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Follow up to postings on FDA’s review of cloned animal safety issues, via Chews Wise, Top U.S. Dairy Bans Milk From Clones: “…The top U.S. dairy company, Dean Foods, has adopted a policy statement banning milk from cloned cows…” [Charles Margulis, Center for Food Safety]
“OpenStreetMap is an free and open collaborative map of the entire world. We gather GPS tracks and draw maps over them, in an editable wiki style database. And recently we added aerial imagery to our toolbox, thanks to Yahoo!, so dense urban areas and remote locations can be mapped just by tracing streets in the …
Pew Research Center Survey – Voters Remain In Neutral As Presidential Campaign Moves Into High Gear – Republicans Lag in Engagement and Enthusiasm for Candidates, Released: February 23, 2007 “with more candidates than usual, but many people appear not to have noticed. Americans are no more likely to say they have given the presidential campaign …
Interim Review of Contract Costs, Clearbrook, LLC, FEMA Disaster No. DR-1603-LA, Report No. DD-07-06 (PDF, 6 pages), February 2007.
Follow up to February 21, 2007 posting, DHS Announces Traveler Redress Inquiry Program, today Rep. Henry Waxman, Chair of Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to TSA requesting “explain why a TSA website that collected Social Security numbers and personal information from the public operated for several days without basic security measures.”
Federal Computer Week reported that “sixteen agencies complied with the Office of Management and Budget’s request to post their information technology business cases online.” Direct links to the data by agency, as follows: Department of Commerce business cases Department of Education business cases Department of Labor business cases Department of Housing and Urban Development business …
“Access to online Texas county clerk public record databases has been shut down after the Attorney General issued an opinion on Feb. 21 clarifying that clerks must redact social security numbers from documents before releasing copies of them and/or posting them online. Texas Attorney General opinion GA-0519 is here…and is the cause for this removal. …
Press release: “On February 22, 2007, OMB Watch released a new version of FedSpending.org, free, searchable database of federal government spending, that includes updated data for FY 2006, improved navigation, upgraded features, and an application programming interface (API) for advanced users. Learn more about the new features in About This Site.”
CRS Report, RS22605, FY2008 Budget Documents: Internet Access and GPO Availability, February 13, 2007: “This report provides brief descriptions of the budget volumes and related documents, together with Internet addresses, Government Printing Office (GPO) stock numbers, and prices to obtain these publications. It also tells how to find locations of government depository libraries, which can …
CRS Report, RS22606, Mergers and Acquisitions: Primer on Economic Considerations in the FTC and DOJ Horizontal Merger Approval Process, February 15, 2007. “The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly enforce antitrust laws that cover mergers and acquisitions of large companies. Initially, firms seeking a merger notify the agencies of their intent …
Press release: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today its intent to propose, as part of the forthcoming Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), significant flexibility regarding travel documents required for U.S. and Canadian children as part of WHTI requirements for U.S. land and sea border entry in 2008. …
Press release: “Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and Subcommittee Chairwoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA) released a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report [U.S. Attorneys Who Have Served Less than Full Four-year Terms, 1981-2006, February 22, 2007] showing the recent firing of seven U.S. Attorneys is unprecedented. Conyers and Sanchez requested the study, which found …
