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Senate Judiciary Committee, Full Committee, “Judicial Security and Independence“, February 14, 2007 Testimony from Supreme Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy : “Judicial independence is not conferred so judges can do as they please. Judicial independence is conferred so judges can do as they must. A judiciary with permanent tenure, with a sufficient degree of separation …
CentCom PowerPoint Slides Briefed to White House and Rumsfeld in 2002, Obtained by National Security Archive through Freedom of Information Act – PowerPoints Reflect Internal Debates Over Size and Timing of Invasion Force – National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 214 – Edited by Joyce Battle and Thomas Blanton “The U.S. Central Command’s war …
110’/123′ Maritime Patrol Boat Modernization Project, United States Coast Guard, OIG-07-27 (PDF, 32 pages), February 14, 2007.
House Appropriations Committee, How the President’s Budget Request Compares to the Joint Funding Resolution, February 14, 2007 (6 pages, PDF) Related postings on the FY08 budget
FAA’s FY 2008 Budget Request: Key Issues Facing the Agency –February 14, 2007, Testimony by the Inspector General, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Aviation, Project ID: CC-2007-019. “FAA is requesting $14.1 billion for FY 2008, an increase of $328 million from its FY 2007 budget request. However, …
How Reliable Are the Early Presidential Polls? Released: February 14, 2007: “The flurry of candidate announcements in an open race has spurred media attention to the 2008 presidential contest even earlier in the electoral cycle than usual. But followers of early poll readings on the relative viability of declared candidates should bear in mind some …
WSJ free feature today: Candidates Find A New Stump In the Blogosphere: “Candidates of both parties are already buying space on search engines, blogs and other Internet sites popular with political junkies and potential donors. With 18 candidates vying for the most open race for the White House in 80 years and front-runners on both …
H.R. 985, the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2007, was introduced by Reps. Waxman, Platts, Van Hollen, and T. Davis on February 12, 2007. Bill Summary: Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 Full Text: Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2007 Written Testimony of Nick Schwellenbach, Investigator, Project On Government Oversight (POGO) before the House Oversight …
Science.gov 4.0 New Features: “Now you can refine your search queries, email your search results and sort your results in a variety of ways using Science.gov Version 4.0. In addition, DeepRank, a more sophisticated ranking algorithm, has been deployed.” “Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided …
Follow up to February 12, 2007 posting, House Concurrent Resolution Opposing Deployment of More Troops to Iraq, see today’s transcript of a speech by Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, Member of House Foreign Relations Committee, disapproving of President Bush’s decision to deploy additional troops to Iraq, as well as the text of the statement on this …
Passenger Rail Security: Federal Strategy and Enhanced Coordination Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts, by Cathleen A. Berrick, director, homeland security and justice issues, before the Subcommittee on Homeland Security, House Committee on Appropriations. GAO-07-459T, and Highlights, February 13, 2007.
Follow up to a January 1, 2007 postings on the Chief Justice’s Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, wherein his primary topic was the need for judicial pay raises, see today’s report that the “American Bar Association’s House of Delegates, which sets policy for the organization, voted on February 12 to urge Congress to give …
