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Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification, Andorra Bruno, Specialist in Immigration Policy. March 19, 2013 The 113th Congress is expected to take up comprehensive immigration reform. Some of the most difficult immigration policy questions on the table concern unauthorized immigration and unauthorized employment. Todays discussions about these issues build on the work of prior Congresses. In 1986, …
Statement for the Record – Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, March 12, 2013 “This year, in both content and organization, this statement illustrates how quickly and radically the worldand our threat environmentare changing. This environment is demanding reevaluations of the …
Secret Sessions of the House and Senate: Authority, Confidentiality, and Frequency. Christopher M. Davis, Analyst on Congress and the Legislative Process. March 15, 2013 “Secret, or closed, sessions of the House and Senate exclude the press and the public. They may be held for matters deemed to require confidentiality and secrecysuch as national security, sensitive …
JPMorgan Chase Whale Trades: A Case History of Derivatives Risks and Abuses. Majority and Minority Staff Report, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, March 15, 2013. “JPMorgan Chase & Company is the largest financial holding company in the United States, with $2.4 trillion in assets. It is also the largest derivatives dealer in the world and the …
Party Leaders in the United States Congress, 1789-2013. Valerie Heitshusen – Analyst on Congress and the Legislative Process. March 4, 2013 “This report briefly describes current responsibilities and selection mechanisms for 15 House and Senate party leadership posts and provides tables with historical data, including service dates, party affiliation, and other information for each. Tables …
Gun Control Proposals in the 113th Congress: Universal Background Checks, Gun Trafficking, and Military Style Firearms, William J. Krouse. Specialist in Domestic Security and Crime Policy, March 1, 2013 “Congress has debated the efficacy and constitutionality of federal regulation of firearms and ammunition, with strong advocates arguing for and against greater gun control. The mass …
Open and Unimplemented – IG Recommendations Could Save Taxpayers $67 Billion, Staff Report Prepared for Chairman Darrell Issa, House of Representatives, 113th Congress, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. March 5, 2013 “The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has jurisdiction over the IG community. This staff report is a compilation of four years …
CRS – The 2013 Cybersecurity Executive Order: Overview and Considerations for Congress, March 1, 2013 “The federal role in cybersecurity has been a topic of discussion and debate for over a decade. Despite significant legislative efforts in the 112th Congress, no major legislation on this topic has been enacted since the Federal Information Security Management …
“EPIC has obtained a court order and an opinion in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, requiring the agency to turn over more documents about the monitoring of social media and Internet media organizations. EPIC had previously obtained several hundred pages of documents, revealing that the agency monitors the …
The Distribution of Cited U.S. Congressional Committee Documents in the Academic Journal Literature: An Historical Survey, by John Spencer Walters, Regional Depository Librarian at Utah State University “This paper is the culmination of a six-year effort to reveal the citation patterns of U.S. congressional committee level publications in the professional journal literature. Using the Web …
“Sequestration, sometimes called the sequester, is a process that automatically cuts the federal budget across most departments and agencies. Congress included the threat of sequestration in the Budget Control Act of 2011 as a way to encourage compromise on deficit reduction efforts. Congress couldnt agree on a budget by the deadline set in the Budget …
CRS – Multilateral Development Banks: U.S. Contributions FY2000-FY2013, Rebecca M. Nelson. Analyst in International Trade and Finance. February 1, 2013 “This report shows in tabular form how much the Administration requested and how much Congress appropriated for U.S. payments to the multilateral development banks (MDBs) since 2000. It also provides a brief description of the …
