Category «Congress»

Cmte. on Homeland Security: Giving a Voice to Open Source Stakeholders: A Survey of State, Local and Tribal Law Enforcement

Giving a Voice to Open Source Stakeholders: A Survey of State, Local and Tribal Law Enforcement, Majority Staff Report, September 2008. “Open source intelligence products can and should be shared with appropriate Federal, State, local and tribal law enforcement, and the private sector because of their unclassified nature. Unfortunately, DHS has not effectively exploited this …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legislation

Baucus, Grassley Offer Tax Incentives for Clean Energy, Homegrown Jobs

Finance leaders seek to extend wind, solar, other incentives America’s energy, economic future: “Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today unveiled energy tax legislation that they intend to bring to the Senate for consideration this month. The Finance tax measures seek to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Legislation

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Issues Report on Major Banks Helping Non-U.S. Clients Dodge U.S. Dividend Taxes

News release: “At a Thursday hearing entitled, Dividend Tax Abuse: How Offshore Entities Dodge Taxes on U.S. Stock Dividends, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will examine how some financial institutions have designed, marketed, and implemented transactions to enable foreign taxpayers, including offshore hedge funds, to dodge millions of dollars of taxes on U.S. stock …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

CBO: Budgetary Issues Governing the Leasing of Oil and Gas Resources on the Outer Continental Shelf

Budgetary Issues Governing the Leasing of Oil and Gas Resources on the Outer Continental Shelf, September 10, 2008. Letter to the Honorable Nick J. Rahall II, Chairman – Committee on Natural Resources: “You asked for information about the budgetary implications of a recent administrative action and potential legislative changes in policies governing the leasing of …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

Homeland Security Cmte. Report Examines Administration's Performance on Requirements in Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007

“Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) announced the release of a report prepared by the Majority Staffs of the Committees on Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs. The report, entitled Wasted Lessons of 9/11: How the Bush Administration Has Ignored the Law and Squandered Its Opportunities to Make our Country Safer, examines the …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

U.S. Transportation Secretary Announces Steps to Delay Highway Trust Fund Shortfall

News release: “U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters today directed the Federal Highway Administration to take immediate steps to protect the solvency of the highway account of the Highway Trust Fund and called on Congress to act quickly to finally address this long-predicted problem…The Secretary said the legislation was needed now because Congress had …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legislation

Joint Economic Committee Report: U.S. Families Are in Worse Economic Shape Now Than in 2000

News release: “Senator Charles E. Schumer and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairman and Vice-Chair of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released statements in reaction to troubling new data from the U.S. Census Bureau on household incomes, health care coverage, and poverty. While wages have risen slightly from 2006 to 2007 and fewer families are without …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

New: Congressional Committee Prints Browse Feature

GPO Access: “To browse the current catalog of Congressional Committee Prints – available from 110th Congress, 1st Session (2007-2008) forward, click here. Links are included with each Congressional Committee print listed in the catalog, which retrieve the text of the corresponding document as an ASCII text or PDF file.”

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legislation

CRS: Journalists Privilege: Overview of the Law and Legislation in the 109th and 110th Congresses

Via FAS – CRS: Journalists Privilege: Overview of the Law and Legislation in the 109th and 110th Congresses, Updated July 29, 2008 “In Branzburg v. Hayes, 408 U.S. 665, 679-680 (1972), the Supreme Court wrote journalists claim that to gather news it is often necessary to agree either not to identify the source of information …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legislation

CDT's Dempsey to Be Nominated to Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

“President Bush…announced his intention to nominate CDT Vice President for Public Policy James X. Dempsey to serve a five year term on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency within the executive branch that will review the civil liberties impact of anti-terrorism policies and programs, providing advice on policy development and implementation …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents

Recent CRS Reports: Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector, Financing Issues and Economic Effects of American Wars

Via FAS: Terrorism and Security Issues Facing the Water Infrastructure Sector, July 28, 2008: “Damage to or destruction of the nations water supply and water quality infrastructure by terrorist attack or natural disaster could disrupt the delivery of vital human services in this country, threatening public health and the environment, or possibly causing loss of …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents

New Congressional Database of Lobbyist Campaign Contributions

Senate Lobbying Contributions Database House Lobbying Contributions Database “The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 requires lobbying registrants and individual lobbyists to file a semi-annual report of certain contributions, along with a certification that the filer understands the gift and travel rules of both the House and the Senate. These reports are due …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Legal Research, Legislation

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