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WSJ: “A committee of 12 lawmakers — three from each chamber and each party — will try to find at least $1.2 trillion in deficit-reduction measures by the end of November. Nine of the members have been named so far.”
The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition? – Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. DATE: September 21, 2011
Sunlight Foundation: “The House Ethics Committee is responsible for investigating and making recommendations on the enforcement of House ethics rules. In an nod towards transparency, its reports and statements are published online — but they are virtually unusable. The Committee publishes documents in an unsearchable PDF format, spreads them out over of 24 pages, and …
Budget Control Act of 2011 (Engrossed Amendment House – EAH)[S.365.EAH]. Pub. L. No. 112-25, 140 Stat. 240 Sovereign Default: Putting the United States Debt-Ceiling Debate in Context – Why Self Help Is the Only Option: “Justia columnist and U. Washington law professor Anita Ramasastry provides important background on the United States debt ceiling debate, explaining …
EPIC: “The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to approve a bill that will require Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to retain data on every customer to allow the government to identify and track their online activity for one year. EPIC Director Marc Rotenberg testified against the bill at the subcommittee hearing, and his arguments were …
Via FearLess: “…Earlier this week, President Obama called on Americans to reach out to Congress regarding the debt-ceiling debacle. And a lot of people made their voices heard. The day after Obama’s televised speech, the Capitol’s switchboard was overwhelmed with 40,000 calls per hour and email traffic swamped congressional servers to a near halt. We …
Deficit Reduction: $586.112 billion – “The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) and Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) have closely examined the defense budget for waste, fraud, and abuse and for programs in which there are cheaper yet effective alternatives or in which cancellation or delay poses an acceptable level of risk according to national security …
Federal Disaster Assistance Budgeting: Are We Weather-ready?, Testimony by Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, July 28, 2011 “The year 2011 has already established itself in the record books as an historic year for weather-related disasters and it is not over in fact hurricane season is just getting underway. Just past the years midpoint, we have already …
ACLU news release: “Today, were releasing a report, Drastic Measures Required: Congress needs to Overhaul U.S. Secrecy Laws and Increase Oversight of the Secret Security Establishment…we lay out the scope of the problem and analyze its unfortunate consequences for the operation of our government, for our national security, and for our democracy at large. The …
Library Journal: “On July 22, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2551, the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2012 by a vote of 252 – 159. Unless the Senate acts, the bill would reduce GPO’s budget for FY12 by 20 percent to $108.1 million. Within the GPO budget is the appropriation for the Office of Superintendent …
Department of Veterans Affairs: Issues Related to Real Property Realignment and Future Health Care Costs, by Lorelei St. James, director, physical infrastructure issues, before the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs. GAO-11-877T, July 27, 2011 Disability Insurance: SSA Can Improve Efforts to Detect, Prevent, and Recover Overpayments. GAO-11-724, July 27, 2011 Financial Education and Counseling Pilot …
Roll Call reported late in the evening on July 26, 2011 that Congressional websites and phone systems crashed after President Obama’s speech on the debt ceiling. So via USA.gov, the following links to help you communicate with your elected officials, contact your U.S. Senator contact your Representative in the U.S. House contact the President contact …
