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Treasury: “The final results from the annual survey of foreign portfolio holdings of U.S. securities at end-June 2005 are released today and posted on the U.S. Treasury web site. The survey was undertaken jointly by the U.S. Treasury, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.” …
Follow-up to March 31, 2006 posting, see Iraq Index: Tracking Variables of Reconstruction and Security in Post-Saddam Iraq, Brookings Institution, June 29, 2006 (57 pages, PDF)
Senate Report 109-273 – Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill (127 pages, PDF), June 29. 2006
Press release: “Today the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the FY 2007 Homeland Security Appropriations bill. The bill recommends $31,730,000,000 in discretionary spending for the Department of Homeland Security. This is $715,000,000 more than the Presidents fiscal year 2007 discretionary spending request and $1,472,299,000 more than the fiscal year 2006 enacted level, excluding emergency supplemental appropriations.”
DOJ IT Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2006 – 2011
Review of the Senate’s FY2007 Energy & Water Development Appropriations Bill, June 29, 2006.
“The National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) provides a coordinated approach to critical infrastructure and key resource protection roles and responsibilities for federal, state, local, tribal, and private sector security partners. The NIPP sets national priorities, goals, and requirements for effective distribution of funding and resources which will help ensure that our government, economy, and public …
Following up on recent postings that appeared in chronological order as follows: Government Mines Global Financial Data in War on Terror; Disclosure of Terrorist Finance Tracking Program; and Controversy Abroad Over Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, two related articles that claim that the program’s work was known in various communities: Reports of US Monitoring of SWIFT …
Security Legislative Hearing on H.R. 5219, the “Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2006,” June 29, 2006. Chairman’s Opening Statement: “H.R. 5219 establishes an independent Inspector General within the Judicial Branch who is appointed by and reports directly to the Chief Justice of the United States. The Inspector General will conduct investigations of complaints …
“MEDNET is a scientific conference organized of under the auspices of the Society for the Internet in Medicine (SIM).” Browse by Author or Title available for papers authored by experts around the world.
House Committee on Financial Services: “Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 227-183 in favor of a resolution [H. Res. 895] introduced yesterday by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Michael G. Oxley (OH), which expresses the sense of the House in support of U.S. government programs to track terrorist financing and to condemn illegal disclosure …
From the Private Law Libraries Special Interest Section of AALL, this Revised Marketing Toolkit (June 27, 2006), includes content in the following categories: Mission Statement, Competencies for Head Law Librarian, Commonly Asked Questions and Answers, Bibliography, and Statistics Handbook.
