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Following-up on my December 2, 2005 posting, DOJ Memo Determined Voting Rights Violations Resulting From Texas Redistricting, with two related articles documenting the administration response to the controversy: from today’s Washington Post, Staff Opinions Banned In Voting Rights Cases. and a December 8 article from the Dallas Morning News, Voting-rights friction building inside Justice. According …
The USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future has released the 2005 Digital Future Report ($). The report highlights are available free (19 pages, PDF), and note an increased use of the Internet for political campaigns, the continued popularity of email, and a significant expansion in the use of broadband access to the Internet. …
ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline, Volume 14, Number 121, December 8, 2005. “House and Senate negotiators reached an agreement on Thursday, December 08, 2005, to extend the USA PATRIOT Act. The agreement would extend for four years – until 2009– Sec. 215 of the PATRIOT Act’s — permitting secret warrants for books, records …
National Summit on Competitiveness, Investing In U.S. Innovation, December 6, 2005 (8 pages, PDF).
Press release: “The Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent [a] letter to Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito seeking more information relating to his nomination to be Associate Justice. In their letter, Senators have asked Judge Alito to provide information omitted from the questionnaire, including material that is publicly available. Judge Alito submitted his …
DOJ’s Semiannual Report to Congress: April 1, 2005 — September 30, 2005, Report prepared by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General. HTML Version PDF Version
News reports this afternoon on the compromise reached by the House and Senate on Patriot Act reauthorization include the strong caveat that not all Senators are satisfied (see statements as follows, from Leahy and Feingold), and opposition continues (specifically from the so-called gang of six). Although 16 provisions will now sunset in four as opposed …
The text of H.R. 4437 A section by section summary November 17, 2005: “the House Homeland Security Committee approved comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to address security problems across U.S. borders.” H.R. 4312, the Border Security and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2005. Information on the Homeland Security Committee’s provisions from H.R. 4312.
“In a letter to Chairman Davis, Rep. Waxman asks the Chairman to explain his rationale (letter, 4 pages, PDF) for rejecting requests to investigate the leak of classified information involving CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and contract abuses at the Department of Homeland Security, while directing the Committee to look into a leak of classified …
Press release: “Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued the Department of the Interior (DOI) over its failure to provide requested documents related to Jack Abramoff and the Indian gaming scandal…In the midst of one of the largest government corruption scandals ever, the Department of Interior has decided to simply ignore federal …
Today the Washington Post launched a news website, The U.S. Congress Voters Database, that allows users to browse data from the 102nd Congress (1991) to the 109th Congress (present). A search engine and other features will be forthcoming. “This site offers an RSS feed for every current member of Congress, so you can get notified …
AP: GOP Wants to Create Secretive Gov’t Agency S. 1873 – A bill to prepare and strengthen the biodefenses of the United States against deliberate, accidental, and natural outbreaks of illness, and for other purposes. [Specific language as follows: “Information that relates to the activities, working groups, and advisory boards of the BARDA shall not …
