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Follow up to previous postings on private military contractors in Iraq, this State Department press release, October 5, 2007: “Secretary Rice has received an initial assessment of Blackwater operations in support of Embassy Baghdad from the first two team members. The balance of the team – General Joulwan and Ambassador Roy – will arrive in …
Government Technology: “After over two decades of close interaction with the technology researchers, developers and business industries in New York City, the Industrial and Technology Assistance Corporation (ITAC) has released a report regarding the nature and depth of the tech sector in NYC. According to Kunal Malhotra, director of legislation and budget to Council Member …
Nixon’s Library Now a Part of NARA – California Facility Will Hold All Documents and Tapes From a Half-Century Career in Politics, by James Worsham, NARA, Prologue, Fall 2007, Vol. 39, No. 3. “On July 11, 2007, the National Archiveswith the approval of Congressestablished the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in the private facility …
Press release, October 4, 2007: “Two conservation organizations, the Center for Biological Diversity and Turtle Island Restoration Network, filed a lawsuit today against Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne for failing to take into account the latest information on global warming in management decisions affecting polar bears, walrus, sea otters, and manatees. The suit, brought …
“DOepatents, the U.S. Department of Energy’s central collection of patent information, where research and development intersect with innovation and invention. This collection demonstrates the Department’s considerable contribution to scientific progress from the 1940s to today…This collection is growing as we continue to identify historic DOE patents, and to add ones recently issued. Currently, there are …
GPO: “Library Services and Content Management (LSCM) and volunteers from the Federal depository community worked to consolidate and update the Instructions to Depository Libraries and the Federal Depository Library Manual, including its supplements, into one online publication. All the chapters were reviewed by key stakeholders, including the Depository Library Council and the professional library associations. …
Inspection Report, The Consolidated Terrorism Watchlist Nomination Process at the Department of Energy, October 2007 (13 pages, PDF)
Press release, October 5, 2007: “The Inspector General of the Federal Communications Commission has released a report finding that the evidence did not substantiate allegations that two draft research reports of staff economists in the Commissions Media Bureau had been suppressed by senior managers at the Commission or that senior managers had ordered one of …
Cost of Prisons: Bureau of Prisons Needs Better Data to Assess Alternatives for Acquiring Low and Minimum Security Facilities, GAO-08-6, October 5, 2007 Financial Audit Manual: Volume 1, Exposure Draft, October 2007 – GAO-08-81G, October 1, 2007 Financial Audit Manual: Volume Two, Exposure Draft–October 2007 GAO-08-82G, October 1, 2007 General Services Administration: Improvements Needed in …
Press release: “Reps. John D. Dingell (D-MI), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Bart Stupak, Chairman of its Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today released a staff report entitled Food From China: Can We Import Safely? (11 pages, PDF). This report was compiled by Committee staff dispatched by Dingell and Stupak to …
Department of Commerce Office of Inspector General, U.S. Census Bureau Final Report – 2010 Census: Key Challenges to Enumerating American Indian Reservations Unresolved by 2006 Census TestEvaluation: OSE-18027 [49 pages, PDF]
The American Health Choices Planby Hillary Clinton, Free Searchable Version: “In September of this year Hillary Clinton posted online and spoke publicly about her plan for universal health care coverage. The plan, referred to as “American Health Choices” is now available, along with the full text of Hillary Clinton’s initial speech on the plan, in …
