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“Microsoft has teamed up with the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) to help increase Internet security through a month-long awareness-raising campaign that provides information and sponsored events for consumers, small businesses, educators, and families. This year, the National Cyber Security Awareness Month campaign begins October 1, 2005…Events for this year’s campaign include conferences and workshops …
October 11, 2005 – Text of Letter from Reps. Conyers, Harman, Lantos and Holt to U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald Concerning a Final Report on the CIA Leak Investigation (PDF) “We write to seek your assurance that, upon completion of your long running investigation into the leak of a CIA operative’s name, you will submit a …
Follow-up to previous postings on Bush administration violations of the propaganda policy, this press release today from Sen. Lautenberg: “The Inspector General of the Department of Education has informed United States Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) that he has referred the investigation into the payments by the Bush Education Department to journalist Armstrong Williams to …
Press release: Specter-Leahy Release Questionnaire On Nomination Of Harriet Miers To Be Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court, October 12, 2005. See also U.S. Senate Asks Miers If She Made Promises on Court Rulings
Updates to my September 30, 2005 posting, GAO Determines Bush Administration Violated Propaganda Policy Related references: S.967, A bill to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to ensure that prepackaged news stories contain announcements that inform viewers that the information within was provided by the United States Government, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Sen Lautenberg, …
Gasoline Prices, New Legislation and Proposals, Updated October 5, 2005 (14 pages, PDF).
From the Senate Democratic Policy Committee, a trio of reports related to the federal government response to Katrina, released on October 7, 2005: Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina Falls Short: A Timeline of Key Events Democrats Stand United in Support of Hurricane Katrina Survivors, Offer Plans to Provide Immediate Assistance Republican Oversight Failures Demonstrate Need …
IBM’s Chief Privacy Officer Harriet Pearson is quoted today as pledging her company will not use genetic information to determine employment, or health care benefits for current employees. Related references: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2005 (H.R. 1227) Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2005 (S. 306)
Press Release: Mayors Outraged by Unprecedented Congressional Vote to Prohibit Loan-Forgiveness In Disaster Relief Bill
H.R. 3910 – To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to require individuals to present a government-issued photo identification as a condition of voting in elections for Federal office, to prohibit any individual from tabulating votes in an election for Federal office unless the individual has been subject to a criminal background check, …
From the ALA Office of Government Relations today: “Six important business organizations (including the United States Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and The Financial Services Roundtable) wrote to Senator Specter expressing “support for reforms to Sections 215 and 505 of the Patriot Act which allow the federal government to require voluminous and …
A Glossary of Terms Used in the Federal Budget Process, GAO-05-734SP, September 1, 2005, released October 5, 2005 (182 pages, PDF).
