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“The 110th Congress begins with major challenges and opportunities afoot at the UN, including proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, global health, and the environment. The Better World Campaign has prepared background information on the role of the UN in these issues and the many ways the United Nations and multilateralism advances America’s foreign …
Health Information Technology: Early Efforts Initiated but Comprehensive Privacy Approach Needed for National Strategy, Full text GAO-07-400T, and Highlights, February 1, 2007: “GAO identified key challenges associated with protecting electronic personal health information in four areas.”
Fiscal Stewardship: A Critical Challenge Facing Our Nation, GAO-07-362SP, January 31, 2007. “The U.S. government is the largest, most diverse, most complex, and arguably the most important entity on earth today. The United States is also a great nation. It has much to be proud of and much to be thankful for. However, our nation …
The Supreme Court Invalidates California’s “Determinate Sentencing” Law: Part One in a Two-Part Series on Yet More Cases Involving Judicial Factfinding in Sentencing, by Vikram David Amar.
“The Cornell Law Library is pleased to announce its new Legal Research Engine This specialized search engine helps users easily find authoritative online legal research guides on every subject. It searches approximately 20 different web sites that either prolifically publish guides, or index and link to guides.” [Julie M. Jones]
Project on Government Oversight’s(POGO) 2007 “Bakers Dozen of Suggested Congressional Oversight Priorities, February 1, 2007 includes the following topics: “1. Addressing Federal Contractor Misconduct; 2. Hidden Costs of Privatizing Government; 3. Executive Branch Revolving Door and Conflicts-of-Interest; 4. Whistleblower Retaliation; 5. The Black Hole that is Pentagon Spending; 6. Excessive Secrecy; 7. Defense Spending Priorities: …
“The Javelin 2007 Identity Fraud Survey Report provides a detailed, comprehensive analysis of identity fraud in the United States, in order to help consumers and businesses better understand the effectiveness of methods used for its prevention, detection and resolution. A nationally representative sample of over 5,000 US adults, including 458 fraud victims, is surveyed via …
Press release: “After completing its notification of levee owners, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today released the locations of the levee units nationwide with unacceptable maintenance inspection ratings. An unacceptable maintenance rating means a levee has one or more deficient conditions that can reasonably be foreseen to prevent the project from functioning as designed. …
