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October 30, 2007 Quarterly Report to Congress: “Two notable developments provide a backdrop for SIGIRs work this quarter. First, total relief and reconstruction investment for Iraq from all sourcesthe United States, Iraq, and international donorspassed the $100 billion mark. And second, total attacks on Coalition forces and Iraqis dropped to their lowest levels in over …
Supplement to: Energy Market and Economic Impacts of S. 280, the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007 (11/01/2007) “This paper responds to a September 18, 2007, letter from Senators Barrasso, Inhofe, and Voinovich, seeking further energy and economic analysis to supplement information presented in the Energy Information Administrations (EIA) recent analysis of S. 280, …
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing, The Role of Local Law Enforcement in Countering Violent Islamist Extremism, October 30, 2007. Link to Member Statements and witness testimony All Things Considered, November 9, 2007: “The Los Angeles Police Department is defending a plan to map Muslim communities in the city. Some critics are …
Cultural Challenges in Cross Border Mediation, by Vikrant Singh Negi Persuading Judges in Writing: Tips for Lawyers (And how technology can help), by Troy Simpson Competitive Intelligence on a Shoestring, by Susan Armstrong and Sabrina I. Pacifici E-Discovery Update: Discovery of Employee-Owned Computer Equipment, by Conrad J. Jacoby The Government Domain: Journalists and Government Information: …
“Chairman Waxman asks White House Counsel Fred Fielding to turn over more than 600 pages of documents relating to the activities of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff that are being withheld because they involve internal White House deliberations.”
Opening Statement: Senate Foreign Relations Business Considers the Convention on the Law of the Sea: Statement by Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE), Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Business Meeting to Consider the Convention on the Law of the Sea, October 31, 2007.
Press release: “The Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Committee Members today heard from NASA Administrator Dr. Michael Griffin on his agencys management of the National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service (NAOMS)…NAOMS has garnered headlines recently due to NASAs refusal to release data collected from an air safety …
“Since 2003, the non-partisan Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI) has issued annual scorecards analyzing the impact of domestic legislation on Americas current and aspiring middle class and evaluating Members of Congress based on their votes on this legislation…themiddleclass.org [is] a dynamic site that will update throughout the year as members of Congress vote …
“H.R. 2787, CJ’s Home Protection Act of 2007 would amend the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to require that weather radios be installed in all manufactured homes manufactured or sold in the United States.”
Press release: “Today, the Progress and Freedom Foundation released a new report on inadvertent filesharing by the authors of Filesharing Programs and “Technological Features to Induce Users to Share,” a groundbreaking analysis published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in March of 2007. This new report, Inadvertent Filesharing Sharing Revisited: Assessing LimeWire’s Responses …
Senate Intelligence Committee, S. Rpt. 110-209, Report to Accompany FISA Amendments Act of 2007.
Follow up to previous postings on the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey to be Attorney General, today’s press release provides additional documents: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) Friday released written questions and correspondence submitted for the record to Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey. Consistent with standard committee practice, Senators were given a week …
