Here’s what caught our eye this week:

KEY ADMINISTRATION ACTIONS

White House:

• Statement by Press Secretary Jen Psaki on President Biden’s Call with President Xi Jingping of the People’s Republic of China
• Remarks by President Biden on the Assistance the United States is Providing to Ukraine
• Fact Sheet on U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine
• Readout of Supply Chain Event Launching Data Initiative for Greater Supply Chain Resilience
• Readout of the March National Climate Task Force Meeting
• Fact Sheet: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Initiative to Improve Supply Chain Data Flow

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative:

• United States and United Kingdom to Host U.S./UK Dialogues on the Future of Atlantic Trade in Baltimore, Maryland

Department of Commerce:

• Commerce Department Identifies Commercial and Private Aircraft Exported to Russia in Violation of U.S. Export Controls

Department of Defense:

• Statement by Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on Security Assistance for Ukraine

Department of Treasury:

• Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs Task Force Ministerial Joint Statement
• U.S. Department of Treasury and Justice Launch Multilateral Russian Oligarch Task Force
• Treasury Sanctions Russians Connected to Gross Human Rights Violations and Corrupt Leader of Belarus

Department of Homeland Security:

• Secretary Mayorkas Announces New Homeland Security Advisory Council Members

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency:

• Mitigating Threats Posed by Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors’ Exploitation of Default Multifactor Authentication Protocol and “Printnightmare” Vulnerability

Department of Energy:

• DOE Announces $5 Million to Launch Lithium-Battery Workforce Initiative
• DOE and European Commission Support Collaboration Between the U.S. Li-Bridge Alliance and European Battery Alliance to Strengthen Supply Chain for Battery Technologies
• ICYMI: Secretary Granholm Traveled to Michigan to Highlight Efforts to Bolster U.S. Supply Chains

Department of State:

• Welcoming the International Court of Justice’s Order Directing the Russian Federation to Immediately Suspend Military Operations in Ukraine
• $1 Billion in New U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine This Week
• Additional Humanitarian Assistance for the People of Ukraine
• U.S. Announces Sanctions on Key Members of Russia’s Defense Enterprise

Export-Import Bank of the United States:

• READOUT: EXIM Chair’s Council on China Competition Meets to Discuss Current State of Global Competition, Subcommittee Recommendations

CONGRESSIONAL ACTION

U.S. -China Economic and Security Review Commission:

• Hearing: China’s Energy Plans and Practices

House Ways and Means Committee:

• Neal Statement on House Passage of Ways and Means Legislation to Suspend Normal Trading Relations with Russia and Belarus

House Foreign Affairs Committee:

• Upcoming Hearing: Implications of the Ukraine Crisis for US Policy in the Indo Pacific

House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology:

• Hearing: Setting the Standards: Strengthening U.S. Leadership in Technical Standards

Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee:

• Peters & Portman Landmark Provision Requiring Critical Infrastructure to Report Cyber-Attacks Signed into Law as Part of Funding Bill

Senate Foreign Relations Committee:

• Menendez, Risch on Elimination of Press Freedom in Russia
• Hearing: Combatting Authoritarianism: U.S. Tools and Responses

Senate Finance Committee:

• Memorandum: Repealing Normal Trade Relations with Russia in Response to Ongoing Russian Invasion of Ukraine
• Crapo: To Hold Putin Accountable, Congress Must Pass PNTR Suspension and Russian Oil Ban
• Hearing: The Promise and Challenge of Strategic Trade Engagement in the Indo-Pacific Region

Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee:

• Upcoming Hearing: Developing Next Generation Technology for Innovation

SILVERADO NEWS

• GEOPOLITICS: Foreign Affairs: The Dangers of Putin’s Paranoia by Dmitri Alperovitch
• CYBERSECURITY: Silverado’s Dmitri Alperovitch Appointed to Homeland Security Advisory Council
• GEOPOLITICS: Event Recap: War for Ukraine