Category «Congress»

Citizens Against Government Waste Released 2007 Congressional Pig Book

Press release: “Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released the 2007 Congressional Pig Book. The Pig Book is CAGW’s annual compilation of all the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2007 Pig Book identifies 2,658 pork projects at a cost of $13.2 billion in the Defense and Homeland Security Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2007. …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

FTC Provides Senate with Overview of Recent Antitrust Activities

Press release: “Providing Federal Trade Commission testimony today before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition, and Business and Consumer Rights, Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras said that to accomplish its competition mission, the agency has focused its enforcement and outreach efforts on sectors of the economy that have the greatest impact on consumers. …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents

C-SPAN Announces Copyright Policy Liberalization

Press release: “Advancing its longstanding mission of bringing government closer to the people, C-SPAN announced today two major initiatives designed to greatly expand citizen access to its online video of federal government activities, such as congressional hearings, agency briefings, and White House events…[thanks to Peggy Garvin] C-SPAN is introducing a liberalized copyright policy for current, …

Subjects: Congress, Copyright, Legal Research

House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Hearing: Protecting the Right to Vote

House Judiciary, Full Committee Hearing: “Protecting the Right to Vote: Election Deception and Irregularities in Recent Federal Elections” March 6, 2007. “Election intimidation and deception have become an unfortuante aspect of recent federal elections, threatening to undermine Americans’ confidence in a democratic government,” Conyers said. “This hearing will expose some of the problems that voters …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Bill Summary: The Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007

“On March 5, 2007, Reps. Wm. Lacy Clay, Todd Russell Platts, and Henry A. Waxman introduced H.R. 1309, the Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 2007. This legislation contains a dozen substantive provisions that will increase public access to government information by strengthening the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). On March 6, the Subcommittee on …

Subjects: Congress, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Judiciary Committee Hearing on Prosecutorial Independence

Follow-up to February 22, 2007 posting, New Report Shows No Precedent for Mass U.S. Attorney Firings, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on Part II–Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys? for Tuesday, March 6, 2007. Related news: Joint Statement of Former …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Legal Research

DOJ FOIA Post on Assessing Agency Efforts to Meet FOIA Requirements

House Subcommittee Hearing: “The State of the [Freedom of Information Act]: Assessing Agency Efforts to Meet FOIA Requirements” – On February 14, 2007, the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives, Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, in the House of Representatives held a hearing entitled “The State of the FOIA: Assessing Agency Efforts …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Freedom of Information, Legal Research

Justice Department to Monitor Elections in California

DOJ press release: “The Justice Department today announced that on March 6, 2007, it will monitor municipal elections in Azusa, Gardena, Paramount, and Rosemead, Calif., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act. Under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department is authorized to ask the Office of Personnel Management to send federal observers to …

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

Bipartisan Presidential Commission to Conduct Review of Walter Reed Conditions, and Hearings on Privatization of Hospital Services

From the transcript of the President’s Radio Address, released March 2, 2007: “As we work to improve conditions at Walter Reed, we’re also taking steps to find out whether similar problems have occurred at other military and veterans hospitals. So I’m announcing that my Administration is creating a bipartisan Presidential Commission to conduct a comprehensive …

Subjects: Blogs, Congress, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research

Hearing on Digital Future of the United States: Part 1 — World Wide Web

Testimony of Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, CSAIL Decentralized Information Group Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Before the United States House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet – Hearing on the “Digital Future of the United States: Part I — The Future of the World Wide Web”, March 1, 2007: “Digital …

Subjects: Congress, Internet, Knowledge Management

Preliminary Analysis of the President's Budget Request for 2008

CBO Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget Request for 2008, March 2, 2007. Budget Options, February 2007 (373 pages, PDF) Testimony on Economic Volatility – statement by CBO Director Peter R. Orszag before the Joint Economic Committee, February 28, 2007 AP: CBO says budget fails to balance by 2012 – “…Bush’s February budget plan would …

Subjects: Congress, E-Government, Government Documents