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Press release: “The nation’s food supply is at risk, as are the regulatory systems that oversee the nation’s drug and device supplies, according to a subcommittee of the FDA’s Science Board in a report…presented today. The subcommittee attributes the deficiencies to soaring demands on the FDA; and resources that have not increased in proportion to …
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: “White House objections are preventing Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald from providing the Oversight Committee with records from interviews of White House officials taken during his investigation into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilsons identity.” Documents and Links Letter to Attorney General Mukasey July 16, 2007: Letter …
GPO Access: “Named after Senate Parliamentarian Emeritus Floyd M. Riddick, this Senate document contains the contemporary precedents and practices of the Senate. An appendix contains suggested forms for various procedures, e.g., offering motions or filing conference reports. It is updated periodically by the Senate Parliamentarian. More than one thousand precedents have been researched, analyzed, and …
House Government and Oversight “Chairman Waxman today released a draft of an internal FDA guidance that would allow drug companies to use journal articles to promote potentially dangerous uses of drugs and medical devices without prior FDA review and approval.” Letter to FDA Commissioner von Eschenbach from Chairman Waxman: “I have obtained a copy of …
“To celebrate the one-year anniversary of FedSpending.org, OMB Watch Nov. 29 released a new and improved version of the website. The new version includes a complete FY 2006 data set for both contracts and federal assistance spending. The upgraded site also incorporates major functionality improvements, including the addition of a mapping feature on all searches, …
Follow up on previous postings on U.S. Attorney firings, today’s press release: “Taking the next step to enforce subpoenas that the White House has refused to heed, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Thursday ruled that White House claims of executive privilege and immunity in the Senates investigation of the mass firings of U.S. …
Press release: “The Treasury Department today sent to Congress a Congressionally mandated report on three international tax issues. The Report to the Congress on Earnings Stripping, Transfer Pricing and U.S. Income Tax Treaties (108 pages, PDF) describes current issues regarding U.S. earnings stripping rules, transfer pricing rules, and the misuse of income tax treaties to …
U.S. Army News release: “The Army announced Nov. 28 that it has taken initial steps to plan for reduced operations at all Army bases while the congressional review continues on funding for operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and requirements associated with the Global War on Terror. With no funds provided for GWOT requirements since the beginning …
Press release: “Late Tuesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won the speedy release of telecom lobbying records from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The agency was ordered to comply with a new December 10 deadline — in time for the documents to play a role in the congressional debate over granting …
“In a letter to the EPA Assistant Administrator for Water, Chairman Waxman discloses that documents the Committee has received raise new questions about whether EPA is effectively monitoring a 2003 Memorandum of Agreement intended to eliminate the injection of diesel fuel into underground sources of drinking water. The oil and gas industry has had a …
PBS NOW, Big Oil, Big Influence: “During the time that Bush and Cheney, both of whom are former oil executives, have been in the White House, the oil and gas industry has spent $393.2 million on lobbying the federal government. This places the industry among the top nine in lobbying expenditures. The industry has also …
2007 Report to Congress of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission, November 2007 (364 pages, PDF) “The year-long study offers 42 recommendations for congressional action. The book-length report cites Chinese progress in certain areas but describes many alarming trends, including a retreat by China from market-based economic principles, the growth of Chinas information control regime, …
