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Press release: “On September 22, 2006, the President signed the United States’ instrument of ratification for the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime. Today, the United States became a party to the Convention upon deposit of the instrument of ratification at the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. The Convention will enter …
Press Release, September 29, 2006: “The Commerce Department announced it has signed a Joint Project Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to continue the transition of the coordination of the technical functions relating to the management of the Internet Domain Name and Addressing System to the private sector.” Joint Project …
“The 2006 national study presents findings from both a national survey and case sites. The national survey provides provides longitudinal data regarding public library Internet connectivity and public access computing services and resources, but also explores the impacts and benefits that communities derive from public library connectivity. The case sites focused primarily on successfully networked …
Conference Report (H. Rept. 109-699) to HR 5441 as agreed by the House and Senate conferees. House Committee on Appropriations press press release, September 25, 2006: “The conference agreement provides $34.8 billion for operations and activities of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in fiscal year 2007, an increase of $2.3 billion above fiscal year …
House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, joint hearing, September 28. 2006: Hezbollah’s Global Reach. Statements (PDF): The Honorable Edward R. Royce, The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Frank C. Urbancic, Jr., Mr. John Kavanagh, Eitan Azani, Ph.D., Mr. Christopher Hamilton, Mr. …
D-2006-123 Program Management of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon Increment I (09/29/2006) View Summary Only (Project D2006-D000AE-0154.000) “This special version of the report has been revised to omit attorney client privilege, predecisional, and source selection sensitive data. The full report is For Official Use Only (FOUO). To request a copy of the full report, file …
Preliminary annual report on U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-Year 2005, September 29, 2006.
Press release: “FDA is announcing today that all spinach implicated in the current outbreak has traced back to Natural Selection Foods LLC of San Juan Bautista, California. This determination is based on epidemiological and laboratory evidence obtained by multiple states and coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Natural Selection Foods issued a …
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations that protecting the privacy of consumers’ telephone records requires a multi-faceted approach. Joel Winston, Associate Director of FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, said that coordinated law enforcement efforts targeting pretexters, steps by telephone …
Press release, Friday, September 29, 2006: “Following Mr. Abramoff’s guilty plea in January, President Bush and other top White House officials issued repeated statements that Mr. Abramoff was a virtual stranger to the White House. The documents reviewed by the Committee tell a different story. They show that between January 2001 and March 2004, there …
Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the January-March 2006 National Health Interview Survey, (Released 9/28/2006)
Law Librarian One of Top Ten Finalists for Animal Planet Hero of the Year Award, by Kara Phillips Bios of the Hero of the Year Nominees. You can cast your vote here, until October 6.
