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News release: “Organizations representing booksellers, librarians, publishers, and writers today launched the latest phase in their five-year campaign to restore the reader privacy safeguards that were stripped away by the USA Patriot Act. Since 2003, the Department of Justice has used its expanded power under the Patriot Act to issue more than 200 secret search …
Metro Potential in ARRA: An Early Assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, The Brookings Institution, March 30, 2009 “Americas national economic crisis is also a metropolitan crisis, because metropolitan areas are the true engines of the national economy. Home to 65 percent of the U.S. population, the largest 100 metropolitan areas alone account …
News release: “The Federal Communications Commission today begins the process of developing a national broadband plan that will seek to ensure that every American has access to broadband capability. In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 known as the stimulus package Congress charged the Commission with creating a national broadband plan. …
CDT: “A cybersecurity bill introduced April 01, 2009 in the Senate would give the federal government extraordinary power over private sector Internet services, applications and software. The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 would, for example, give the President unfettered power to shut down Internet traffic in emergencies or disconnect any critical infrastructure system or network on …
U.S. Strategy for Afghanistan: Achieving Peace and Stability in the Graveyard of Empires, Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia Testimony: Rep. Gary L. Ackerman, Chairman, House Subcommittee on the Middle East & South Asia Karin von Hippel, Ph.D., Center for Strategic and International Studies Seth G. Jones, Ph.D., Rand Anthony H. Cordesman, Ph.D., …
“The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today released a report on the progress of programs under the Committees jurisdiction funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 Transportation and Infrastructure Provisions Implementation Status State-by-state House/Senate comparison chart: Comparision of the FY 2010 highway contract authority apportionments …
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing April 2, 2009: Recovery and Investment Spending: Implementing a Bold Oversight Strategy, the Chairman Joseph Lieberman and Ranking Member Susan M. Collins discussed the urgency of making sure that proper controls are in place to deter waste, fraud, or mismanagement before stimulus money is distributed…”The two witnesses – …
Contingency Contracting: DOD, State, and USAID Are Taking Actions to Track Contracts and Contractor Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, GAO-09-538T, April 01, 2009 Defense Acquisitions: Measuring the Value of DOD’s Weapon Programs Requires Starting with Realistic Baselines, GAO-09-543T, April 01, 2009 High Speed Passenger Rail: Future Development Will Depend on Addressing Financial and Other Challenges …
A Review of CBO’s Activities in 2008 Under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, March 2009 “In 2008, the Congress and the President enacted 285 public laws. Nineteen contained at least one intergovernmental mandate as defined in UMRA, and 29 contained one or more private-sector mandates. In all, those new laws contained only 1 intergovernmental and …
March 10, 2009 – The United Arab Emirates Nuclear Program and Proposed U.S. Nuclear Cooperation March 10, 2009 – Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative: Legal Authorities and Policy Considerations March 10, 2009 – Medicare Primer March 10, 2009 – Filling U.S. Senate Vacancies: Perspectives and Contemporary Developments March 09, 2009 – Israeli-Arab Negotiations: Background, Conflicts, and …
An Assessment of the Potential Effects of the Reductions in Medicare’s Payment Rates for Physicians Called for Under Current Law, March 27, 2009 Letter to the Honorable John M. Spratt Jr.: “This letter responds to your request for an assessment of the potential effects of the substantial across-the-board reductions in Medicares payment rates for physicians …
News release: “Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday called for new legislation granting additional tools to address systemically significant financial institutions that fall outside of the existing resolution regime under the FDIC. A draft bill will be sent to Congress this week…The legislative proposal would fill a significant void in the current financial services regulatory …
