Education

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  From the Document: "With changes in voting procedures due to the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic, communication between election officials and voters is especially crucial this year. This memo provides illustrative examples of voter education and recommendations for outreach."

  Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project

  Charles, Ben; Gold, Alexa; Malenko, Anastasiia . . .

  2020-09-26
• COVIDView: A Weekly Surveillance Summary of U.S. COVID-19 Activity, Week 39 [September 26, 2020]

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  From the Document: "Nationally, indicators that track COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] activity continued to decline or remain stable (change of ≤0.1%); however, three regions reported an increase in the percentage of specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2], the virus causing COVID-19, and two of those regions also reported an increase in the percentage of visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) or COVID-like illness (CLI) to emergency departments (EDs) or outpatient providers. Mortality attributed to COVID-19 declined but remains above the epidemic threshold."

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

  2020-09-26
• MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Recommendations and Reports, September 25, 2020

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  The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This issue of MMWR contains the following: "Meningococcal Vaccination: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, United States, 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html].

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

  2020-09-25
• MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, September 25, 2020

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  The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This issue of MMWR contains the following: "Trends in Diagnosis of HIV Infection, Linkage to Medical Care, and Viral Suppression Among Men Who Have Sex with Men, by Race/Ethnicity and Age -- 33 Jurisdictions, United States, 2014-2018"; "Public Awareness of Invasive Fungal Diseases -- United States, 2019"; "Characteristics and Maternal and Birth Outcomes of Hospitalized Pregnant Women with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019]-- COVID-NET, 13 States, March 1-August 22, 2020"; "SARS-CoV-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] Infection Among Hospitalized Pregnant Women: Reasons for Admission and Pregnancy Characteristics -- Eight U.S. Health Care Centers, March 1-May 30, 2020"; "COVID-19 Contact Tracing in Two Counties -- North Carolina, June-July 2020"; "Update: Characteristics of Health Care Personnel with COVID-19 -- United States, February 12-July 16, 2020"; "Disparities in COVID-19 Incidence, Hospitalizations, and Testing, by Area-Level Deprivation -- Utah, March 3-July 9, 2020"; "Rabies in a Dog Imported from Egypt -- Kansas, 2019"; "'Notes from the Field '"; and "'QuickStats': Management of Patient Health Information Functions Among Office-Based Physicians With and Without a Certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) System -- National Electronic Health Records Survey, United States, 2018." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html].

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

  2020-09-25
• DHS Made Limited Progress to Improve Information Sharing Under the Cybersecurity Act in Calendar Years 2017 and 2018

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  From the Highlights: "Section 107 of the 'Cybersecurity Act of 2015' requires Inspectors General from the Intelligence Community and appropriate agencies to submit a joint report to Congress on Federal Government actions to share cybersecurity information. We conducted this review to evaluate CISA's [Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency] progress in meeting Cybersecurity Act requirements for calendar years 2017 and 2018."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General

  2020-09-25
• Supply Chain Risk Management: Reducing Threats to Key U.S. Supply Chains

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  From the Document: "The 'National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States 2020-2022' strategic objective for supply chain security is to: 'Reduce threats to key U.S. supply chains to prevent foreign attempts to compromise the integrity, trustworthiness, and authenticity of products and services purchased and integrated into the operations of the U.S. Government, the Defense Industrial Base, and the private sector. [...] The increasing reliance on foreign-owned or controlled hardware, software, or services as well as the proliferation of networking technologies, including those associated with the Internet of Things, creates vulnerabilities in our nation's supply chains. By exploiting these vulnerabilities, foreign adversaries could compromise the integrity, trustworthiness, and authenticity of products and services that underpin government and American industry, or even subvert and disrupt critical networks and systems, operations, products, and weapons platforms in a time of crisis. We must elevate the role of supply chain security in the acquisition process."

  National Counterintelligence and Security Center (U.S.)

  2020-09-25?
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 7276, Desert Locust Control Act

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  This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 29, 2020. From the Document: "H.R. 7276 would require the Administration to establish an interagency working group to address the ongoing outbreak of desert locust in East Africa. It also would require the interagency working group, which would be led by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), to provide the Congress with its plan to control the current outbreak, mitigate its adverse effects on food supplies, economic productivity, and political stability in the region, and address future outbreaks."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2020-09-25
• FEMA Mismanaged the Commodity Distribution Process in Response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria

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  From the Highlights: "We conducted this audit to determine the extent to which FEMA managed and distributed commodities in response to Hurricanes Irma and Maria."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General

  2020-09-25
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 5901, Information Technology Modernization Centers of Excellence Program Act

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  This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on September 16, 2020. From the Document: "H.R. 5901 would establish the Information Technology Modernization Centers of Excellence Program within the General Services Administration (GSA) to encourage and support federal agencies' efforts to modernize their information technology (IT) systems The bill would require GSA to provide, upon request, assistance in planning and adopting cloud computing systems from commercial sources, optimizing IT infrastructure, and adopting artificial intelligence, among other services."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2020-09-24
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: S. 4200, Information Technology Modernization Centers of Excellence Program Act

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  This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on July 22, 2020. From the Document: "S. 4200 would establish the Information Technology Modernization Centers of Excellence Program within the General Services Administration (GSA) to encourage and support federal agencies' efforts to modernize their information technology (IT) systems. The bill would require GSA to provide, upon request, assistance in planning and adopting cloud computing systems from commercial sources, optimizing IT infrastructure, and adopting artificial intelligence, among other services."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2020-09-24
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 5811, TSA Personnel Workplace Improvement Act of 2020

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  This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Homeland Security on February 12, 2020. From the Document: "H.R. 5811 would require the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to provide its employees access to facilities designated for nursing mothers and to notify all employees that those facilities are available. The bill also would require TSA to provide at least 12 weeks of paid parental leave beginning October 1, 2020."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2020-09-24
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 6096, READI Act

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  This is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on July 15, 2020. From the Document: "H.R. 6096 would require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in consultation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to adopt regulations to: [1] Ensure subscribers to commercial mobile services receive emergency alerts from FEMA, [2] Require State Emergency Communication Committees (SECCs) to review and update their Emergency Alert System (EAS) plans each year and submit those plans to the FCC for approval, [3] Establish a system to collect false alert reports under the EAS or Wireless Emergency Alert System, and [4] Modify the EAS to allow repeating messages from the President or FEMA while an emergency persists. H.R. 6096 also would require the FCC to study the feasibility of providing EAS alerts through Internet-based applications."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2020-09-24
• EMR-ISAC: InfoGram, Volume 20 Issue 39, September 24, 2020

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  The Emergency Management and Response Information Sharing and Analysis Center's (EMR-ISAC) InfoGram is a weekly publication of information concerning the protection of critical infrastructures relevant to members of the Emergency Services Sector. This issue includes the following articles: "Factors affecting evacuation in 2016 Tennessee wildfires"; "New IPAWS [Integrated Public Alert and Warning System] Program Planning Toolkit"; "Age range of COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] patients trended younger this summer"; "FEMA's National Exercise Program accepting nominations"; and "Cyber Threats."

  Emergency Management and Response-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (U.S.)

  2020-09-24
• DHS Faces Challenges in Meeting the Responsibilities of the Geospatial Data Act of 2018

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  From the Highlights: "'The Geospatial Data Act of 2018' (the Act) requires each covered agency to comply with 13 responsibilities to foster efficient management and use of geospatial data-- information linked to specific geographic locations. The Act also mandates the Office of Inspector General to submit to Congress a biannual audit report on the agency's progress in fulfilling the Act's requirements. This is the first in a series of audits assessing DHS' compliance with the Act."

  United States. Department of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General

  2020-09-24
• Executive Order 13951: An America-First Healthcare Plan

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  From the Document: "It has been and will continue to be the policy of the United States to give Americans seeking healthcare more choice, lower costs, and better care and to ensure that Americans with pre-existing conditions can obtain the insurance of their choice at affordable rates."

  United States. Office of the Federal Register

  Trump, Donald, 1946-

  2020-09-24
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 8337, the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act

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  This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as passed by the House of Representatives on September 22, 2020. From the Document: "Division A of H.R. 8337 would provide for the continuation, through December 11, 2020, of the appropriations and authorities contained in the 12 annual appropriation acts for 2020. [...] In 2021, most discretionary budget authority is subject to limits (or caps) established by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-25), as modified. Separate caps exist for defense funding (in the law, 'revised security' --budget function 050) and for nondefense funding ('revised nonsecurity' --all other budget functions). The Budget Control Act also provides for certain adjustments to those caps."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2020-09-23
• MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, September 23, 2020: Changing Age Distribution of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- United States, May-August 2020

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  The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Series is prepared by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). [It] is the agency's primary vehicle for scientific publication of timely, reliable, authoritative, accurate, objective, and useful public health information and recommendations. This early release issue of MMWR contains the following article: "Changing Age Distribution of the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Pandemic -- United States, May-August 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2020.html].

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

  2020-09-23
• Future of Defense Task Force Report 2020

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  From the Executive Summary: "To remain economically and militarily competitive, and to ensure American leadership into the next century, policy makers and the Pentagon must navigate a major course correction in how we invest in national security. This will require a paradigm shift in our defense posture from heavy, expensive, and antiquated, to lean, adaptive, and integrated. This strategy will require a whole-of-nation approach, one that embraces emerging technologies, aggressively divests of aging and expensive platforms, and more effectively harnesses ingenuity and innovation from the private sector. The Future of Defense Task Force was established to investigate and assess how to address these challenges. Our findings and recommendations are intended as a roadmap for the greater national security community, and whereas our report should be considered a white paper, it builds upon the extensive work of the House Armed Services Committee, Department of Defense, military services, private industry, think tanks, and academia. This report is neither exhaustive nor conclusive; rather, it is the beginning of a difficult yet necessary conversation. Congress and the American people must recognize that we face a decisive moment as a nation and as the world's leading democracy, both of which are in peril until we alter the future of our defense to ensure the future of our peace."

  United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services

  2020-09-23
• Effects of India's COVID-19 Lockdown on Critical Non-COVID Health Care and Outcomes

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  From the Abstract: "India's COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] lockdown is widely believed to have disrupted critical health services, but its effect on non-COVID health outcomes is largely unknown. Comparing mortality trends among dialysis patients in the eight months around the lockdown with the previous year, we document a 64% increase in mortality between March and May 2020 and an estimated 22-25% total excess mortality through July 2020. The mortality increase is greater among females and disadvantaged groups. Barriers to transportation and disruptions in hospital services appear to be the main drivers of increased morbidity and mortality. The results highlight the unintended consequences of the lockdown on critical and life-saving non-COVID health services that must be taken into account in the implementation of future policy efforts to control the spread of pandemics."

  Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

  Jain, Radhika; Dupas, Pascaline

  2020-09-23
• Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 6334, Securing America from Epidemics Act

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  This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on July 29, 2020. From the Document: "H.R. 6334 would authorize the United States to participate in the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). It also would require the Administration to report to the Congress on the details of its contributions to and participation in the coalition."

  United States. Congressional Budget Office

  2020-09-23
• State of the Nation: A 50-State COVID-19 Survey: Report #14: Misinformation and Vaccine Acceptance

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  From the Document: "We surveyed 21,196 individuals across all 50 states plus the District of Columbia. The survey was conducted on 7-26 August 2020 by PureSpectrum via an online, nonprobability sample, with state-level representative quotas for race/ethnicity, age, and gender. [...] In addition to balancing on these dimensions, we reweighted our data using demographic characteristics to match the U.S. population with respect to race/ethnicity, age, gender, education, and living in urban, suburban, or rural areas. This was the ninth in a series of surveys we have been conducting since April 2020, examining attitudes and behaviors regarding COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] in the United States."

  Northeastern University (Boston, Mass.); Harvard Medical School; Rutgers University . . .

  Baum, Matthew A., 1965-; Ognyanova, Katherine; Quintana, Alexi . . .

  2020-09-23