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CQPolitics.com announced the launch of a joint venture with C-SPAN, called CampaignNetwork.org. “The new site features video of C-SPANs election coverage and is home to the network’s voluminous library of debates in key races that are broadcast by television stations across the nation.”
Press release: “Members of Congress and their aides accepted more than $600,000 in free travel from pharmaceutical interests and their allies during a 5½-year period in which drug company profits climbed, in part due to federal legislation favorable to the industry, according to a new study by the Center for Public Integrity.” “The “Power Trips” …
“Job losses continue in industrial sectors across the U.S. with little response from the Federal Government, noted U.S. House Science Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN). Gordon and fellow Committee Democrats have sought to highlight this growing problem known as “offshoring” in an attempt to insure hard-working Americans are kept in the …
CBO Testimony on the Budgetary Impact of Current and Proposed Border Security and Immigration Policies, August 30, 2006 Related postings on immigration issues
Press release: “One year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the greater New Orleans area, local schools and colleges still have not received the leadership and resources they need from the federal government to truly recover, according to a new report released today by Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat on the House Education and the …
RL32812 – The Budget for Fiscal Year 2006, July 25, 2006, Philip D. Winters (29 pages, PDF).”In March 2006, the House passed a $92 billion supplemental appropriation (H.R. 4939). The funding, requested by the President, included $68 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, $19 billion for hurricane relief, and $4 billion for foreign …
Press release, August 28, 2006: “Nearly one year has passed since Hurricane Katrina’s landfall wrought havoc on the Gulf Coast, however, a new report issued by the Democratic Members on the U.S. House Committee Homeland Security finds that the nation is not much more prepared to effectively protect our communities and respond to catastrophic emergencies…The …
Free Congress Foundation: “Senator Barack H. Obama (D-IL)…teamed with Coburn, Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE), Ranking Member on the FFM Subcommittee, and Senator John S. McCain, III (R-AZ) to introduce S. 2590, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, the purpose of which is to provide citizens with a website, managed by the Office of Management …
Press release, Committee on Government Reform, Minority Office: “In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Bush Administration turned to private contractors to provide relief and recovery services worth billions of dollars. Now, one year later, it is apparent that taxpayers and the residents of the Gulf Coast are paying a steep price for the failure …
House Intelligence Committee Releases Report on Iranian Strategic Threat Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the U.S. — complete unclassified report (29 pages, PDF)
Press release: “Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today told a meeting of the Progress & Freedom Foundation that she has formed an Internet Access Task Force to examine issues being raised by converging technologies and regulatory developments, and to educate and inform the enforcement, advocacy and education initiatives of the Commission. “I also …
DHS Office of Immigration Statistics: Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: January 2005 (August 2006) (PDF – 7 pages). Related government documents: See also 2005 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics: “a compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., …
