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Via Daniel Schuman, The Sunlight Foundation: “SCOUT is a new free alert service that allows you search and create email or text alerts on legislation shaping issues you care about in Congress and across all fifty states. Scout also makes it easy to search federal regulations and what is actually said by lawmakers in the …
Unauthorized Alien Students: Issues and DREAM Act Legislation, Andorra Bruno, Specialist in Immigration Policy, June 19, 2012 “Unauthorized aliens in the United States are able to receive free public education through high school. They may experience difficulty obtaining higher education, however, for several reasons. Among these reasons is a provision enacted in 1996 that prohibits …
FDAs Contribution to the Drug Shortage Crisis, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Report, U.S. House of Representatives, 112th Congress, June 15, 2012. “American patients and doctors currently confront an unprecedented shortage of critical drugs. The widespread shortages are causing inferior treatment regimens, interruptions in care, higher health care costs, and even premature death. The …
News release: “ – Call on Congress is the Sunlight Foundation’s new free service to help anyone with a telephone connect with and learn about their lawmakers. Simply dial 1-888-907-6886 to find out how your representatives are voting on bills and raising campaign money and learn about upcoming bills in Congress. While Sunlight prides itself …
News release – June 6, 2012: “U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) released a new oversight report, Money for Nothing highlighting more than $70 billion in federal funds left unspent years after being appropriated by Congress due to poorly drafted laws, bureaucratic obstacles and mismanagement, and a general lack of interest or demand from the communities …
News release: “The House Appropriations Committee today released the fiscal year 2013 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The bill provides annual funding for the Treasury Department, the Executive Office of the President, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, the Small Business Administration, the General Services Administration, …
Daniel Schuman and Eric Mill: “House Appropriators may deal a tremendous blow to prospects for improving public access to legislative information. In a draft report expected to accompany the Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill for 2013…appropriators misunderstand how data can be “authenticated,” and kick responsibility for improving public access to legislative data to a non-public task …
What Is Systemic Risk? Does It Apply to Recent JP Morgan Losses?, Edward V. Murphy Specialist in Financial Economics, May 24, 2012 “JP Morgan recently disclosed that it suffered significant losses in a unit that traded complex financial instruments. Congress will be examining the JP Morgan trades and oversight by JP Morgans regulators. Two of …
News release: “This morning, the House Judiciary Committee held an important hearing on the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) and the scope of the NSAs warrantless wiretapping program. The FAA, which gutted privacy protections governing the interception international phone calls and e-mail to and from the United States, is set to expire at the end of …
The Military Lending Act Five Years Later – Impact On Servicemembers, the High-Cost Small Dollar Loan Market, and the Campaign against Predatory Lending, Jean Ann Fox, Consumer Federation of America – May 29, 2012 The Military Lending Act set an inclusive 36 percent annual rate cap for loans made to covered service members and their …
News release: “The Federal Trade Commission testified before Congress about the agencys efforts to protect consumer privacy, including the FTCs support for implementation of a Do Not Track mechanism that would allow consumers to control the tracking of their online activities across websites, and other approaches recommended in its recent privacy report. In delivering Commission …
Table Egg Production and Hen Welfare: The UEP-HSUS Agreement and H.R. 3798, May 14, 2012 “The United Egg Producers (UEP), the largest group representing egg producers, and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), the largest animal protection group, have been adversaries for many years over the use of conventional cages in table egg …
