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“On Thursday, May 10..the Domestic Policy Subcommittee…evaluate[d] incompleteness in the federal database used for checking the criminal and mental health records of gun purchasers, as well as the inconsistencies in state compliance with federal gun purchase laws. The hearing…address[ed] inconsistencies among the states in their supplemental gun prohibition laws. The hearing…concern[ed] state compliance with the …
“In January 2007, there were 490 federal prosecutions of white collar crime, according to timely enforcement data from the Justice Department. Filings in this category are down 13% from the previous month, reaching their lowest level in the last five years….Reports on the latest enforcement trends.” [Jeff Lamicela, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC)]
The Wiki of The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit provides Electronic Access to Seventh Circuit Case Information, Rules, Procedures and Opinions. This is the first public wiki launched by the federal judiciary. According to Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook, who spearheaded the wiki project, and reported by the National Law Journal, “The …
Are Americans Ready to Elect a Female President? Past Statewide Elections Suggest Gender Is Not an Obstacle — at Least for Democratic Candidates – by Andrew Kohut, President, Pew Research Center, May 9, 2007.
Infrastructure 2007 – A Global Perspective, Urban Land Institute (69 pages, PDF): “Today, more than ever before, the ability to build, maintain, and finance infrastructure has become a crisis for communities around the world. Infrastructure is the skeleton around which the city is built. Ranging from radial hub and spoke systems, new town centers, villages, …
Governors and State Legislators Submit Comments on the Draft Regulations to Implement the Real ID Act, May 8, 2007 DHS’s Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee Comment on the Real ID, May 7, 2007 FCW.com reports that the DHS Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee announced at a May 7, 2007 meeting that “cannot endorse …
The People Who Shape Our World: “Here’s our list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world.”
House Report 110-131, May 7, 2007: The Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 2082) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2008 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes, having …
Federal Register notice: May 10, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 90), “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a guidance for industry entitled Computerized Systems Used in Clinical Investigations, dated May 2007. This document provides to sponsors, contract research organizations, data management centers, clinical investigators, and institutional review boards, recommendations regarding the …
Press release: “Many of the worlds leading scientific institutions today announced the launch of the Encyclopedia of Life, an unprecedented global effort to document all 1.8 million named species of animals, plants, and other forms of life on Earth. For the first time in the history of the planet, scientists, students, and citizens will have …
D-2007-093 DoD Compliance with the Federal Managers Financial Integrity Act of 1982 (May 8, 2007) (Project D2006-D000FA-0106.000) PDF and Summary.
Full Committee on Agriculture Public Hearing, May 9, 2007. To review the impact of imported contaminated food and feed ingredients and of recent food safety emergencies on food safety and animal health systems. Witnesses: Panel I Dr. Kenneth E. Petersen, Food Safety Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Dr. David Acheson, …
