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Press release: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today its intent to propose, as part of the forthcoming Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), significant flexibility regarding travel documents required for U.S. and Canadian children as part of WHTI requirements for U.S. land and sea border entry in 2008. …
Press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA) released a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report [U.S. Attorneys Who Have Served Less than Full Four-year Terms, 1981-2006, February 22, 2007] showing the recent firing of seven U.S. Attorneys is unprecedented. Conyers and Sanchez requested the study, which found …
The Nation’s Report Card: 12th-Grade Reading and Mathematics 2005, February 2007 – Authors: Wendy Grigg, Patricia Donahue, and Gloria Dion – Released February 22, 2007 Americas High School Graduates: Results from the 2005 NAEP High School Transcript Study, Released February 22, 2007
Congressional Budget Office – The Cyclically Adjusted and Standardized Budget Measures, February 2007
Leaking Underground Storage Tanks: EPA Should Take Steps to Better Ensure the Effective Use of Public Funding for Cleanups GAO-07-152, February 8, 2007. “States estimated that fully cleaning up about 54,000 of the approximately 117,000 releases (leaks) known to them as of September 30, 2005, will cost about $12 billion in public funds. The Environmental …
Pew Research Center, Americans and Social Trust: Who, Where and Why February 22, 2007: “Social trust is a belief in the honesty, integrity and reliability of others – a “faith in people.” It’s a simple enough concept to describe. But it’s never been easy to figure out who trusts, or why.”
A Comprehensive Emergency Management Program – A Model for State and Territorial Courts 2007 , February 2007 (187 pages, PDF). “A Comprehensive Emergency Management Program (EMP) consists of… six elements [Program Management Program Management, Prevention, Preparedness, Response, Recovery, Training]…As new plans and programs that address one or more of these elements are developed, they will …
GAO Drops Two Areas and Adds Three To 2007 High Risk List, January 31, 2007: Food Safety, Protection of Technologies and Transportation Finance Are New Entires.
