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OMBWatch: “Nonprofit groups spoke out today against sunset proposals now being pushed by House conservatives. The proposals could create a single unelected commission to review every federal program, and would mandate that all federal programs automatically “sunset”–completely cease–after a fixed period, unless Congress intervened.” Read the letter to Congress Learn more about sunset proposals EPIC: …
Press release: “The World Factbook 2006 is now available on the Central Intelligence Agency Web site. The World Factbook remains the CIA’s most widely disseminated and most popular product, now averaging almost 6 million visits each month.” Download page
Reuters, via Washington Post: Pentagon Says Improper Data in Security Database
Telecommunications: Weaknesses in Procedures and Performance Management Hinder Junk Fax Enforcement, Full-text GAO-06-425, April 5, 2006. Highlights. “FCC has procedures for receiving and acknowledging the rapidly increasing number of junk fax complaints, but the numbers of investigations and enforcement actions have generally remained the same. In 2000, FCC recorded about 2,200 junk fax complaints; in …
The Office of Professional Responsibility Can Do More to Effectively Identify and Act Against Incompetent and Disreputable Tax Practitioners Report, prepared by the Department of the Treasury Office of the Inspector General, March 31, 2006. (43 pages, PDF) “The overall objective of this review was to determine whether the IRS has an effective process to …
USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005: A Legal Analysis (74 pages, PDF): “This report describes the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (the Act) and, where appropriate, discusses the modifications to law made by the USA PATRIOT Act Additional Reauthorizing Amendments Act of 2006.”
DOD press release, April 3, 2006: “The Defense Department today released hundreds’ more pages of unredacted detainee hearing transcripts taken at the U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, a senior Pentagon official said here today. DoD spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters the newly released documents included 2,000 pages of detainee administrative review board transcripts …
“The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) today launched a unique new website providing extensive information about one of most important and politically sensitive subjects in America today — immigration control… The purpose of the site…is to provide the American people, Congress, immigration groups, reporters and others with the authoritative information they need to judge the …
House Report Report 109-382, March 2, 2006. Referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed. Directing the Attorney General to Submit to the House of Representatives All Documents In the Possession of the Attorney General Related to Warrantless Electronic Surveillance of Telephone Conversations and Electronic Communications of Persons in the United States Conducted …
Press release, April 3, 2006: “The European Commission is today publishing a study which examines the scientific publication system in Europe. Scientific publication ensures that research results are made known, which is a pre-condition for further research and for turning this knowledge into innovative products and services. Scientific publication is also an important part of …
“The European Competition Network – the European Commission together with the national competition authorities in the EU has launched a website providing businesses, their advisors, and citizens with information about antitrust enforcement, annual reports and background documents about the Network. The ECN website will inter alia provide one-stop access to news releases from all …
Following up on my February 20, 2006 posting, Report on the Response to Hurricane Katrina, today GPO made available a PDF copy of the Final Report. Congressional Reports: H. Rpt. 109-377 A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina. The Select …
