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Emergency Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Audit of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Award Process for a Contract With MDB, Inc. (A-04-06-01036), January 11, 2007. Emergency Response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Audit of National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ Award Process for a Contract With Organization Development Systems, Inc. (A-04-06-01034), January 11, …
Follow-up to January 10, 2007 posting, U.S. Postal Service: ‘Intelligent Mail’ Fully Operational by 2009, see today’s press release: “The U.S. Postal Service has achieved remarkable results and is better prepared than ever to help ensure a prosperous future for mail, according to a progress report on the organization’s transformation efforts. The 2006 Annual Progress …
Press release, January 11, 2007: “Congressman Tom Lantos (D-San Mateo, San Francisco) today introduced legislation to ensure that many of the genealogical records involving the families of former slaves in this country will be preserved, digitized and catalogued…Unlike most Americans, researching African-Americans family histories from the 19th Century has been hampered by the lack of …
“In January 2007, FirstGov.gov announced that it changed its name to USA.gov. We did it because you asked us to. Feedback from the public told us that we need a name that is easier to understand and remember.” The FAQ is here. It includes the following important statement: “There are about 5 million links to …
Press release, January 10, 2007: “Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for its failure to adequately respond to CREW’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents related to the destruction of Secret Service visitor record logs. On September 27, 2006, CREW filed a …
Press release: “Imagine a library filled with a million books, each 270 pages long. That’s how many historic FBI pages we declassified on December 31, in line with an executive order that now applies to the Bureau. “It’s unprecedented,” says David Hardy, chief of the Record/Information Dissemination Section in our Records Management Division. “To historians …
Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Admnistrative and Commmercial Law, Print No. 10, Interim Report on the Administrative Law, Process and Procedure Project for the 21st Century, December 2006. [NOTE: this document is 1446 pages long].
Press release: “Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Footnote, Inc. CEO Russell Wilding today announced an agreement to digitize selected records from the vast holdings of the National Archives. The 4.5 million pages that have been digitized so far are now available at http://www.footnote.com/nara.php.” Press release from OpenTheGovernment.org: “On January 10, 2007, the …
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Antitrust Division today announced that the latest in a series of joint public hearings designed to examine the implications of single-firm conduct under the antitrust laws will take place on January 30, 2007, in Berkeley, California, and on February 13, 2007, in Chicago, …
Independent Auditors’ Report On CBP’s FY 2006 Consolidated Financial Statements, OIG-07-19 (PDF, 82 pages), January 10, 2007.
The following documents were released by the White House on January 10, 2007: Highlights of the Iraq Strategy Review [comprising 11 summary briefing slides] Fact Sheet: The New Way Forward in Iraq Background Briefing by Senior Administration Officials Full Transcript of President’s Address to the Nation on Iraq, January 10, 2007
Press release: “The U.S. Postal Service® today presented its new vision to revolutionize business mail by using standardized intelligent barcodes, continuous mail tracking, and real-time feedback to business customers. These services, referred to as Intelligent Mail®, will be fully operational for all commercial mailers by 2009.”
