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“The President’s State of the Union Address was printed in the Congressional Record dated Tuesday, January 31, 2006, on pages H15-19.” Copies of this address, as well as previous addresses given by President Clinton and by President George Herbert Walker Bush are available via GPO Access, in both HTML and PDF formats. C-SPAN has an …
Press release: “For the first time, the National Archives website now includes a new Today’s Document feature, viewable online at www.archives.gov, highlighting a specific document, record or photo from the holdings of the National Archives relating to the current day, and/or current exhibitions and programs at the National Archives. This new feature – available on …
Press release: “President George W. Bush will deliver the annual State of the Union Address to a Joint Session of Congress, Tuesday, January 31, 2006. The Department of State will provide live audio streams of the State of the Union Address at 9:00 pm EST (0200 GMT) in the following languages: English, Arabic, Farsi, Bahasa …
Press release: “The new beta versions of Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer are open and customizable, with new features that enable users to customize their search experience and share information with friends…The new versions of Google Toolbar now offer customizable buttons, online bookmarks, enhanced search features, new sharing capabilities, and an open API. Google Toolbar …
GPO Releases 21st Century Edition of Historical Reference Directory House Document No. 108-222, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 – 2005
Efficient Process or “Chilling Effects”? Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Summary Report, Jennifer M. Urban, Director, Intellectual Property Clinic, University of Southern California and Laura Quilter, Non-Resident Fellow, Samuelson Clinic, University of California, Berkeley. [Links and Law]
In a shift from previous responses to and commentary about DOJ’s subpoena for Google’s search data, this New York Times article, In Case About Google’s Secrets, Yours Are Safe, recasts the probe with a focus on protecting corporate trade secrets, not preserving user privacy. Related commentary on Google: Imagining the Google Future – Top experts …
Via FAS: “The National Security Agency has 46 million pages of historically valuable classified records more than 25 years old that are subject to automatic declassification by the end of December 2006, according to a new NSA declassification plan….A copy of the new NSA declassification plan was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by …
In advance of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the NSA’s Surveillance Authority, February 6, 2006, the Committee’s Republican Chairman, Arlen Specter, sent a letter on January 24, 2006, to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, listing 15 questions for which he expected detailed responses. The following questions are in the …
“FirstGov.gov, in concert with private sector partners Vivísimo, Inc., and the Microsoft Corp., has launched the government’s most powerful search engine, one that: Vastly expands the search to include federal, state, local tribal and territorial documents; Increases the universe of government documents from 8 million to 40 million; Searches more efficiently and effectively by leveraging …
From CDT: “Less than a year after the Center for Democracy & Technology made Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports freely available to the public, members of the Internet community have responded by downloading more than 1 million of the informative documents from OpenCRS.com. CDT launched OpenCRS.com in June as a way to provide citizens access …
From askSam, a searchable version of the full text of all of the State of the Union Addresses from 1790-2005.
