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Press Release: FEMA Was Not Forthright with Congressional Investigators, House Oversight and Government Reform Full Committee Hearing on FEMA’s Toxic Trailers, July 19, 2007 “Apparently, the problem of unsafe formaldehyde levels in FEMA trailers was more widespread than initially acknowledged. And FEMAs reaction to the problem was deliberately stunted to bolster the agencys litigation position. …
Congressional Budget Office Background Paper: The Impact of Medicare’s Payment Rates on the Volume of Services Provided by Skilled Nursing Facilities, July 2007, (32 pages, PDF)
Press release, July 19, 2007: “The Department of Justice today submitted to Congress new proposed legislation that seeks to update and improve current laws aimed at protecting Americans from the increasingly sophisticated crime of identity theft. The proposed bill, titled the Identity Theft Enforcement and Restitution Act of 2007, was a significant recommendation included in …
Press release: “The United States could provide more than half of Cuba’s agricultural, fish, and forest product imports if certain U.S. trade and travel restrictions to Cuba were lifted, reports the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) in its publication U.S. Agricultural Sales to Cuba: Certain Economic Effects of U.S. Restrictions. The U.S. share of such …
A CBO Study: The All-Volunteer Military: Issues and Performance, July 2007 (49 pages, PDF) – Report prepared at the request of the Chairman [John Murtha] of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee.
Clean Water Act Jurisdictional Handbook [link to free download requiring registration]: “In June 2006 the Supreme Court, in a decision that split 4-1-4, produced a result in Rapanos v. United States that makes federal Clean Water Act jurisdiction over the wetlands, streams, and other waters of the United States confusing and uncertain for citizens, landowners, …
Bureau of Justice Statistics – Deaths in Custody Statistical Tables, by Christopher J. Mumola, BJS Policy Analyst and Margaret E. Noonan, BJS Statistician. “This site contains a series of data tables describing recent trends in mortality in State prison, local jails and State juvenile correctional facilities. Data are presented over time, by jurisdiction and by …
“On January 8, 2007, the Central Intelligence Agency submitted a proposed rule for public comment on Freedom of Information Act processing fees to the Federal Register. The CIA has reviewed and carefully considered all of the comments that were submitted in response to our proposal. As a result of that review, the CIA hereby issues …
Follow up to previous postings on July 2, 2007, Social Security Number Protection Act of 2007, on July 18 the House Ways and Means Committee passed the Social Security Number Privacy and Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007. House Committee on Ways and Means press release: “During the course of the 16 hearings conducted by …
Press release: “Numerous environmental benefits of buying high-performance, environmentally friendly computer equipment are highlighted in the first annual report issued by the Green Electronics Council this week. The report, called The Environmental Benefits of the Purchase or Sale of EPEAT Registered Products in 2006, states that the purchase of more than 36 million EPA approved …
