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News release, March 7, 2008: “Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, D-Mich., and senior Committee Member John Warner, R-Va., today asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review Iraqi oil revenues and determine how much money the Iraqi government has contributed to security and reconstruction efforts in the country. The senators voice concern that …
“The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing titled, Executive Compensation II: CEO Pay and the Mortgage Crisis on Friday, March 7, 2008. The hearing examined the compensation and retirement packages granted to the CEOs of three corporations deeply involved in the current mortgage crisis. This was the Committees second hearing on executive …
News release: March 6, 2008 “Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Chairman of the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released an investigative report entitled Report on the August 6, 2007 Disaster At Crandall Canyon Mine. The report discusses the findings of Chairman Kennedy’s investigation into the events leading up to the mine …
Electronic Frontier Foundation: “Three powerful House Commerce Committee Chairmen strongly urged their colleagues Thursday to defer acting on requests for retroactive immunity and to demand more information from the White House and the telecommunications companies in the wake of disclosures by another whistleblower that the government apparently has been granted an open gateway to customer …
News release: “The Bush Administration Monday delivered to Congress the 2008 Trade Policy Agenda and the 2007 Annual Report of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program. The report highlights the Administrations 2007 accomplishments of opening new markets, developing and implementing new policies, and enforcing U.S. trade agreements to ensure trade …
American Forces Press Service: “China not only is a rising international economic power, but also is a rising military power with new and developing capabilities that have global implications, according to the 2008 China Military Power Report released today. The annual report mandated by Congress analyzes Chinas military development and strategy and says that the …
February 28, 2008 – The D.C. Circuit Rejects EPA’s Mercury Rules: New Jersey v. EPA February 28, 2008 – Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Issues and Arguments February 27, 2008 – Consumer Product Safety Commission: Current Issues February 27, 2008 – The Credit Card Market: Recent Trends, Funding Cost Issues, and Repricing Practices February 26, 2008 – …
Committee on Government Oversight and Reform press release: “Today Chairman Henry A. Waxman released a new report: The Administrations Medicaid Regulations: State-by-State Impacts. The report details the state-by-state impacts of seven regulations issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) that would make major, wide-ranging changes in Medicaid, the nations largest low-income health …
Medicare Payment Advisory Commission Report to the Congress: Medicare Payment Policy, March 2008 (379 pages, PDF). “The report contains five chapters: The first chapter provides context for the chapters that follow by documenting the rise in Medicare and total health care spending as a share of the economy. The report then assesses payment adequacy and …
News release: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement February 29, 2008 in response to a letter she received late this afternoon from U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey stating that the Administration is refusing to enforce contempt of Congress citations against former White House Counsel Harriet Miers and White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten: …
“New documents released by House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Waxman identify critical and major deficiencies in the construction of the new U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, raising questions about the decision of the State Department to certify in December that the Embassy compound was substantially complete. Documents and Links Letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza …
Center for Democracy and Technology: “Efforts to make Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports more accessible to the public received another boost today from Sen. Joe Lieberman, (ID-Conn.), who asked that a complete system be crafted that is readily accessible to the public. Currently, making the reports public is a time intensive task handled by congressional …
