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DOJ press release: “The Justice Department today announced that on March 6, 2007, it will monitor municipal elections in Azusa, Gardena, Paramount, and Rosemead, Calif., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act. Under the Voting Rights Act, the Justice Department is authorized to ask the Office of Personnel Management to send federal observers to …
“Taxpayers have until Tuesday, April 17, 2007 to file their federal returns with the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Federal tax returns are typically due on April 15, but in 2007, April 15 falls on a Sunday and April 16 is Emancipation Day, a legal holiday in the District of Columbia. Some printed IRS …
March 1, 2007 press release: “The Bush Administration today delivered to Congress the 2007 Trade Policy Agenda and the 2006 Annual Report of the President of the United States on the Trade Agreements Program. The report details the many benefits of trade for U.S. manufacturers, farmers, ranchers, service providers, workers, and consumers; reviews the Administrations …
From the transcript of the President’s Radio Address, released March 2, 2007: “As we work to improve conditions at Walter Reed, we’re also taking steps to find out whether similar problems have occurred at other military and veterans hospitals. So I’m announcing that my Administration is creating a bipartisan Presidential Commission to conduct a comprehensive …
Via FAS, Army Casualty Program 600-8-1, February 28, 2007 (135 pages, PDF): “This consolidated regulation prescribes policies and mandated tasks governing U.S. Army casualty operations, to include casualty reporting, casualty notification, and casualty assistance.” Related postings on casualty data from Iraq
Press release: “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued final guidance that describes FDAs current approach to communicating drug safety information, including emerging safety information, to the public. The guidance also includes the factors that influence when such information is communicated. Important drug safety information has the potential to alter the benefit/risk analysis …
CBO Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget Request for 2008, March 2, 2007. Budget Options, February 2007 (373 pages, PDF) Testimony on Economic Volatility – statement by CBO Director Peter R. Orszag before the Joint Economic Committee, February 28, 2007 AP: CBO says budget fails to balance by 2012 – “…Bush’s February budget plan would …
Crime Victim Compensation Program Grant Awarded to the Oklahoma Crime Victims Compensation Board, Audit Report GR-80-07-005, January 2007 Use of Equitable Sharing Assets by the Norwalk, Connecticut Police Department, Audit Report GR-70-07-002, February 2007
Department of Justice OIG Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act, Special Report, March 2007: “Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Patriot Act), Public Law 107-56, directs the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) to undertake a series of …
“The Public Papers of the Presidents, which is compiled and published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, began in 1957 in response to a recommendation of the National Historical Publications Commission. Noting the lack of uniform compilations of messages and papers of the Presidents before this time, the Commission …
Iraq: Elections, Constitution, and Government, Updated February 27, 2007 Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security, Updated February 22, 2007 Iran’s Nuclear Program: Recent Developments, Updated February 22, 2007 Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, Updated February 20, 2007 China-U.S. Relations: Current Issues and Implications for U.S. Policy, February 14, 2007
Review of Customs and Border Protection’s Agriculture Inspection Activities, OIG-07-32 (PDF, 58 pages) February 2007. February 28, 2007 Secretary Michael Chertoff, testified [text of his testimony] before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “With Congresss help, DHS has made measurable progress in achieving effective control of the border and improving the enforcement of our immigration laws …
