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“Resources for victims of the hurricane, for legal aid and defender programs helping them, and for private attorney volunteers…State by state links to help you find a legal aid or pro bono lawyer, and other information for those affected by Hurricane Katrina in these areas: housing, insurance, health, financial aid and general.” [katrinalegalaid.org] (Amy Hale)
Federal Reserve Board press release, September 22, 2005: “The Federal Reserve Board announced on Thursday that beginning in 2006, the content of the Federal Reserve Bulletin will be published on the Board’s public web site on a continuing basis, as it becomes available. The quarterly paper version of the Bulletin will no longer be published. …
From CBO, A Guide to Understanding the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, September 2005 (32 pages, PDF) and The Risk Exposure of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, September 2005 (44 pages, PDF)
Press release: Vivísimo and MSN Search to Provide Search Backbone for Redesigned FirstGov Portal: “As part of the agreement, Vivísimo teamed with Microsoft’s MSN Search Web service to provide search results for the government domain. The MSN Search Web service includes extensive coverage of government documents in its index as well as a rich set …
MIT Online Forum: The Real ID Act of 2005: “This is a facilitated discussion of the problems and prospects related to the Real ID Act of 2005, enacted by Congress and signed by the President. For purposes of this online discussion, we are focused on the driver license and identity management aspects of the legislation, …
How the U.S. Senate Can Obtain Information From Former Federal Government Employees Who Are Now Supreme Court Nominees: A New, More Direct Approach that Won’t Require Fighting Over Records
“GPO is releasing three briefing papers and soliciting comments from the depository library community. Depository Selection: History and Current Practice is provided as background information for the other two papers. It provides an overview of the item number process in its current form. Depository Selection Mechanisms: New Model for the Selection of Online Titles proposes …
From 0 to 360 in Seconds How to Get Up to Speed with Thomson’s Firm360, by Donna Cavallini CongressLine by GalleryWatch.com: The American Town Meeting, by Paul Jenks The Government Domain: RSS and Uncle Sam, by Peggy Garvin FOIA Facts: The Importance of FOIA, Part 2, by Scott A. Hodes Burney’s Gadgets for Legal …
From a September 22, 2005 letter written by Rep. Henry A. Waxman to EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson: “…draft legislative language, which was prepared under the direction of political appointees within the agency…would allow a single person, the EPA Administrator, to waive the Clean Air Act, its implementing regulations, and state air pollution requirements approved …
Judicial Conference Supports Citing Unpublished Opinions Rule 32.1 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
The legislative history of the Postal Rate Commission enabling statute is available on the agency website. To locate it, look at the top of the homepage navigation bar, and click on ARCHIVES. This in turn will take you to this page, where the database hosting the legislative history is located. In addition to this resource, …
Press release: “Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein announced today several initiatives to aid in the recovery of original records in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana that have been affected by Hurricane Katrina…[he stated] the potential loss of information that directly affects the lives of people in these states is staggering. The …
