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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 16, 2021
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: "State-Level Economic Costs of Opioid Use Disorder and Fatal Opioid Overdose - United States, 2017"; "Progress in Immunization Safety Monitoring - Worldwide, 2010-2019"; "Update: COVID-19 Pandemic-Associated Changes in Emergency Department Visits - United States, December 2020-January 2021"; "Factors Associated with Participation in Elementary School-Based SARS-CoV-2 Testing - Salt Lake County, Utah, December 2020-January 2021"; "Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalizations, by Region - United States, March-December 2020"; "Emergency Department Visits for COVID-19 by Race and Ethnicity -13 States, October-December 2020"; "Notes from the Field Update on Excess Deaths Associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic - United States, January 26, 2020-February 27, 2021"; "COVID-19 Stats"; and "QuickStats."
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Luo, Feijun; Li, Mengyao; Florence, Curtis
2021-04-16
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EMR-ISAC: InfoGram, Volume 21 Issue 15, April 15, 2021
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: "FDA recommends transition from use of decontaminated disposable respirators, NIOSH updates strategies for optimizing respirator supply"; "NASA, Forest Service partnership expands FIRMS active fire mapping capabilities"; "CARES Act funding for public safety"; "Webinar: Community response and drone technology to improve outcomes from rural and remote cardiac arrest - The future is here!"; "Apply Microsoft April 2021 security update to mitigate newly disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities"; "Using Aviary to analyze post-compromise threat activity in M365 environments"; "FBI and CISA issue joint alert on Mamba ransomware"; "Cost of a Cyber Incident: Systematic Review and Cross-Validation"; and "Justice Department announces court-authorized effort to disrupt exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities".
Emergency Management and Response-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (U.S.)
2021-04-15
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Executive Order 14024: Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation
From the Document: "I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President of the United States of America, find that specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation--in particular, efforts to undermine the conduct of free and fair democratic elections and democratic institutions in the United States and its allies and partners; to engage in and facilitate malicious cyber-enabled activities against the United States and its allies and partners; to foster and use transnational corruption to influence foreign governments; to pursue extraterritorial activities targeting dissidents or journalists; to undermine security in countries and regions important to United States national security; and to violate well-established principles of international law, including respect for the territorial integrity of states--constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
United States. Office of the Federal Register
Biden, Joseph R., Jr.
2021-04-15
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MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 14, 2021: Laboratory Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Exposure Reduction Through Physically Distanced Seating in Aircraft Cabins Using Bacteriophage Aerosol -- November 2020
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: "Laboratory Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Exposure Reduction Through Physically Distanced Seating in Aircraft Cabins Using Bacteriophage Aerosol -- November 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from MMWR can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2021-04-14
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Border Security: Assessment of the Department of Homeland Security's Border Security Improvement Plan [April 12, 2021]
From the Document: "Within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the lead law enforcement agency responsible for border security. It manages approximately 7,000 miles of land border and 95,000 miles of shoreline. CBP is also responsible for facilitating legitimate trade and travel through 328 land, air, and maritime ports of entry. Several offices within CBP help carry out this mission, including the U.S. Border Patrol (Border Patrol), Air and Marine Operations, and Office of Field Operations. The DHS Appropriations Act, 2017, required the Secretary of Homeland Security to submit a risk-based plan for improving U.S. border security--referred to as the Border Security Improvement Plan--to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. [...] This report addresses the extent to which the 'Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Border Security Improvement Plan' (the 2019-2020 plan) includes the elements required by the DHS Appropriations Act, 2018, as referenced by the 2019 and 2020 appropriations acts."
United States. Government Accountability Office
2021-04-12
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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 12, 2021
"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: "Emergency Department Visits for COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] by Race and Ethnicity -- 13 States, October-December 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
Smith, Amanda R.; DeVies, Jordan; Caruso, Elise . . .
2021-04-12
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MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 12, 2021: Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Hospitalizations, by Region -- United States, March-December 2020
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: "Trends in Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] Hospitalizations, by Region -- United States, March-December 2020." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2021-04-12
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SBA Shuttered Venue Operators Grant Program (SVOG) [Updated April 12, 2021]
From the Document: "Most of the SBA's [Small Business Administration's] funding during the 116th Congress was provided through supplemental appropriations for new and expanded programs, including the Paycheck Protection Program ($806.45 billion), Economic Injury Disaster Loans ($50.02 billion), Emergency Economic Injury Disaster Loan advance (grant) payments ($20 billion), Targeted Economic Injury Disaster Loan advance (grant) payments ($20 billion), and the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program ($15 billion). This report focuses on the new $16.25 billion SVOG program--authorized by P.L. [public law] 116-260, the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act (Division N, Title III of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021), provided an additional $1.25 billion by P.L. 117-2, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and administered by the SBA's Office of Disaster Assistance--which provides grants to shuttered venues affected by the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Dilger, Robert Jay, 1954-; Lowry, Sean
2021-04-12
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Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community
From the Foreword: "In the coming year, the United States and its allies will face a diverse array of threats that are playing out amidst the global disruption resulting from the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] pandemic and against the backdrop of great power competition, the disruptive effects of ecological degradation and a changing climate, an increasing number of empowered non-state actors, and rapidly evolving technology. The complexity of the threats, their intersections, and the potential for cascading events in an increasingly interconnected and mobile world create new challenges for the IC [intelligence community]. Ecological and climate changes, for example, are connected to public health risks, humanitarian concerns, social and political instability, and geopolitical rivalry. The 2021 Annual Threat Assessment highlights some of those connections as it provides the IC's baseline assessments of the most pressing threats to US national interests, while emphasizing the United States' key adversaries and competitors. It is not an exhaustive assessment of all global challenges and notably excludes assessments of US adversaries' vulnerabilities. It accounts for functional concerns, such as weapons of mass destruction and technology, primarily in the sections on threat actors, such as China and Russia."
United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence
2021-04-09
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Letter from [Office of the Secretary of Defense] to [Senior Pentagon Leadership Commanders of the Combatant Commands Defense Agency and DOD Field Activity Directors] Regarding [Immediate Actions to Counter Extremism in the Department and the Establishment of the Countering Extremism Working Group], April 9, 2021
From the Document: "On February 5, 2021, I directed the Stand-Down to occur within the following 60 days to address extremism across DoD. While we conduct a detailed review of what we learned, there are immediate actions that our subject matter experts here in the Department have identified as critical initial steps. To that end, I am directing several immediate actions and the establishment of the Countering Extremism Working Group (CEWG) as we continue to address this issue proactively."
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense
2021-04-09
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Increasing Numbers of Unaccompanied Alien Children at the Southwest Border [Updated April 9, 2021]
From the Document: "In the first five months of FY2021, encounters (apprehensions or expulsions) of unaccompanied alien children [hyperlink] (UAC) at the U.S.-Mexico border with the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS's) U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are approaching a level [hyperlink] close to that for all of FY2020. While the number of UAC encounters declined substantially from FY2019 to FY2020, in large part because of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, they are expected to rapidly increase [hyperlink] in the coming months, a trend that has attracted considerable media attention. [...] Unaccompanied alien children [hyperlink] are statutorily defined as children who lack lawful immigration status in the United States, are under age 18, and lack a parent or legal guardian in the United States or a parent or legal guardian in the United States who is available to provide care and physical custody. UAC treatment and processing at U.S. borders is governed by several statutes and a legal settlement [hyperlink]."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Kandel, William
2021-04-09
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MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 9, 2021
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: "Use of Real-Time PCR for 'Chlamydia psittaci' Detection in Human Specimens During an Outbreak of Psittacosis - Georgia and Virginia, 2018"; "COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality Among American Indian/Alaska Native and White Persons - Montana, March 13-November 30, 2020"; "Use of Stay-at-Home Orders and Mask Mandates to Control COVID-19 Transmission - Blackfeet Tribal Reservation, Montana, June-December 2020"; "Provisional Mortality Data - United States, 2020"; "Death Certificate-Based ICD-10 Diagnosis Codes for COVID-19 Mortality
Surveillance - United States, January-December 2020"; "Community Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Associated with a Local Bar Opening Event - Illinois, February 2021"; "COVID-19 Stats: College and University COVID-19 Student Testing Protocols, by Mode of Instruction§ (N = 1,849) - United States, Spring 2021"; and "QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Had an Influenza Vaccination in the Past 12 Months, by Sex and Race/Ethnicity§ -National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
McGovern, Olivia L.; Kobayashi, Miwako; Shaw, Kelly A. . . .
2021-04-09
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 1195, Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Education and Labor on March 24, 2021. From the Document: "H.R. 1195 would require the Secretary of Labor to issue an interim final standard and a subsequent final standard that would require certain employers in the health care and social service sectors and employers conducting related activities to develop and implement plans to prevent and protect against workplace violence. At a minimum, employers would need to base their plans on a report of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 'Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service Workers,' and meet other requirements in the bill."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2021-04-09
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 2008, Local Water Protection Act
This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on March 24, 2021. From the Document: "Under current law, states are required to report to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on nonpoint sources of pollution that affect navigable water as well as their plans to manage that pollution and improve the quality of navigable water. EPA provides grants for states to manage pollution from nonpoint sources and for other activities to protect groundwater quality. In 2021, $177 million was appropriated for those purposes. H.R. 2008 would authorize the appropriation of $200 million annually over the 2022-2026 period for those grant programs. Assuming appropriation of the specified amounts, CBO [Congressional Budget Office] estimates that implementing the bill would cost $740 million over the 2022-2026 period and $260 million after 2026. The costs of the legislation, detailed in Table 1, fall within budget function 300 (natural resources and environment)."
United States. Congressional Budget Office
2021-04-09
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Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: H.R. 1079, Desert Locust Control Act
This is the Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate as ordered reported by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs on March 25, 2021. From the Document: "H.R. 1079 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 that 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
2021-04-09
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Citizenship and Immigration Statuses of the U.S. Foreign-Born Population [April 9, 2021]
From the Document: "The U.S. foreign-born population consists of individuals living in the United States who were not U.S. citizens at birth. An estimated 44.9 million foreign-born people live in the United States, representing 13.7% of the total U.S. population in 2019 (the most recent data from the American Community Survey [ACS]). The proportion of foreign-born has changed over time. The 1920 percentage of foreign-born (13.2%) was similar to current levels, then declined over the next five decades, reaching a low of 4.7% in 1970. Over the last five decades, the proportion has increased (Figure 1)."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Straut-Eppsteiner, Holly
2021-04-09
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Resources for Tracking Federal COVID-19 Spending [Updated April 9, 2021]
From the Summary: "Congress has responded to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic with supplemental appropriations measures providing relief and assistance to individuals and families, state and local governments, businesses, health care providers, and other entities. This report provides selected sources for tracking COVID-19 relief and assistance spending. It contains links to and information on government sources detailing spending amounts at various levels, including consolidated spending by multiple government agencies, spending by individual government agencies, and spending for specific recipients and geographies. The sources themselves are large government databases, individual agencies, oversight entities, and selected nongovernmental entities that attempt to repackage information on spending amounts obtained from available government sources."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Teefy, Jennifer; Kreiser, Maria
2021-04-09
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Executive Order 14023: Establishment of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States
From the Document: "There is established the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (Commission). [...] The Commission shall produce a report for the President that includes the following: (i) An account of the contemporary commentary and debate about the role and operation of the Supreme Court in our constitutional system and about the functioning of the constitutional process by which the President nominates and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoints Justices to the Supreme Court; (ii) The historical background of other periods in the Nation's history when the Supreme Court's role and the nominations and advice-and-consent process were subject to critical assessment and prompted proposals for reform; and (iii) An analysis of the principal arguments in the contemporary public debate for and against Supreme Court reform, including an appraisal of the merits and legality of particular reform proposals."
United States. Office of the Federal Register
Biden, Joseph R., Jr.
2021-04-09
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EMR-ISAC: InfoGram, Volume 21 Issue 14, April 8, 2021
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: "OSHA [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] National Emphasis Program focuses on protecting workers against COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019], impacts EMS [Emergency Medical Services] agencies"; "Resources for security awareness and mitigation against vehicle ramming attacks on soft targets and crowded places"; "DHS S&T [Science and Technology] partnership and grant funding support regional planners in pre-coordination, licensing, and distribution of 700 and 800 MHz [Megahertz] safety band"; "Webinar: 911 - Sticking together in the critical hours"; "FBI-CISA [Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency] joint advisory on exploitation of Fortinet FortiOS vulnerabilities"; "CISA gives agencies 90 days to further harden networks against Microsoft email threat"; "Ransomware crooks are targeting vulnerable VPN [virtual private network] devices in their attacks"; and "Meet Janeleiro, a new banking Trojan striking company, government targets."
Emergency Management and Response-Information Sharing and Analysis Center (U.S.)
2021-04-08
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Kosovo: Background and U.S. Policy [Updated April 8, 2021]
From the Document: "Kosovo, a country in the Western Balkans with a predominantly Albanian-speaking population, declared independence from Serbia in 2008, less than a decade after a brief but lethal war. It has since been recognized by about 100 countries. The United States and most European Union (EU) member states recognize Kosovo. Serbia, Russia, China, and various other countries (including five EU member states) do not. [...] Congress was actively involved in debates over the U.S. response to a 1998-1999 conflict in Kosovo and subsequently supported Kosovo's declaration of independence. Today, many Members of Congress continue to support Kosovo through country- or region-specific hearings, congressional visits, and foreign assistance funding levels averaging around $50 million per year since 2015."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Garding, Sarah E.
2021-04-08
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Defense Primer: What Is Command and Control? [April 8, 2021]
From the Document: "The Department of Defense (DOD) defines command and control (C2) as '[t]he exercise of authority and direction by a properly designated commander over assigned forces in the accomplishment of the mission.' At its most fundamental level, C2 represents how DOD makes operational decisions. One can view C2 through the context of five variables: who, what, when, where, and how. Traditionally, Congress has focused on the authorities (the 'who') and technology (the 'how') variables, and less so on the force mix ('what'), temporal ('when'), and geographic ('where'). China and Russia have developed strategies to disrupt or potentially deny DOD its ability to make decisions; as a result, DOD is modernizing systems and processes to command and control military forces."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Hoehn, John R.; Campbell, Caitlin; Bowen, Andrew S.
2021-04-08
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U.S. Antipersonnel Landmine Use Policy [Updated April 8, 2021]
From the Document: "On January 31, 2020, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced a new policy on the use of antipersonnel landmines (APLs). According to a January 31, 2020, DOD memorandum, President Trump 'decided to cancel Presidential Policy Directive-37 (PPD-37),' which was issued by the Obama Administration in January 2016. The Administration adopted the new policy following an internal DOD review ordered by former Secretary of Defense James Mattis that was completed in 2018."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Feickert, Andrew; Kerr, Paul K.
2021-04-08
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National Emergency Powers [Updated April 8, 2021]
From the Summary: "The President of the United States has available certain powers that may be exercised in the event that the nation is threatened by crisis, exigency, or emergency circumstances (other than natural disasters, war, or near-war situations). Such powers may be stated explicitly or implied by the Constitution, assumed by the Chief Executive to be permissible constitutionally, or inferred from or specified by statute. Through legislation, Congress has made a great many delegations of authority in this regard over the past 230 years. There are, however, limits and restraints upon the President in his exercise of emergency powers. With the exception of the habeas corpus clause, the Constitution makes no allowance for the suspension of any of its provisions during a national emergency. Disputes over the constitutionality or legality of the exercise of emergency powers are judicially reviewable. Both the judiciary and Congress, as co-equal branches, can restrain the executive regarding emergency powers. So can public opinion. Since 1976, the President has been subject to certain procedural formalities in utilizing some statutorily delegated emergency authority. The National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. §§1601-1651) eliminated or modified some statutory grants of emergency authority, required the President to formally declare the existence of a national emergency and to specify what statutory authority activated by the declaration would be used, and provided Congress a means to countermand the President's declaration and the activated authority being sought. The development of this regulatory statute and subsequent declarations of national emergency are reviewed in this report."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Halchin, L. Elaine
2021-04-08
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Expiration of the Discretionary Spending Limits: Frequently Asked Questions [April 8, 2021]
From the Document: "In 2011, during a period in which many Members of Congress expressed concern over rising budget deficits, the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA, P.L. 112-25) established legal limits on the amount of discretionary spending that could be provided each fiscal year. Under the BCA, for each fiscal year, two separate spending limits have been in effect: one for defense discretionary spending and one for nondefense discretionary spending. To enforce the spending limits, the law requires that if discretionary appropriations are enacted that exceed a statutory limit for a fiscal year, an automatic process, referred to as sequestration, is triggered to eliminate the excess spending. Under current law, the discretionary spending limits are in effect only through FY2021. Unless the limits are extended in law, there are no similar statutory limits for FY2022 or beyond. This report addresses several frequently asked questions related to the expiration of the discretionary spending limits."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Lynch, Megan Suzanne; Driessen, Grant A.
2021-04-08
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House Committees Release Guidance for Transportation Earmarks [April 8, 2021]
From the Document: "The House Committee on Appropriations and Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure have separately announced that individual Members may request funding for specific transportation projects. This ends an effective ban on earmarks [hyperlink] that has been in force in the House since 2011. This Insight summarizes the new rules applicable to Member-designated transportation projects and points out certain matters that appear to remain unclear. A congressional designation, the formal term for an earmark [hyperlink], is a provision in a law or report language that has four basic attributes. It [1] is included at the request of a Member, Delegate, Commissioner, or Senator; [2] recommends a specific amount of discretionary budget authority, credit authority, or other budget authority; [3] is for an identifiable entity or targeted to a state, locality, or congressional district; and [4] is not awarded through a statutory or administrative formula-driven or competitive award process."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Kirk, Robert S.
2021-04-08
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FEMA Funeral Assistance for COVID-19 [Updated April 8, 2021]
From the Document: "Congress authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide Funeral Assistance for deaths associated with the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic through the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 [hyperlink] and the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 [hyperlink]. This Insight provides an overview of FEMA COVID-19 Funeral Assistance, including eligible expenses, applicant eligibility criteria, and award amounts."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Webster, Elizabeth M.
2021-04-08
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Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payments and COVID-19: Frequently Asked Questions [Updated April 8, 2021]
"In rare situations, Medicare Part A providers (e.g., acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and other inpatient care facilities) and Part B suppliers (e.g., physicians, nonphysician practitioners, durable medical equipment [DME] suppliers, and others who furnish outpatient services) face cash flow challenges due to specified circumstances beyond their control. Under such circumstances, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) can provide temporary relief through the accelerated payment program (Part A) and the advance payment program (Part B). CMS has offered these programs, collectively referred to as the Accelerated and Advance Payment (AAP) programs, in an attempt to alleviate some concerns about the financial challenges faced by Medicare suppliers and providers. These amounts eventually are recovered by Medicare, typically by withholding payment for subsequent claims up to the amount of the accelerated or advance payments. [...] This report addresses frequently asked questions about the Medicare AAP programs, including the terms and conditions of eligibility, payment amounts and sources of funds, recovery of payments, applicable interest charges, and administrative and legislative changes during the COVID-19 [coronavirus disease 2019] PHE [public health emergency]."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Hahn, Jim; Villagrana, Marco A.
2021-04-08
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MMWR Early Release: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, April 7, 2021: Factors Associated with Participation in Elementary School-Based SARS-CoV-2 Testing--Salt Lake County, Utah, December 2020-January 2021
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: "Factors Associated with Participation in Elementary School-Based Sars-Cov-2 [severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2] Testing--Salt Lake County, Utah, December 2020-January 2021." Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables from this issue can be accessed at the following link [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/index2021.html].
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
2021-04-07
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Open Skies Treaty: Background and Issues [Updated April 7, 2021]
From the Document: "The United States announced [hyperlink] its withdrawal [hyperlink] from the Treaty on Open Skies [hyperlink] on May 22, 2020; this withdrawal took effect [hyperlink] on November 22, 2020. The United States no longer participates in flights or shares data collected by others. Russia also announced [hyperlink] its plans [hyperlink] to withdraw, while beginning the domestic procedures for withdrawal on January 15, 2021. It has indicated that it will soon send its official notification to the other treaty parties. [...] The Biden Administration has not yet decided whether it will seek to rejoin the treaty, but recent reports [hyperlink] indicate the Administration has informed U.S. allies that it is concerned that rejoining the treaty could 'send the wrong message to Russia and undermine our position on the broader arms control agenda' if Russia continues to violate Open Skies. In addition, the Air Force [hyperlink] has removed the U.S. Open Skies aircraft from service and has taken steps to retire them."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Woolf, Amy F.
2021-04-07
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Funding U.S.-Mexico Border Barrier Construction: Current Issues [Updated April 7, 2021]
From the Document: "The construction of barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border to control unauthorized crossings has been a matter of significant debate since former President Donald Trump made construction of a border wall a key element of his campaign. This Insight provides a brief overview of the funding history for these barriers. On January 20, President Joe Biden issued a proclamation directing agencies to pause additional construction and obligation of funds pending collection of information and development of a plan to redirect some of the resources that had been dedicated to barrier construction, consistent with applicable appropriations law."
Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Painter, William L.; Mann, Christopher T.
2021-04-07
