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Via TMP Cafe, this link to the Dept. of Homeland Security National Response Plan (Base Plan, 114 pages, PDF and the full version, 426 pages, PDF), implemented December 2004: “The National Response Plan establishes a comprehensive all-hazards approach to enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents. The plan incorporates best practices …
New York Times Magazine, September 4, 2005: Political Science Related references: Questions Surround Editing of U.S. Report on Global Warming Science Advisor to President Works Amidst Controversy
Statement by President Bush during an interview with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, September 1, 2005: “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did appreciate a serious storm but these levees got breached and as a result much of New Orleans is flooded and now we’re having to deal with it …
Press release September 3, Senator Mary Landrieu: Landrieu Implores President to “Relieve Unmitigated Suffering;” End FEMA’s “Abject Failures” “”But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on …
The United States Code: 2000 Edition, Supplement 2, is now available on GPO Access. Browse and search features are available.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings for Judge Roberts will be available online from the U.S. Government Printing Office. This website also provides access to Supreme Court Nomination Hearings transcripts (1971 – forward).
White House press release: President Outlines Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts “The vast majority of New Orleans, Louisiana is under water. Tens of thousands of homes and businesses are beyond repair. A lot of the Mississippi Gulf Coast has been completely destroyed. Mobile is flooded. We are dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in …
GPO’s “What’s New” website updates which provide links to full-text versions of significant government documents, is now also available via an RSS feed.
From GPO Access: “A number of Federal depository libraries were in the path of Hurricane Katrina. While it is too early to gauge the impact of this horrendous storm on those institutions, GPO is committed to helping our depository partners recover in any way that we can.” Federal Depository Libraries: Hurricane Katrina Aftermath
Press release: “The American Civil Liberties Union today sent a letter to ranking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing “deep concern” over Supreme Court nominee John Roberts’ record and urging the Senate to fully consider his legal and judicial philosophy, his approach to decision-making, and his possible impact on the role of the court …
Data Mining: Agencies Have Taken Key Steps to Protect Privacy in Selected Efforts, but Significant Compliance Issues Remain, GAO-05-866, August 15, 2005. Highlights. “The federal government’s increased use of data mining since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, has raised public and congressional concerns…The five data mining efforts we reviewed are used by federal …
Press release: “Today the Ronald Reagan Library is releasing an additional 175 pages from its re-review of the John Roberts’ records restricted from release on August 15, 2005. Of the pages being released today, 148 pages are being released in part and 27 pages are being released in their entirety. This material was originally withheld …
