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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Reconstruction Efforts: Includes links to Useful Internet Sites, U.S. Government Documents, Speeches, Fact Sheets, Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS).
Federal Times: “British authorities broke up an alleged terrorist plot to bomb U.S.-bound airliners last week in part because of improvements in the way U.S. intelligence agencies are sharing information, according to the Homeland Security Departments chief intelligence officer.”
Follow up to August 16, 2006 posting, CBO Cost Estimate for Pension Protection Act of 2006, see today’s Presidential signing statement and Fact Sheet: The Pension Protection Act of 2006: Ensuring Greater Retirement Security for American Workers.
Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA: “Women-owned firms increased nearly 20 percent over the latest period studied, according to a report, Women in Business: A Demographic Review of Womens Business Ownership, released by the Office of Advocacy.” Full Report (45 pages, PDF) Research Summary Press Release
Congressional Budget Office’s The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update, August 2006 (88 pages, PDF). “CBO now expects the 2006 deficit to total $260 billion.” See also the 5 page Summary
New York Times – With a New Classification System, the New York Public Library Makes a Change for the Clearer: “Librarians have begun a yearlong project to reorganize, reclassify and update the roughly 25,000 reference works on the rooms open shelves. When they are done, officials promise, readers will have a much easier time locating …
eJournal USA: Rebuilding and Resilience – Five Years After 9/11 9/11/2006 – Fifth Anniversary – Web Resources
EPA OIG Report No. 2006-P-00029, Studies Addressing EPA’s Organizational Structure, August 16, 2006 [Report PDF – 41 pages] [At a Glance]
The Top 100 Most Prestigious Firms, 2006.
Via ACLU, ACLU v. NSA Federal Court Decision,(8/17/2006) Via U.S. District Court, ED of Michigan, ACLU v National Security Agency, 44 pages, PDF. “Description: In the first federal challenge ever argued against the Bush administration’s NSA spying program, U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor rules that the program to monitor the phone calls and …
WikiMatrix: “A tool to compare the features of various popular wiki engines in comfortable side-by-side tables.”
“Inventory of Approved Information Collections (updated daily) – This listing includes all collections of information from the public for which a Federal agency has received prior approval from OMB, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act. An ongoing collection must be approved by OMB at least once every three years.” RegInfo.gov
