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Mr. Thomas F. Gimble Principal Deputy Inspector General Department of Defense before the House Armed Services Committee on Accountability During Contingency Operations: Preventing and Fighting Corruption in Contracting and Establishing and Maintaining Appropriate Controls on Materiel, September 20, 2007. See also related government documents: Opening Statement of Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO), Hearing on Accountability During …
OIG-07-70 – Independent Review of The U.S. Coast Guard’s Reporting of FY 2006 Drug Control Funds (PDF, 18 pages)
House Committee on Homeland Security – Protecting the Protectors: Ensuring the Health and Safety of our First Responders in the Wake of Catastrophic Disasters, September 20, 2007.
Newsweek, Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Sept. 20, 2007 – “The nations biggest telecommunications companies, working closely with the White House, have mounted a secretive lobbying campaign to get Congress to quickly approve a measure wiping out all private lawsuits against them for assisting the U.S. intelligence communitys warrantless surveillance programs. The campaignwhich involves some …
Department of Defense, Director of Defense Research and Engineering: August 24, 2007 memorandum on the Need to Increase Science and Technology Funding
U.S. Courts release: “The Judicial Conference of the United States today voted to make transcripts of federal district and bankruptcy court proceedings available online through the Judiciary’s Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. Under the new policy, transcripts created by court reporters or transcribers will be available for inspection and copying in a …
EPIC: “The United States Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing entitled An Examination of the Google-Doubleclick Merger and the Online Advertising Industry: What Are the Risks for Competition and Privacy on Thursday, September 27. Dave Drummond of Google, Brad Smith of Microsoft, Scott Cleland of Precursor, Tom Lenard of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, …
“The Environmental Protection Agency has ignored the recent Supreme Court decision that CO2 is an air pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and approved a permit for a new coal-fired power plant without regulating its CO2 emissions or considering the impact of the new power plant on global warming. In a letter to EPA …
Follow up to September 18, 2007 posting, 2007 Annual Urban Mobility Report, see this National Science Foundation press release, Powerful Tool Crunches Commutes: “Tied to a statistical database that tracks how traffic conditions develop–over the course of a “rush hour,” for example–the software suggests a commute based on congestion that may arise, not traffic status …
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Additional Flexibility Needed to Deal with Farmlands Received from the Department of Agriculture GAO-07-1092, September 18, 2007 Defense Logistics: Army and Marine Corps Cannot Be Assured That Equipment Reset Strategies Will Sustain Equipment Availability While Meeting Ongoing Operational Requirements, GAO-07-814, September 19, 2007 Alaska Native Corporations: Increased Use of Special …
Audit of Hurricane Katrina and Wilma Activities, City of Miami, Florida, Public Assistance ID No. 086-45000-00, FEMA Disasters Nos. 1602 and 1609-DR-FL, Report No. DA-07-11 (PDF, 5 pages) Audit of Federal Emergency Management Agency Public Assistance Grant Funding Awarded to the State of Washington’s Department of General Administration After the Nisqually Earthquake, Audit Report No. …
“The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER), in cooperation with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is pleased to present the ABA-EPA Law Office Climate Challenge (Climate Challenge). The Climate Challenge is designed to encourage law offices to take specific steps to conserve energy and resources, as well as reduce …
