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Press release: “In a letter to Attorney General Gonzales today [text of which is included in this release], Congressman Jerrold Nadler renewed his call for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program.When Congressman Nadler first called for a special counsel in December of last year, the Administration responded by …
Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia — hearing — STOP!: A Progress Report on Protecting and Enforcing Intellectual Property Rights Here and Abroad [Links to witness testimony] “The hearing will focus on the progress that the Administration’s Strategy targeting …
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence: Key Findings of Congressional Delegation to the Middle East, July 21-25, 2006
Fact Sheet on H.R. 5852 Committee on Homeland Security: “Today, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed H.R. 5852, The 21st Century Emergency Communications Act of 2006. The bipartisan bill, introduced by Reps. Dave Reichert (WA) and Bill Pascrell (NJ) originally part of the Committee on Homeland Security’s Hurricane Katrina Lessons Learned legislation, takes the necessary …
House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law — Oversight Hearing on “The 60th Anniversary of the Administrative Procedure Act: Where Do We Go From Here?” Opening Statement of Chris Cannon Chair, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.. The current federal regulatory process faces many significant challenges…Other problematic issues that have arisen over the …
FEMA Reorganization Legislation in the 109th Congress, July 7, 2006 (39 pages, PDF)
U.S. News reports that an ABA task force is planning to escalate the debate on the president’s use of signing statements to bypass laws passed by Congress. “In a report to be released Monday, the [task force] will recommend that Congress pass legislation providing for some sort of judicial review of the signing statements.”
House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Democratic Staff report, To Secure America: The 9/11 Commission’s Homeland Security Recommendations (33 pages, PDF), “provides a side-by-side comparison of 9/11 Commission recommendations, notable action taken to realize these recommendations, and critical efforts that must still be accomplished.”
Follow-up to recents postings on FISA that include House Intelligence Hearing on Modernizing FISA and Draft Agreement With White House on Domestic Surveillance Oversight, see this new article on the subject by Edward Lazarus: Why The “Compromise” Foreign Surveillance Wiretap Legislation Pending in Congress Is No Compromise: The Bill, and Senator Specter’s Strange Reversal on …
HR 3282, approved 16-15; HR 5766, approved 15-12; Side-by-side comparison of Sunset Commission Bills in the 109th Congress, by OMBWatch.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress, July 19, 2006 (30 pages, PDF).
House Intelligence to Hold Open Hearing on Modernizing FISA, July 19, 2006. Statement of Jim Dempsey, Policy Director, Center for Democracy and Technology, July 19, 2006 (13 pages, PDF) ABA President’s Testimony to House Intelligence Committee Hearing on Domestic Surveillance, July 19, 2006 Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy Executive Director Kim …
