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Press release: “On September 22, 2006, the President signed the United States’ instrument of ratification for the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime. Today, the United States became a party to the Convention upon deposit of the instrument of ratification at the headquarters of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. The Convention will enter …
Press Release, September 29, 2006: “The Commerce Department announced it has signed a Joint Project Agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to continue the transition of the coordination of the technical functions relating to the management of the Internet Domain Name and Addressing System to the private sector.” Joint Project …
Conference Report (H. Rept. 109-699) to HR 5441 as agreed by the House and Senate conferees. House Committee on Appropriations press press release, September 25, 2006: “The conference agreement provides $34.8 billion for operations and activities of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in fiscal year 2007, an increase of $2.3 billion above fiscal year …
House Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation and the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia, joint hearing, September 28. 2006: Hezbollah’s Global Reach. Statements (PDF): The Honorable Edward R. Royce, The Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Frank C. Urbancic, Jr., Mr. John Kavanagh, Eitan Azani, Ph.D., Mr. Christopher Hamilton, Mr. …
D-2006-123 Program Management of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon Increment I (09/29/2006) View Summary Only (Project D2006-D000AE-0154.000) “This special version of the report has been revised to omit attorney client privilege, predecisional, and source selection sensitive data. The full report is For Official Use Only (FOUO). To request a copy of the full report, file …
Preliminary annual report on U.S. Portfolio Holdings of Foreign Securities at End-Year 2005, September 29, 2006.
Press release: “FDA is announcing today that all spinach implicated in the current outbreak has traced back to Natural Selection Foods LLC of San Juan Bautista, California. This determination is based on epidemiological and laboratory evidence obtained by multiple states and coordinated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Natural Selection Foods issued a …
Press release: “The Federal Trade Commission today told the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations that protecting the privacy of consumers’ telephone records requires a multi-faceted approach. Joel Winston, Associate Director of FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, said that coordinated law enforcement efforts targeting pretexters, steps by telephone …
Early Release of Selected Estimates Based on Data From the January-March 2006 National Health Interview Survey, (Released 9/28/2006)
Press release: “Congressman Barney Frank yesterday wrote to the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and representatives of the credit reporting industry asking that they look into the numerous complaints from consumers about access to credit reports and fraud alerts.” [text of letter is included in this release]
Protection of Security-Related Information, September 27, 2006 (via FAS, 29 pages, PDF) Related postings on use of various designations for government documents to restrict public access
Presidential Signing Statements: Constitutional and Institutional Implications,” September 22, 2006 (via FAS, 30 pages, PDF). Related postings on signing statements
