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“Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Peter T. King commented on the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) announcement to cut New York Citys Anti-Terrorism funding by nearly 40% from last year: As far as I’m concerned, DHS and the Administration have declared war on New York City, and I am going to fight this as hard …
Fact sheet – Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Improving Worksite Enforcement, June 1, 2006 President Discusses Comprehensive Immigration Reform, United States Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C., June 1, 2006 Related links and government documents: National Immigration Law Center: Senate Approves Sweeping but Flawed Immigration Reform Bill: The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006, May 30, 2006 National …
Press release: Grassley Questions Nonprofit Investment Groups Practices, Seeks IRS, SEC Comment [6 pages, PDF, includes text of letter from Grassley to National Association of Investors Corp. President as well as letter to etter to SEC Chairman Christopher Cox]
Following up on previous postings about Connecticut librarians gagged by the FBI’s use of the National Security Letter provision of the Patriot Act, news from an ACLU press conference on the identity of the librarians and their respective statements as follows: Barbara Bailey Peter Chase George Christian Janet Nocek
H.R. 3997, Data Accountability and Trust Act (DATA), May 26, 2006 – Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on May 24, 2006 H.R. 4127, Financial Data Protection Act of 2006, May 26, 2006 – Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the House …
Follow-up to previous postings on net neutrality, today the House passed the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act of 2006 [H.R. 5417], on a 20-13 vote.
Press release, May 24, 2006: “U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Arlen Specter (R-PA) today introduced legislation (22 pages, PDF) that would reaffirm that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is the exclusive means by which our government can conduct electronic surveillance of U.S. persons on U.S. soil for foreign intelligence purposes.”
H.R. 5439, Orphan Works Act of 2006
Sensenbrenner Announces Hearing Next Week on Constitutional Questions Raised by the FBI’s Unprecedented Saturday Night Raid of Congress May 25, 2006 update: Bush Orders FBI-Congress Documents Sealed
FTC Releases Report on its “Investigation of Gasoline Price Manipulation and Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Increases” The Federal Trade Commission Investigation of Gasoline Price Manipulation and Post-Katrina Gasoline Price Increases: A Commission Report to Congress (Spring 2006) – Text of the Commission Report, 222 pages, PDF Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Concerning the FTC …
ABC News This Week, May 21, 2006: “Gonzales also defended the NSA wiretapping program, insisting the Justice Department has not been reviewing the “content” in journalists’ phone records without a court order. The attorney general reiterated that the rights of a free press cannot trump national security but added, “I understand very much the role …
Press release, May 19, 2006: “U.S. Senators Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND), members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today introduced legislation that would preserve the open and democratic character of the Internet. The Internet Freedom Preservation Act (9 pages, PDF) would ensure that all content, applications and services are …
