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Press release: “Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and Public Opinion Strategies will release a report today, co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress, that reveals broad public concern about the growing problem of household debt in America. The national survey results…show that Americans have considerable consensus about how to address this issue…Ultimately, respondents hold individuals responsible …
Press release: “A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, or technology. Blogs, the survey finds, are as individual as the people who keep them. However, most …
Where the Jobs Are: Locating Law Librarian Jobs Made Easy presented by the Placement Committee at the 2006 Annual Meeting.
House Intelligence to Hold Open Hearing on Modernizing FISA, July 19, 2006. Statement of Jim Dempsey, Policy Director, Center for Democracy and Technology, July 19, 2006 (13 pages, PDF) ABA President’s Testimony to House Intelligence Committee Hearing on Domestic Surveillance, July 19, 2006 Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy Executive Director Kim …
The House failed to override the President’s veto of HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, by roll call vote #388, 235 yeas to 193 nays. H.R. 810 ENR, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 – Senate passes Stem Cell Bill amending the Public Health Service Act to provide for human embryonic stem …
Press release: “JupiterResearch, a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer technologies on business, reveals that 35 percent of large companies plan to institute corporate Weblogs this year. Combined with the existing deployed base of 34 percent, nearly 70 percent of all site operators will have implemented corporate blogs by the …
2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, from Wikipedia [use at your own discretion]
Subcommittee on Federal Workforce and Agency Organization, hearing entitled Telecommuting: A 21st Century Solution to Traffic Jams and Terrorism, July 18, 2006. Links to opening statements and witness testimony
Producer Price Index News Release text (20 pages, PDF) Technical notes Table 1. Producer price indexes and percent changes by stage of processing Table 2. Producer price indexes and percent changes for selected commodity groupings by stage of processing Table 3. Producer price indexes for selected commodity groupings Table 4. Producer price indexes for the …
From OMB Watch, published July 17, 2006: “This issue brief discusses the leading sunset commission proposals and identifies whether they live up to their promise of cutting waste and improving management of federal programs, or whether they present new problems.” Sunset Commission Legislation in the 109th Congress (18 pages, PDF)
Press release: “Rep. Heather Wilson, chair of the House Subcommittee on Technical and Tactical Intelligence was joined today by Reps. James Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Pete Hoekstra, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in introducing the Electronic Surveillance Modernization Act of 2006, an update to the outdated Foreign …
Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, updated July 13, 2006 (48 pages, PDF) Israel: Background and Relations with the United States, updated May 18, 2006 (19 pages, PDF) Lebanon, updated June 8, 2006 (19 pages, PDF) Syria: U.S. Relations and Bilateral Issues, updated June 22, 2006 (22 pages, PDF)
