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Spending and Funding for Highways, Economic and Budget Issue Brief, January 20, 2011 “The nation’s network of highways plays a vital role in the U.S. economy; private commercial activity and people’s daily lives depend on that transportation infrastructure. In 2007, the public sector spent $146 billion to build, operate, and maintain highways in the United …
Analysis of Federal Civilian and Military Compensation, January 20, 2011 Letter to the Honorable Steny H. Hoyer “The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) was asked to compare federal civilian and military compensation. Total compensation can be divided into three components:cash compensation (including pay, cash allowances, and bonuses); noncash benefits (such as subsidized health insurance and child …
Follow up to Justice Scalia’s Comments on equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, via Slate – Who Does Justice Look Like? Her changing features and skin color over the centuries, by Dennis Curtis and Judith Resnik “Justice Antonin Scalia recently reminded us that when the 14th Amendment was …
Google search and search engine spam: “As weve increased both our size and freshness in recent months, weve naturally indexed a lot of good content and some spam as well. To respond to that challenge, we recently launched a redesigned document-level classifier that makes it harder for spammy on-page content to rank highly. The new …
Domestic Intelligence: New Powers, New Risks [released 01/18/11], by Emily Berman – Counsel in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice “Successful domestic counterterrorism policy is vital to keep the homeland safe. In this effort, policymakers must resist the oft-exhibited tendency to overreact to the threats we face. This overreaction, …
News release: “During the third quarter of 2010, there were 1,325 reported violations of the Federal Bank Robbery and Incidental Crimes Statute, an increase from the 1,212 reported violations in the same quarter of 2009. According to statistics released today by the FBI, there were 1,310 robberies, 13 burglaries, two larcenies and six extortions of …
Economy, Jobs Top Public’s Policy Agenda – No Consensus about Future of Health Care Legislation, January 20, 2011
“Jan. 21, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Courts 5-4 decision in Citizens United, the ruling that loosened restrictions on corporate and union campaign spending. Despite wide bipartisan support for reform, corporate, securities and election laws across the country remain largely unchanged to this day. Public financing vigorously pushed in the wake …
NYT – Federal Research Center Will Help Develop Medicines: “The Obama administration has become so concerned about the slowing pace of new drugs coming out of the pharmaceutical industry that officials have decided to start a billion-dollar government drug development center to help create medicines.” FAQ – Proposed National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences: “Why …
Working In Retirement: A 21st Century Phenomenon, by Melissa Brown, Kerstin Aumann, Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Ellen Galinsky and James T. Bond “Working in retirement may still sound like an oxymoron, but not for long. Just as people in their twenties are now creating a new life stage of transitioning into the workforce, the generation of workers …
National Security Cyberspace Institute – Federal Government Cybersecurity Progress: Obama Administration Report Card 2009-Present What follows is an “Obama Administration Report Card,” whereby we have awarded grades for progress against a number of the recommendations contained in the 60-Day Review, or “Hathaway Report” as it is commonly called. The Hathaway Report contained recommendations broken down …
Writing Reform: A Guide to Drafting State & Local Campaign Finance Laws (2010 Revised Edition), by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy “The Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law has designed this manual for people who want to draft campaign finance reform legislation that is both appropriate for their community and sensitive to constitutional …
