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Press release: “One year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the greater New Orleans area, local schools and colleges still have not received the leadership and resources they need from the federal government to truly recover, according to a new report released today by Rep. George Miller (D-CA), the senior Democrat on the House Education and the …
RL32812 – The Budget for Fiscal Year 2006, July 25, 2006, Philip D. Winters (29 pages, PDF).”In March 2006, the House passed a $92 billion supplemental appropriation (H.R. 4939). The funding, requested by the President, included $68 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, $19 billion for hurricane relief, and $4 billion for foreign …
Press release, August 28, 2006: “Nearly one year has passed since Hurricane Katrina’s landfall wrought havoc on the Gulf Coast, however, a new report issued by the Democratic Members on the U.S. House Committee Homeland Security finds that the nation is not much more prepared to effectively protect our communities and respond to catastrophic emergencies…The …
USPTO press release, August 28, 2006: “To improve the tracking and disposition of amendments and requests for corrections to trademark applications submitted after publication, the Office is providing the following recommended procedures. Once an application has been approved for publication by the examining attorney, all amendments and requests for corrections are processed as amendments/corrections after …
CRS report, Detection of Explosives on Airline Passengers: Recommendation of the 9/11 Commission and Related Issues, updated August 9, 2006 (via FAS).
Audit of the National Urban Search and Rescue Response System, OIG-06-54 (PDF, 24 pages), August 28, 2006.
Free Congress Foundation: “Senator Barack H. Obama (D-IL)…teamed with Coburn, Senator Thomas Carper (D-DE), Ranking Member on the FFM Subcommittee, and Senator John S. McCain, III (R-AZ) to introduce S. 2590, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, the purpose of which is to provide citizens with a website, managed by the Office of Management …
LA Times (reg. req’d) EDITORIAL – Espionage — Not Just for Spies Anymore – “Bush administration and the courts are expanding the concepts of “leaking” and “secrecy” to affect normal citizens on the receiving end.”
“25 August 2006 – The European Commission adopted on 24 August 2006 a Recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation (PDF). The Recommendation aims at bringing out the full economic and cultural potential of Europes cultural and scientific heritage through the Internet. It is part of the Commission’s strategy …
“The European Commission regularly conducts residential surveys in order to understand how European households and individuals behave in the face of a permanently evolving offer of communication services. This Eurobarometer survey differs from previous surveys because the 2002 EU regulatory framework has been implemented in all Member States, the EU has enlarged to 25 Member …
CRS Report, Homeland Security Intelligence: Perceptions, Statutory Definitions, and Approaches – August 18, 2006.
Press release, August 24, 2006: “Rep. Waxman asks for details regarding the exclusion of evolutionary biology, a core component of the biological sciences, from the eligibility rules for the Department of Education’s new “National Smart Grant” program.” The National Science & Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grant(National Smart Grant)
