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Prepared Statement of Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) Regarding the Finance Committee Investigation of Avandia, November 15, 2007: “We place a great deal of trust in pharmaceutical companies to make safe and effective products.The health of millions of Americans, from young children to retirees, depends on the careful work of these drug manufacturers. Today, Senator Grassley …
Lobbying Disclosure, Office of the Clerk: “The Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Secretary of the Senate are pleased to advise you of the following new lobby report filing procedures resulting from the passage of the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-81), which amends the Lobbying Disclosure …
Conference Report to Accompany H.R. 3074 – Transportation and Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Bill, 2008 Text and Joint Explanatory Statement (534 pages, PDF) Rule, Committee Report, and roll call votes
U.S. Government Accountability Office: Performance and Accountability Report, Fiscal Year 2007. GAO-08-1SP, November 15, 2007 Testimonies Aviation Security: Vulnerabilities Exposed Through Covert Testing of TSA’s Passenger Screening Process, by Gregory D. Kutz, managing director, and John W. Cooney, assistant director, forensic audits and special investigations, before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. GAO-08-48T, …
CBO’s Economic Forecasting Record: 2007 Update, November 2007 (48 pages, PDF) CBO Testimony, Statement of Peter R. Orszag, Director. Costs of Reprocessing Versus Directly Disposing of Spent Nuclear Fuel before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, November 14, 2007 : “CBO’s analysis compares the cost of two fuel-cycle alternatives for the …
Congressional Directory 110th Congress, 2007-08: “Presents short biographies of each member of the Senate and House, listed by state or district, and additional data, such as committee memberships, terms of service, administrative assistants and/or secretaries, and room and telephone numbers.”
Press release: “U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Linda M. Springer today released the report titled Employment of Veterans in Federal Government: Fiscal Year 2006, which demonstrates a small increase in the number of armed forces veterans working for the Federal government. The report shows increases in both the number of veterans employed and …
Google Public Policy Blog: “Google has been working to make publicly available government information more accessible to the public. We’re doing so by helping government agencies implement the Sitemap Protocol, a technical standard that makes it easier for search engines to crawl and index pages on a website…The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee…[reported …
From speech delivered by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, November 14, 2007: “Because monetary policy affects spending and inflation with a lag, policy decisions must be based on an assessment of medium-term economic prospects. Thus, the Committee cannot fully explain its policy decisions without sharing its economic outlook with the public and …
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: “The Committee held a hearing to assess the performance of State Department Inspector General Howard J. Krongard following a series of allegations that the Inspector General halted investigations, censored reports, and refused to cooperate with law enforcement agencies. Witness: The Honorable Howard J. Krongard, Inspector General, U.S. Department …
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: “An undercover GAO investigation of airport security checkpoints succeeded in passing through TSA screening checkpoints undetected with liquids and other materials that could be combined to make a dangerous improvised explosive device.” Testimony Before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, United States Government Accountability …
November 13, 2007: “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) will join Joint Economic Committee (JEC) Chairman Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), and JEC Vice Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) today released a new report exposing the hidden costs of the war in Iraq. The Joint Economic Committee report investigates the …
